Design Thinking in Education: From Concepts to Classroom
Design Thinking in Education: From Concepts to Classroom
This 5-day, 25-hour intensive workshop provides hands-on experience with applying Design Thinking to educational difficulties.
The course covers the whole Design Thinking cycle, from Empathy and Problem Definition to Ideation, Prototyping, and Testing, with specialist techniques like Lego Serious Play and Storytelling thrown in for good measure. The course, which focuses on experiential learning, includes more than 16 hours of practical exercises and real-world simulations meant to empower participants with the ability to make rapid changes in their educational environments.
Objectives and skills
Discover the core ideas of Design Thinking and its use in education.
Improve your capacity to tackle educational difficulties from a human-centered standpoint.
Learn how to do empathy interviews, problem definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing in an educational setting.
For added value, incorporate specific approaches such as Lego Serious Play and Storytelling into the Design Thinking process.
Methodology
The course is taught using a combination of lectures, group discussions, hands-on activities, and real-world simulations. To enhance the learning experience, special approaches such as Lego Serious Play and Storytelling are used carefully. To ensure the application of Design Thinking in various educational situations, almost 16 hours are devoted to practical exercises, including individual and group assignments.
Benefits to participants – Skills and competences
Problem-Solving Techniques: Learn a systematic method to tackling challenging educational challenges.
Human-Centered Design: Improve your empathy and problem-solving abilities.
Collaboration and Communication: Enhance team collaboration and communication, which is essential in educational environments.
Rapid Prototyping and Testing: Learn how to design and test solutions fast and efficiently.
Improve your ability to generate creative solutions and support creativity in educational settings by developing your creative confidence.
- Certificate of attendance
- Europass Mobility Document (if requested)
Day 1: Introduction & Empathy
Morning Session: Introduction to Design Thinking (3 hours)
- Welcome and Ice-breakers
- Basic Principles of Design Thinking
- Relevance in Education
- Methods of Research
- Empathy Mapping
- Conducting Interviews
Morning Session: Defining the Problem (3 hours)
- Synthesizing Research
- Problem Statements
- Add-Value: Lego Serious Play for Problem Definition (1 hour)
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Idea Voting
- Creating Idea Backlogs
Morning Session: Introduction to Prototyping (3 hours)
- Low-fidelity vs High-fidelity Prototypes
- Prototyping Tools
- Paper Prototyping
- Introduction to Software Tools
- Creating a Digital Prototype
Morning Session: Testing Prototypes (3 hours)
- Usability Testing
- A/B Testing
- Data Interpretation
- Collecting Feedback
- Add-Value: Using Storytelling to Present User Feedback (1 hour)
Morning Session: Iteration and Improvement (3 hours)
- How to Make Iterations
- When to Pivot or Persevere
- Scaling Solutions
- Business Model Canvas
- Add-Value: Reflective Lego Serious Play Activity to Summarize Learnings (1 hour)
Standard course fee
450 EUR
Includes class materials & coffee-breaks
Optional pack
+75 EUR
Includes 3 visits to companies/business related to the topic of the training course + 1 cultural visit (e.g. local beaches and/or Underground Museum or similar)
Instructor
António Durão
Ana Ribeiro (ana.ribeiro@raisemotions.pt)
Target audience
Educators, school administrators, curriculum creators, and other education professionals engaged in problem-solving and innovating educational procedures.
Language(s)
English (Level B2 Required)
Duration
5 Days
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