Design Thinking
Workshop Details
WHEN: Friday, 17 to Saturday, 18 April 2015 (8:00am - 4:00pm)
WHERE: Shangri-la Hotel Kuala Lumpur
FEES: Free for ISKL Faculty
FOCUS: Strategic Planning
Workshop Overview
Design Thinking can be a powerful vehicle for deeper learning of content, more divergent thinking and building the thinking skills capacity of learners. In schools, NoTosh Ltd use design thinking as a framework onto which we hang specific thinking skills to achieve specific learning tasks. The thinking skills are those identified by ongoing education research as having more-than-average impact on student learning and outcomes. Teachers already practice many of these skills - so we help consistency, share more internally, and identify what skills work best at which point in learning. Often, Notosh Ltd work with schools to develop their own language to describe the design thinking process.
Why Design Thinking?
NoTosh was a company born of the frustration that teachers were constantly being told to "be more creative", yet few people suggested how, or why being more creative might have an impact on learning. On the design front, the domain of design thinking has been developed since the late 1950s, leading to those organisations which are 'design-aware' achieving more success than the average. On the education front, we felt there was a need to help educators prioritise which of the many things we can do, we might do first. By bringing a degree of process thinking from the design world together with proven practices in learning and teaching, we help educators on that journey. We ask the educators who work with us not to take our word for it, but to continue testing these hypotheses, through a professional development programme based around teacher action-setting, changes in practice, reflection and evidence of impact, and sharing.
Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh is the founder of NoTosh Limited, a startup that develops products and services with creative companies on the one hand, and then takes the processes, attitudes and research gained there to the world of education. His company works with hundreds of schools and districts, providing ideas, inspiration and research on how to better engage kids.
Ewan was a French and German High School teacher, before moving from the classroom into technology research and leadership as Scotland's first National Advisor on Learning and Technology Futures. He later helped set up one of the most ambitious investment funds from a public service broadcaster in the UK, the $100m 4iP Fund from Channel 4 Television.
As well as heading up NoTosh's work globally with creative corporations, Governments and school districts, Ewan is a digital agenda to the Vice President of the European Commission, Mrs Neelie Kroes. He is also a Trustee of the RSA's Opening Minds Curriculum and sits on the Board of Interactive Ontario's INplay conference, showcasing where play, video games and learning meet. Ewan and his team are all about engaging people, whether they're voters, customers or kids in a classroom.
McIntosh launched the world's first iPad Investment Fund in 2010, has been at the centre of $5m of creative media investments since January 2010, including $2.5 of non-profit projects with the MacArthur Foundation to improve the learning of students from North America to India. Companies in which he has invested have won a Media Guardian Award for the Best App of 2010 and another developed one of Apple's Top 30 All-Time Best Selling Apps, appearing in the Guardian's Tech Invest 100, 2010.
He frequently gives talks and workshops around the world, trying to find new and better ways of using emerging technologies in education, and exploring the changing physical environments that are required to best harness those opportunities.
Source: NoTosh.com and Ewan McIntosh's edu.blogs.com
