Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms

Abstract

Design thinking is a method of problem-solving that relies on a complex of skills, processes, and mindsets that help people generate novel solutions to problems. Design thinking can result in new objects, ideas, narratives, or systems. The excitement over design thinking lies in the proposition that anyone can learn to do it. The democratic promise of design thinking is that once design thinking has been mastered anyone can go about redesigning the systems, infrastructures, and organizations that shape our lives.