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  A comment on Conversation: Use design thinking in schools for educators to improve schools and to improve the process of learning in classrooms

  Mar 8 2011: Dominic - It sounds like this is popping up everywhere! I lobbied an agency here (in Australia) about 2 years ago about this to an established client (a board of education in the US) for whom they'd done some spectacular work. The premise was about using a human-centred design approach to explore how students and teachers could actively collaborate and create a more engaging approach. At that time HCD wasn't very well understood here, and Design Thinking is slowly becoming more understood as a term, so hopefully there will be some great examples in the near future to point to.
  TED did feature Emily Pilliton's talk, which is a practical example of the impact of design thinkling on education and is really worth a look:
  www.ted.com/talks/emily_pilloton_teaching_design_for_change.html