Design Thinking for Education

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Kidzania Educators Forum 2018

I had the opportunity to share a snippet of my research in Design Thinking in Education during the Kidzania Educators Forum at Kidzania Manila last July 18, 2018. With me were thought leaders that includes Dr. Ger Graus OBE, the Global Education Director of Kidzania, Henry Motte Muñoz of Edukasyon.ph, Luis Oquiñena of GK, and…

Design Thinking for Social Innovation

(This article was presented during the 7th Philippine Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Research Conference of the Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation or BCYF in partnership with the Philippine Association of Colleges & Universities [PACU] and the National CSR Educator’s Council [NCEC] held at Club Filipino, Greenhills last August 21, 2017.) The Philippines today is a…

Disruptive Innovation in Education

We often talk about how the current exponential advances in technology has brought about disruption in the academe and yet we fall short, if not fail, to actually suggest how might we be able to do just that. This subject is the gist of the book entitled Disrupting Class: How disruptive innovation will change the way the…

Design Thinking in Education

(Note: The following article is part of a larger research study entitled Design Thinking in Education: A Critical Review of Literature. This is also uploaded at Academia.edu.) One of the biggest challenges for education is how to prepare the students for a world that doesn’t yet exist. With the exponential advances in technology coupled with the…

Thinkathon: The Idea that Lived

I had a great opportunity to facilitate a Design Thinking workshop with a multidisciplinary group of students from the School of Management & Information Technology (SMIT) and the School of Design & Arts last November 18-19 at the SDA Architecture Hall. I was with another Benildean associate Jenesis Adriano of the Center for Instruction, Research…

DT+Lean with Tandemic

For months, I have read around more than 60+ journal articles about Design Thinking and how it was being used as a teaching methodology in education to teach creativity, innovation and radical collaboration. I also had the opportunity of observing firsthand DT champions @ Benilde with the likes of Abigail Mapua-Cabanilla, Jag Garcia, TQ…