Educated By Design with The Tech Rabbi
In his new book, Educated by Design, The Tech Rabbi Michael Cohen shares his journey to education through design, while providing useful tools and resources for the reader to help expand students’ belief in their own creative ability. Today on Vrain Waves, he shares many of these insights with us!
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3 Episodes on DesignDesigning Learning Spaces with Dr. Robert DillonThis week = Design Thinking with Michael CohenNext week = Leadership with DesignWhat is Design Thinking (01:27)Stanford d.school modelDivergent thinkingWhy for Design Thinking: To support self-efficacy so people realize their capacity to make an impact (03:04)“Everything around us has been designed so can be redesigned.”Collective Efficacy, effect size of 1.57 (03:36)Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (04:58)Educated By Design – Bad Idea Factory (05:45)Empathy – Define – Ideate – Prototype – TestCo Barry, CreatEdu – Airplane WarsPost it Note App (07:15)Design for fellow classmates (08:02)School Retool – Shadow a Student ChallengeThe Tech Rabbi (09:13) – Michael CohenISTE Keynote 2018@TheTechRabbi on Twitter, Instagram, FacebookEducated By Design bookEverybody has intrinsic creative ability (14:05)Functional fixedness (15:10)Daniel Pink Episode of Vrain Waves – his book DriveThe Candle Problem – Dunker’s Problem30 Circle ChallengeConnecting Education & Design (19:38)Design is about understanding the needs of others & then creating a solution2 Types of Designers; Fiver.com for logo development vs. Boutique customized designAdobe’s MAX ConferenceSubskills of Design (23:08)Improving in Empathy (25:14)Empathy Maps (Dave Grey, St Louis) Think – Do – Say – FeelKindness by the DozenDan Heath Episode (29:53)Entrepreneurship class – Survey / XeroxDivergent thinking & student choice at Elementary & Middle levels (33:47)Evaluate process vs. product / growth & reflectionHumility & Service to Others (37:37)Wrap Ups & Reflections (42:18)