设计思考

设计思考 is the creative five-step problem-solving process founded by David Kelly of the d.学校:斯坦福大学设计学院. 所有GA学生, PreK-12, learn the five-step process of empathizing (interviewing for need), 定义(阐明需求), ideating (generating as many possible solutions to the problem), 原型(构建你的想法), 测试(让用户与原型交互).

2013年由GA教员首次研究, design thinking has become thoroughly integrated into the GA curriculum at all levels, but it truly shines during dedicated 'Design Days' held several times per year. 在这些经历中, students and faculty work together in cross-grade or cross-divisional teams to tackle real world problems, 从而产生合作的机会, 领导, 批判性思维.

Using design thinking to solve problems gives students an opportunity to practice risk-taking and failure, 这是解决问题的两个关键环节. When students see that a failed idea gives them good information that can lead to successful ideas, 他们与失败概念的关系发生了变化, 他们更容易发展出适应力, 毅力, 灵活性, 和勇气.

Design thinking draws on 21st century methods from engineering and design and combines them with ideas from the arts, 社会科学的工具, 以及来自商业世界的见解. The process provides a glue that brings teammates with different skill sets together around a common goal: to make the lives of the people they're designing for better.

设计思考 has inspired our students and faculty to think more deeply about the way they approach problem-solving, and will continue to shape the type of learning happening at the Academy.

设计思考 is a way to help train everyone to understand that there are multiple solutions to every problem. You come up with variations of the solution until you hit one that really is the right answer to the problem using any resource you can find. ~ Gaby Russomagno 1760, Consulting Director of 创新和专项项目

This is the future; companies are using these attributes to hire employees, 所以我们需要让我们的孩子们加入进来. If we begin the work now, it will become natural for them sooner than later. ~ Lauren Vanin, 5th Grade Teacher and All-School 设计思考 Facilitator