{"data":{"ID":255,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351864190,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Design Thinking in Schools","Handle":"Design_Thinking_in_Schools","ShortDescription":"Teaching design thinking in schools trains students, teachers, and administrators to think outside the box and intertwine their knowledge to conceive innovative solutions towards the future of education. We'd like to share some examples of how our community collaborated to define, research, ideate, prototype, and implement their ideas.","Description":"Is design thinking worth it?\r\nHow can schools innovate?\r\nHow can education be agile?\r\n\r\nAt The School at Columbia University, we collaborated with designers who trained us how to embrace design thinking. They've outlined the following nine steps: \r\n\r\n1. Define the problem\r\n2. Research the problem \r\n3. Analyze and redefine the problem\r\n4. Ideate many solutions\r\n5. Prototype the solutions\r\n6. Refine the solutions\r\n7. Repeat as needed\r\n8. Choose the solution\r\n9. Implement the solution\r\n\r\nOver the years, our community of students, teachers, and administrators have each had experience working on a few long-term projects. Students redesigned a desk, a chair, and a locker. Faculty and administrators examined our school culture and sought to innovate how we integrate homework, recess, lunch, discipline, and grading. By working together and following the same principles, our population embraced a common language as they worked towards a common goal: define, research, ideate, prototype, implement.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We plan to bring materials that will help attendees define their own institutional problems and seek possible solutions.","Presenter":["Don Buckley","Karen Blumberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The School at Columbia University"],"PresenterEmail":["dbuckley@theschool.columbia.edu","kblumberg@theschool.columbia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}