Blog Post #2: Applying Design Thinking to Learning About Race, Racism and Antiracism
Design thinking is a learning approach that focuses on understading people’s needs, defining problems, brainstorming solutions, creating prototype and testing ideas based on feedback. Instead of only learning information from readings, design thinking wants learners to apply their ideas to real-life situations. It values collaboration, reflection and empathy. Brown (2008) explains that design thinking begins…