An exciting development in education is the integration of design thinking into teaching and learning. Design thinking, long employed by designers and engineers, is an approach to problem-solving that involves defining an issue, collecting research, generating ideas, and prototyping before implementing a solution. In our knowledge-based economy, design thinking is an invaluable skill because it can be applied to resolve a myriad of problems.
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March 29, 2012 (Half Moon Bay, CA) – ISKME, or the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, has been a pioneer in knowledge sharing and educational innovation since 2002, when it was founded by President Lisa Petrides as a nonprofit to help K-20 educational institutions and their support organizations, such as foundations and government agencies, expand their capacity to collect, share, and apply information to create environments for open learning and success.
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Expounding on the ideas of the wildly popular article 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete in 2020, we asked a few of those who attendedBig Ideas Fest, a recent gathering of teachers, administrators, entrepreneurs and policymakers, to predict what they think will be obsolete in 2020.
As the open education movement grows, the ripple effects of what it means for teachers to take control of what they teach is being witnessed across all spectrums in education. Customizable content, sharing and becoming part of a community, and deconstructing entrenched ideologies about what constitutes quality learning materials — these are just a few paths that the open education movement is creating.
It’s not a new question, but it’s certainly a divisive one — how to best measure student learning.
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