Reform By Design: Using design to address pressing social challenges
Originally posted at Reform By Design This TEDx talk by Lauren Tan was brought to my attention via Anel Palafox’s blog, +think design change. I appreciated a few things about it. First, Tan does a nice...
View ArticleReform By Design: Decision attitude versus design attitude: Two paths for a…
Originally posted at Reform By Design Decision attitude versus design attitude: Two paths for a leader I just finished reading Richard Boland and Fred Collopy’s introductory chapter in their 2004...
View ArticleReform By Design: How might we design a $16 million school of education?
Originally posted at Reform By Design "From you, I get opinion. From you, I get the story” The Who. “See Me, Feel Me.” Tommy. Polydor Records, 1969 How might we design a $16 million school of...
View ArticleReform By Design: How might we assess design thinking prowess?
Is it true? Are we all smarter than any of us, as they like to say at IDEO? If so, then maybe we can all develop one new survey to assess design thinking. I’ve kicked off a crowdsourcing project to...
View ArticleReform By Design: Why are we trying to design a “thing” when we should be…
Originally posted at Reform By Design Why are we trying to design a “thing” when we should be designing a service? I just received “This is Service Design Thinking" (Stickdorn & Schneider, 2010) in...
View ArticleReform By Design: What is being creative?
Originally posted at Reform By Design What is being creative? from Kristian Ulrich Larsen on Vimeo. What is being creative? "The ability and urge to make something of value…Something that...
View ArticleReform By Design: The absence of design in organizational design: What…
The absence of design in organizational design: What gives? Image: “Formality” CC Flickr user DailyPic Author’s note: While the situation that inspired this post takes place in a university, the...
View ArticleReform By Design: We can design the change we want in schools I’m sitting in...
We can design the change we want in schools I’m sitting in Iowa as I write this. The role of Iowans and their academic institutions has not gone unnoticed in the history of computing and technology in...
View ArticleReform By Design: Design thinking is not dead, but business culture has eaten...
Bruce Nussbaum suggests that design thinking is a failed experiment and that it’s time to move on to something new. As the former assistant managing editor at Business Week, he knows how to write a...
View ArticleReform By Design: Portable design thinking kits for the classroom
Originally posted at Reform By Design [Apologies for broken links and lack of pictures — I’m still fixing things from this blog’s migration to Tumblr after Posterous’ demise] Today I kick off my...
View ArticleReform By Design: Useful and interesting design thinking links Image Flickr CC…
Originally posted at Reform By Design Useful and interesting design thinking links Image Flickr CC Darren Hester My colleague at the University of Minnesota (and fellow design thinker and UW Badger),...
View ArticleReform By Design: Ways to stoke (and kill) brainstorming
Originally posted at Reform By Design The notion of brainstorming ideas has been around for a while. It’s reported that Alex Faickney Osborn popularized the term in his 1953 book Applied Imagination....
View ArticleReform By Design: Finally, consultants to schools who actually know what they...
Originally posted at Reform By Design Finally, consultants to schools who actually know what they are talking aboutIt’s simply not possible. Or is it? Let’s say you’re a middle school principal. How...
View ArticleReform By Design: Curriculum as a continual process of design
Originally posted at Reform By Design Michale Apple suggests that curriculum is a design process in Official Knowledge: "… following a long line of educators from Dewey to Huebner, I conceive of...
View ArticleReform By Design: The G School: Design thinking across grade levels in K-12...
Originally posted at Reform By Design This video nicely captures the way in which design thinking can be integrgated into the K-12 curriculum, with secondary students on design teams in service to...
View ArticleReform By Design: Listening, Leadership, and Change What trait will serve you...
Originally posted at Reform By Design Listening, Leadership, and Change What trait will serve you the most as a school leader? There is no shortage of lists extolling the most important knowledge,...
View ArticleReform By Design: Using a Touchpoint Matrix to Visualize a System of Research…
Originally posted at Reform By Design Using a Touchpoint Matrix to Visualize a System of Research Support Services This is a touchpoint matrix I sketched to represent a set of services to support...
View ArticleReform By Design: 59 Questions That Help Stoke Need Finding In our class,...
Originally posted at Reform By Design 59 Questions That Help Stoke Need Finding In our class, Design Thinking in Education, we conducted the "Whose Life?" exercise, developed by Steve Bishop, of IDEO....
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