Design Thinking in Education - Reading List
Books
Articles
- Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World - A book on what inspires students to create by Tony Wagner
- Bringing Innovation to School - An inspiring book by Suzie Boss
- Design as a Catalyst for Learning - A book about why design thinking is effective in a learning environment by Meredith Davis, Peter Hawley, Bernard McMullan, and Gertrude Spilka
- Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching - A book about collaborative learning
- The Third Teacher - A book about the classroom environment by Cannon Design, VS Furniture and Bruce Mau Design
Articles
- Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World's Biggest Problems - Great article from Fast Company on why design thinking is important to what education should become
- Teachers Should Reward Questions, Not Just Answers - Article from Wired on why we need to encourage the "What if's" and "Why not's"
- Design Thinking Provides a Real Education for Kentucky School District - Article on why design thinking is important to education
- Why You Should Use Design Thinking Approaches in Education - Great article on why opponents of design thinking have missed the mark
- Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement - Article from Edutopia on what students says makes for engaging learning
- Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - A New York Times article on the explicit teaching of creativity
- A Design-Thinking Approach to Public School - Article from IDEO on Henry Ford Learning Institute's approach to teaching
- Creating Innovators: Why America's Education System Is Obsolete - Article from Forbes Magazine
- Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design - Article from the New York Times about Stanford's d.School
- Rescuing Education - Great article from NAIS about why we need to engage our students in experiential learning
- Two Sides Of The Same Coin: The Employment Crisis And The Education Crisis - Great article from Ashoka on why we need to be teaching communication, creativity, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and Learning through Design Thinking - Edutopia article on using design thinking in the classroom and giving teachers the same experience as the designers of the learning environment