Educated by Design with The Tech Rabbi

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Educated By Design with The Tech Rabbi
In his new book, Educated by Design, The Tech Rabbi Michael Cohen shares his journey to education through design, while providing useful tools and resources for the reader to help expand students’ belief in their own creative ability. Today on Vrain Waves, he shares many of these insights with us!

Connect with The Tech Rabbi
Website: https://thetechrabbi.com/ | Twitter: @TheTechRabbi

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Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

• 3 Episodes on Design
• Designing Learning Spaces with Dr. Robert Dillon
• This week = Design Thinking with Michael Cohen
• Next week = Leadership with Design
• What is Design Thinking (01:27)
• Stanford d.school model
• Divergent thinking
• Why for Design Thinking: To support self-efficacy so people realize their capacity to make an impact (03:04)
• “Everything around us has been designed so can be redesigned.”
• Collective Efficacy, effect size of 1.57 (03:36)
• Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (04:58)
• Educated By Design – Bad Idea Factory (05:45)
• Empathy – Define – Ideate – Prototype – Test
• Co Barry, CreatEdu – Airplane Wars
• Post it Note App (07:15)
• Design for fellow classmates (08:02)
• School Retool – Shadow a Student Challenge
• The Tech Rabbi (09:13) – Michael Cohen
• ISTE Keynote 2018
• @TheTechRabbi on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
• Educated By Design book
• Everybody has intrinsic creative ability (14:05)
• Functional fixedness (15:10)
• Daniel Pink Episode of Vrain Waves – his book Drive
• The Candle Problem – Dunker’s Problem
• 30 Circle Challenge
• Connecting Education & Design (19:38)
• Design is about understanding the needs of others & then creating a solution
• 2 Types of Designers; Fiver.com for logo development vs. Boutique customized design
• Adobe’s MAX Conference
• Subskills of Design (23:08)
• Improving in Empathy (25:14)
• Empathy Maps (Dave Grey, St Louis) Think – Do – Say – Feel
• Kindness by the Dozen
• Dan Heath Episode (29:53)
• Entrepreneurship class – Survey / Xerox
• Divergent thinking & student choice at Elementary & Middle levels (33:47)
• Evaluate process vs. product / growth & reflection
• Humility & Service to Others (37:37)
• Wrap Ups & Reflections (42:18)