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Photos are a fantastic way to learn about a person’s life, especially if they’re the one taking them.

Exploring documentation and assessment strategies for maker-centered learning

Teachers partner with a company to co-design new technology

Transform Your Students’ Online Learning Environment with Resources, Apps, and Games

Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has produced a series of videos on resilience. Many of the reflections in these videos will show you that success comes because of, not in spite of, failure.

The Team-Based Learning Collaborative connects you to an international network of people who are knowledgeable and passionate about Team-Based Learning, and that offers teaching resources as well as professional development, to make your life as an educator more rewarding, interesting, and fun.

Created by IDEO - Links to the "Design Thinking for Educators" toolkit

In fields of design, there is a vocabulary, shared mindset, and toolkit of strategies for understanding challenges and building innovative solutions. Education can benefit from adapting these practices to pedagogy, classroom and school design policy development.

A human-centered problem-solving approach that may be used in the teaching/learning process to develop 21st century skills as well as enhance creativity and innovation. This paper introduces design thinking and its application in pedagogy.

Design thinking differs from previous problem-solving approaches in its prioritization of the user experience and its reliance on continuous feedback and iteration.

The trendy concept is in high demand among educators, but its specifics are vague.

Stanford's Design School sees itself as a training ground for problem-solving for graduate students that “fosters creative confidence and pushes them beyond the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.” Whereas design schools elsewhere emphasize the design of products, Stanford’s uses what the local culture calls “design thinking”: “to equip our students with a methodology for producing reliably innovative results in any field.”

Discusses design thinking principles and process, describing real-world examples of design thinking in action, and offering possibilities for how you might introduce the approach into your own organization

Game changing technologies and how they're disrupting design - Infographic

Implementing creativity - Only the organizational insider—the apparent conformist—has the practical intelligence to overcome bureaucratic impediments and bring a good idea to a fruitful conclusion.

Ambiguity makes people feel uncomfortable and requires lots of trust in a team situation.

An innovative type of self management in business

FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives.

Do you want to develop an entrepreneurial mindset? Common myths

How entrepreneurs can take a big idea to a real-world product.