• Why Social Skills Are Trumping Cognitive Skills | Digital Tonto

  tags: social skills collaboration #MustRead

  • Rather than knowledge and intelligence, the ability to collaborate will be the defining competitive attribute
  • And that’s why the new economy really is a social economy. The future belongs not to the strongest or the smartest, but those who can collaborate—with humans and machines—most effectively.

• Briefly on Vimeo

  HT Trey Boden and Meghan Cureton

  tags: design design_brief brief creativity creative_brief #MustRead iDiplomaSeminar

• Does Design Thinking Work For Students? | Steve Mouldey

  Thanks to @boadams1 @lndeutsch @Katfabric & @MViDiploma for contributing to this research 🙂 https://t.co/Uy5g7Q4LCq

  tags: #MustRead design thinking design_thinking designthinking

  • It has felt like a more powerful version of inquiry through it’s focus on developing empathy, students iterating their understanding and then having to use their knowledge rather than just remembering information.

  • the most comprehensive definition came from a student:

     

    Design Thinking is human centred problem solving where designers go through a process which highly values empathy, feedback and multiple iterations in order to create a solution that best suits a user based on their needs and values

  • The most powerful student comment in this research shows both what students gain from the use of Design Thinking and a thirst for this authentic, meaningful approach to spread further:

     

    “I am quicker to find things that don’t feel very meaningful to me which bothers me when I know there can be meaningful ways to learn where even as a high school student I can be contributing to bigger projects that really impact people’s lives.”

  • I see students as citizens now, rather than citizens in the future, and want to help them develop the skills and knowledge to influence the world around them.

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