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Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative

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The answer is not necessarily a new one, but it is a concept that needs more attention from educators in our modern-day classrooms: Design thinking. What is design thinking? The idea of design thinking has been around since the 1960s (Dam & Teo, 2022) but has continued to change in both name and shape over the last 60 years.

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University of Michigan Turns Courses Into Games

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GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure. Our goal is really to help people think differently about teaching and learning,” Niemer says.

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How to Make District-Wide Innovation Personal—and Collaborative

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Arcadia took care not only to define values— collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, empathy and learning from failure—that would cut across those historical restraints, but also to implement new processes that would signal to its people that it was serious about those values.

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