Design Thinking and Maker experiences have been hot topics at my school recently.  I’ve been trying to find K-12 teacher specific professional development in these areas, but I haven’t had a ton of luck.

I know several people who’ve done training with Stanford, but they’ve ended this program.  MIT had a couple of pieces mentioned on their website, but nothing seemed relevant to K-12 education.

Promising Events:

• Nueva School Nueva Design Institute June 17-20, 2013 - I requested to be on the waiting list; conference is full. This is sponsored in part by Stanford.
• Henry Ford Institute – Multiple Design Thinking Workshops
• FUSE – Mt. Vernon School June 18-19, 2013
• The Key School has something in the works, but it hasn’t been announced yet.

There are a number of podcasts available in iTunesU that look promising.  I’ve bookmarked my links in Diigo and on Pinterest:

• https://www.diigo.com/user/brasst/designthinking
• https://www.diigo.com/user/brasst/maker
• http://pinterest.com/brasst/maker/

Any favorite sites/resources/opportunities in this area you’d like to share?

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Note:

Since doing this post, I’ve received info about two trainings happening at Columbia University.

• Design Thinking - Saturday, April 20, 2013
• Design Thinking – Wed/Thurs, June 19-20, 2013

Thanks to Vinnie Vrotney for sharing Gary Stager’s Constructing Modern Knowledge in June and to Lucy Gray for sharing Open Webinar on Design Thinking tomorrow.

Richard Kassissieh just mentioned Leading is Learning. It’s a hands-on summer program involving high school students working with their teachers as they learn the design process together.

Keep them coming!

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