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Why design thinking isn’t just for techies

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My aha moment came when I realized that, like the scientific method, design thinking is just another inquiry cycle that guides students by giving them steps to conduct research. Design thinking is a social-scientific approach to solving human-centered problems. The inquiry cycle.

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Is it the school, or the students?

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Angrist and Pathak are both professors in the MIT Department of Economics and co-founders of MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research group that often examines school performance. In these districts, students can opt for any school in the district, but some schools are oversubscribed.

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. In the past, Family Day attendees have met an astronaut, a NASCAR champion, and seen an engineer ascend to the top of the National Building Museum. Future City.