The conveners of #FUSE14 chose the perfect image as metaphor for the event: a swimming pool. I was a swimmer growing up; learned how to swim at age three and was competitive in all four strokes by age five. Am still at home in the water as I am on land. Like our students in [...]
Am writing this blog post is in real time. In the 101 Track of #fuse14, the coaches are leading what they call a "flash lab" a quick introduction experience that compresses the DT process into very short segments. Attendees have partnered with people they never met before five minutes ago. The group was handed the [...]
Co-hosts of #fuse14, Mt. Vernon Institute For Innovation (@MVIFI) have created a remarkable new playbook for design thinking and design thinkers. I just had a few minutes this early AM to thumb through it. I know a LOT of folks contributed to it but it has the look and feel of a lot of Mary [...]
Is the term "design thinking" completely foreign to you? Sort of heard about it and sort of know what it is? Want to get your toes wet? In addition to following along here and on the Twitter feed for #fuse14 in the next few days, you might want to spend something less than an hour [...]
There is a great exchange going on this morning on the #fuse14 Twitter feed about the role of "new" educational tools like maker-spaces, design studios, and design thinking. Lisa Goochee, a 4th grade teacher at an international school in Brazil kicked it off by asking if the " 'making' fervor is missing the forest for [...]
Are you a Twitter novice? Don't have a Twitter account? Want to but kind of weirded out or uncertain about it? OK; now is the time to give it a try, because you can connect, with zero pain, to a whole bunch of other educators who, just like you, a few months or years ago [...]
As an observer-reporter-connector at large for #FUSE14 this coming week, I will try to flesh out some of the larger meanings and lessons, particularly for those who are not able to attend in person. A foundational skill of great thinking is asking questions, especially the kind of questions that expand the framework of possible outcomes. As [...]
One of the premier opportunities for K-12 educators to learn about and practice the power of design thinking takes place this week in Atlanta, and I am honored to be invited to attend as a sort of “reporter/connector-at-large”. From now through June 26, my blog will be focused on #FUSE14; during the actual conference June [...]
I have never visited an educational institution more steeped in tradition than the US Military Academy at West Point. The Academy is a keeper of traditions of which all of us would be proud, and that many of us would do well to emulate. But, over the several years that I have worked and visited [...]
I was a latecomer to the formal theories of education and learning; in my formative years I never read Dewey, Piaget, or Bloom. I am still convinced that I coined the term “problem-finding” one afternoon in 1985 as I ran our two dogs on a sage-covered hillside; certainly I had never heard it used before [...]