When the iPad came out, a lot of K-12 technology leaders were intrigued, but decided that their use was limited in schools. With a different operating system and no physical keyboard, they didn’t look or act like PCs. One Bay Area school is running a very interesting experiment, enabling real desktop applications like Microsoft Word [...]
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Design Revolution Road Show
The Design Revolution Road Show is in its third month on the road, and if you’re lucky enough to live in one of the midwestern places where it is coming, you’re in for a treat. The road show consists of a great old Airstream trailer filled with real products that have been designed with humanitarian [...]
Getting unstuck: design thinking
So what do you do, when you’re working project, and you just get stuck? Here’s what design thinking will advise: Don’t just stay there, and try to think it through, or analyze it to death. Think: “Who can I go to?” and “What can I try?” This was one of the gems from George Kemble’s [...]
Ken Robinson on Creativity and Schools
In the last few years, Ken Robinson has spoken widely about the need for a transformation in schools, and the missing role of imagination in education. I have tried to gather a number of his talks below, so that you can follow some of the threads he traces. Some of his work helps to draw [...]