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Extended Design Thinking

The core of this course is continuous active learning. This engages the students in participatory actions towards building knowledge out of experience. We have develop...

Active School, Building Design Thinking, Cognitive development, Design Thinking, Empathy-driven learning, Individual cognitive approach

The Teachers Guild

To catalyze creative leadership, The Teachers Guild builds off the methods and mindsets from the Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit. It’s a learner-centered approac...

Collaborative Learning, creative leadership, Design Thinking, Teacher Re-education

Designathon Works

Our mission is to unleash the creativity of 1 million children, so they become designers and changemakers of a better world. We work with children from regular environ...

Change Maker ED, Creativity, Cultural Exchange, Design Thinking, Innovation, Interdisciplinary, MakerEd, OECD, PBL, SDGs, Student Agency, Technology

Innovation Institute

Innovation Institute at Shanghai American School is a two-year interdisciplinary project-based learning program in high school wherein students grapple with a series o...

Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Innovative Thinking, Interdisciplinary, Project Based Learning

Lumineer Expeditions

Lumineer Expeditions are hands-on workshops where children get to dream up fantastical ideas and make them in our makerspace, purpose built and designed for kids. ...

Curriculum, Design Thinking, Ethics, Human and Humane Technology, Science education, STEM workshops

Maker Academy - Kidspire Vietnam

Maker Academy brings an equal educational opportunity, and re-designs a learning environment for Vietnamese orphan children. Using design thinking, project-based and p...

Blended Learning, Design Thinking, Global Citizenship, Makers Spaces, Orphan Children, Personalized Learning, Project Based Learning, STEAM, STEM

Inqui-Lab Foundation

By employing Design thinking in the classroom, we help students to tackle their problems with innovative solutions – building critical 21st century skills and making s...

21st Century Skills, Creativity, Design Thinking, Empathy-driven learning, Innovation, Learning By Doing, Problem solving, Self-led learning, social innovation

7DaysCircular is an interactive learning journey. The programme is unique to every school, co-created with teachers, entrepreneurs and companies to connect the school’...

Challenge, Change Maker ED, Circular Economy, Citizenship, Collaboration, Creativity, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Learning journey, Learning-through-play, Makers Spaces, Prototyping, Real Life School, Role models, Stakeholder Approach, Systems Thinking, Teamwork

dHive Design Studio

dHive is a network of innovation hubs where children design market ready products using locally available resources. As they get involved in design for social change, ...

Change Maker ED, Design Thinking, Empathy, product design, Student-led

Koulujen muotoilupolku

Muotoilupolku on perusmalli, jonka avulla voi soveltaa luovaa ongelmanratkaisua ja muotoilun menetelmiä opetukseen ja koulun yhteisölliseen kehittämiseen. Malli sopii ...

Design Thinking, Muotoilu, ongelmanratkaisu, Oppilaslähtöisyys, Yhteisöllisyys

Design Path for Schools

Design path is a basic method for solving problems creatively, teaching students to use design methods, and developing schools together with students. This method is s...

Community, Design, Design Thinking, Problem Based Learning, student-oriented pedagogy

A Cafeteria Designed For Me

Student centred cafeterias serving healthy, nutritious food in settings where students want to spend time.

Design, Design Thinking, Food Education, Health, Leadership, Learning Environment, Partnership, Student Voice

A freeform model-making system that allows students to physically explore designs and bring their architectural projects to life.

Architecture, Career Development, Design, Design Thinking, Engineering, Lesson plans, Problem solving, Project Based Learning, Real World Learning, STEM

Design for Change

Design for Change empowers students to be socially aware and proactive change agents in their community. Through undertaking self-directed community projects, children...

Character Education, Community, Design Thinking, Empathy, Global Citizenship, Inquiry Based Learning, Open Educational Resource, Project Based Learning, Real World Learning

A solution that empowers young people and gives them the opportunity to contribute to be involved in community solutions using a student designed app.

App, Democratic Thinking, Design Thinking, Game Based Learning, Outdoor, Research, Student Voice, Technology, Urban Development

Learning Space Design Lab (c) by Autens

A powerful workshop tool for collaboratively designing and redesigning learning environments based on how children learn, while transforming the shared pedagogical pra...

Co-creation, Design, Design Thinking, flexible learning, Flexible seating, Learning Environment, Learning Space design, Learning spaces, Project Based Learning, transformation, Workshop

Creatica Lab challenge communities to rethink education through hosting immersive, hands-on creation makerspaces that leverage interactive technology and innovative de...

Craftsmanship, Design, Design Thinking, Interdisciplinary, Learning By Doing, Robotics, Self Directed Learning, STEM, Workshop

Mutku Maker Space

The innovation transforms a school space into an environment that supports creative thinking and brainstorming. The space plays a part in design education, as well. Mu...

Creativity, Design education, Design Thinking, Learning Environment, Maker Culture, Problem Based Learning

Sisterhood raises awareness and develops a personal understanding of the positive impact being a confident young girl can make on her future success. We deliver creati...

Citizenship, Design education, Design Thinking, Positive Action, Project Based Learning, Real World Learning, social action, Social Justice, women empowerment, YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Design Thinking Through STEAM

Students in the Middle School are engaged in a STEAM program once per week that focuses them on solving real-world problems affecting them or those around them using d...

Creativity, Design Thinking, STEAM, Technology

Mpower Studio - Pittsburgh Obama Academy Makerspace

MPower Studio is a place full of endless opportunity to express creativity, to be innovative, to promote purposeful collaboration, and to be your best self. This high...

