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A Recipe to Exceed your Design Thinking Expectations (a story from Mumbai, India)

Ingredients for Design Thinking with Your School: One teacher “spur/cheerleader” One outside “design guru” One teacher “unstoppable force” A pile of middle school kiddos A well-stocked design studio One and only one main goal A pinch of luck This is the story about how ASB Mumbai middle school students were able to make a mobile library in only one week. This is how a principal … Continue reading A Recipe to Exceed your Design Thinking Expectations (a story from Mumbai, India)

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Design Curb Cuts to Help All of Your Students

Curb cuts are the gentle sloping edges to sidewalks that are now ubiquitous across the country and all over the world. Yet, there was a day when curb cuts just didn’t exist. The tenacious activist Ed Roberts led a movement in Berkley, California to demand that the city make curb cuts (99PI podcast episode) to increase access for the disabled who wished for mobility around … Continue reading Design Curb Cuts to Help All of Your Students

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Hostile Design In Schools #SpikeStudents

Like it or not, there are parts of our school and courses that we designed in all of our schools that is aimed at deterring unwanted student behaviors or outcomes, however it doesn’t solve the root cause of the problem. Instead, it ends up irritating students and teacher alike, destroying student-teacher relationships and disenfranchising segments of your student population. This is the story of Hostile … Continue reading Hostile Design In Schools #SpikeStudents

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