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Month: January 2016

Teaching Design Thinking

January 15, 2016

This week, Jennifer Baker and her 6th grade art classes continued to tackle design thinking.  In short, Design Thinking is the problem solving practice of empathizing, defining a problem, ideating, prototyping and testing solutions, all in rapid succession so that groups ‘fail fast’ in order to get to the best solution as quickly as possible. … More Teaching Design Thinking

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Great Start to the New Year!!!

January 8, 2016

We’re Back and had a busy week last week. The Econ/Shark Tank class utilized the collaborative space this week as the students got the feet wet on understanding the Design Thinking Process. We got the LASER CUTTER UP AND RUNNING!! We were able to cut the Westminster logo into cardboard, chipboard and, plexi-glass. On Wednesday, … More Great Start to the New Year!!!

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