3D printing, Adaptable, Collaboration, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Equality, Global Citizenship, Global Connections, Innovation, laser cutting, Leadership Skills, MakerEd, Maker-mindset, Makerspace, Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning, STEAM, STEM, Student-led, Urban Development

This research-based learning space is a permanent exhibit inside the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. MAKESHOP is a drop-in environment where children and families mak...

Design Thinking, Informal Education, Interest driven learning, Makerspace, Museum Learning, Personalized Education, Personalized Learning, STEAM, STEM

Student Centric Education Design

Our students' needs exceed the scope of traditional high schools. We designed our schools to explicitly shift the use of time, space, curriculum, credit, tutoring, ins...

At-Risk Youth, Career Readiness, Civic Participation, College Dual Enrollment, Community Led, Design Thinking, Elevating Educators, Employability skills, Innovative Learning Environments, Innovative Small and Micro School, Learning Environment, Lifelong Learning, Opportunity Youth, Parenting Students, Personalized Learning, Secondary School, Student Centric Education Design, Student Re-engagement, Sustainability, Teen Parents, Trauma-Informed School Development, Unique Use of Funding, Workforce Development

Quests are real-world projects to master 21st-century skills. Usually lasting four- to six-weeks, each Quest includes a series of challenges bound by a compelling narr...

Collaboration, Design Thinking, Project-based Learning, Project Based Learning, Real World Learning

Maker’s Asylum is a community space focussed on fostering innovation through hands on learning. It also provides access to an ecosystem of stakeholders which includes ...

Alternative Education, Creativity, Design Thinking, Fab Lab, Hands on learning, Makerspace, product design

Global Create-a-thon

What happens when you give students a high visibility space in the community to present their creative projects and then give them a day to create art, animations, dra...

Arts, Collaboration, Design Thinking, Digital Arts, Global Collaboration, Leadership Skills, PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS, student choice, Student-Led, student voice

Rubbish Science

Respecting indigenous thinking and innovation we systematise problem-solving using scientific literacy. People aim to solve local problems using rubbish and their lear...

Design Thinking, Science education

Arkki - Creative Education for Future Innovators

Arkki provides creative education using architecture & design as holistic real-world phenomena to integrate STEAM subjects. Arkki empowers pupils with innovation sk...

Creative Thinking, Creativity, Design Thinking, Higher Order Thinking Skills, Innovation Skills

MAD-learn gives students a powerful tool to easily build content-rich, dynamic mobile apps as a means of solving problems, building entrepreneurial skills, and sharing...

Computational Thinking, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, STEMSTEAM, Student Empowerment

BEEP Lab - Design mentoring to spark creativity & Innovation for kids 快樂追築

BEEP Lab is an education & training consultancy founded in Taiwan since 2015 and is now based in Singapore as a registered social enterprise. We aim to enrich and enga...

architecture, Creative education, Design facilitation, Design Thinking, Higher Critical thinking, K-12 Education, Multidisciplinary Learning, steam education

Rubbish Science

Creating a global group of collaborative problem solvers using only freely available materials (plastic bottles, bags etc) to make fly traps, hydroponic bottle garden...

Africa, Design Thinking, Education, Environment, Global Collaboration, HEALTH, recycling, rubbish, SCIENCE, Scientific Literacy, Vietnam

Drone-based Interdisciplinary Learning & Entrepreneurship Education

A Finnish curriculum framework was adopted to cultivate students’ transversal competences under the theme of drone technology in Hong Kong. Students applied what they ...

21ST CENTURY SKILLS, Collaborative Learning, Cross-Curricular, Design Thinking, Drone Technology, Engineering Process, Entrepreneurship education, Environmental studies, Interdisciplinary learning, Life Planning, Microbit Coding, RIASEC Model, STEAM, STEM, Transversal Competences

Girls Leadership and entrepreneurship network (GLEN)

Girls' Leadership and Entrepreneurship Network works through school clubs that gives girls in schools opportunities to contribute actively to global issues, develop th...

21ST CENTURY SKILLS, Adolescent Girls, ARTS, COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, Design Thinking, EMPATHY, Livelihood, Mentoring, Entrepreneurship, GROWTH MINDSET, PASSION BASED LEARNING, PERFORMING, SOCIAL MEDIA

MyMachine is a unique collaboration of 3 educational levels co-creating their own 'dream machines': 1. Primary schoolchildren invent a 'machine' (an IDEA) 2. whi...

21 Century Skills, Co-creation, CREATIVITY, Design, Design Thinking, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Intergenerational, Joy And Wonder, Joyful Learning, Maker-centered Learning, MakerEd, Open Knowledge, STEAM, STEM, Wonder

Headrush Learning

Headrush captures a living record of project planning, execution, assessment and reporting for schools breaking the bounds of traditional education. Students pursue th...

Competency-based learning, Design Thinking, Education, Innovation, Inquiry-based Learning, Learning Management System, project-based learning, Student Voice

Using Start Up models of design thinking and idea incubators, students design a social enterprise and pitch for 'virtual funds'. Real case studies and video interviews...

Business Skills, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Positive Psychology, Project Based Learning, Student Empowerment

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No Education Without Representation: 3 Ways To Democratize Your School

Schools might teach about democracy, but what messages are students actually receiving? Democracy is about much more than casting the occasional vote. Here are 3 inno...