Learning Through Design Thinking
The Design School at Stanford is doing some interesting stuff. You can find it at: http://dschool.stanford.edu/k12/index.php
The K-12 Lab started with a question: Why is it that all students start kindergarten with innate creative confidence, but few of them still have it when they graduate from high school? The lab’s work centers on helping schools and teachers around the world re-think their approach to developing creativity.
Their Mission is below. (Reads so much better than most school mission statements, don’t you think?)
K-12 Lab at the d.school: Building creative confidence in kids.
Why this matters?
This is the type of stuff that can reunite families, solve community crises, and empower a generation.
This is about giving kids a methodology when they don’t have one. It’s about unleashing the difference one can make.
This is about getting to know people for who they are, gaining insights around the challenges they are facing, and working together using creative powers to build brand new solutions for those challenges.
It’s about constantly learning from the surrounding world, people, and work.
Though all kids are creative, most kids lack creative confidence to approach the challenges they face.
This is about changing that.
