What is “design thinking”? Design thinking is “thinking like a designer to solve ill-defined problems “. Design thinking can be used in our education.

　　Teachers with design thinking skills will encourage students to find problems on their own and express their thoughts and ideas, in order to cultivate their problem solving skills.

　　The process of learning by collaborative thinking goes like this: first, students should observe and empathize the needs and demands of users, then define the problem that is needed to be solved. Second, students are encouraged to offer their thoughts and come up with ideas to meet the needs of users. Third, students are expected to design a model to put their ideas into practical use, and test this model. Lastly, students revise their model while rethinking their original ideas.

　　Design thinking can stimulate innovation in education because of the following points: we can confirm demands and problems, and the ideas and plans on solving these problems can be improved. We can also evaluate the promisingness of the ideas, and exchange possible concepts and models during the process of design thinking.

　　When design thinking collaborates with our lives, the “users” in design thinking becomes ourselves. Thus, we should empathize our own needs and become aware of ourselves. We need to find out and define what we truly love and have passion for. Then we should make short term and long term goals, and think of different kinds of possibilities. Lastly, we should take action and carry out our plans, and continue revising them on the way.

　　To conclude, design thinking is a creative and innovative approach to problem-solving and making plans. From my perspective, the ability to empathize the needs of others and ourselves is an essential skill that we would need in our daily lives. Moreover, the ability to carry out plans and revise them is also very important. Creativity shouldn’t be used only in drawing, painting and the likes, but also be used in our everyday lives.

學生優良心得(一)

A few days ago , I watched a movie called “ 無問西東” in class. The movie showed the meaning of what life is for . The answer was to “ Follow your heart and do what you literally want to do.” However , no one asked me how to proceed until today’ class.

The way of achieving our goals is design thinking . The teacher described the process of it . First of all , we have to observe the things all around us and find out where differences and questions are . Secondly , we should define the questions . For example , what is the definition of bad shopping carts ? Not easy to be turned around or no hooks ? After the second stage , the thoughts on the project are extremely important . The blueprint should be planned in a thoughtful and creative way so that the next step will be easier and smoother . The last thing is that the plan we propose will go through the trial and error for a long time until it works .

The teacher demonstrated IDEO company using a kind of technique . This group found out that the shopping carts in all markets had some problems , including the unsafe seat in the cart for babies or something put out of the shopping cart. Then , all the members in this group worked in high attention together to collect wild ideas DEFER judgment build on the ideas of others . Next , some of prototypes were combined into one featuring great points of those . In the end , they successfully devised the true one they liked.

Design thinking also can be utilized in education , like STEM . The teacher continued to tell us that design thinking also could bring some advantages to us . We can know the thoughts which can be improved and what’s our demand . In addition , conceptual change can be taken advantage of through design thinking . Lastly , the teacher described Odyssey plan divided into three parts like as usual , breakthrough , carefree. These three parts mean you should organize a plan about what you want to do in life. If it doesn’t work, you should replace a plan with as usual stage. And carefree stage means you can organize a plan whether it is unpractical.

My dream is to become a boss full of abilities in the future, and to ultimately create a kind of car which can keep passengers from dying . Although I did not have too much expertise in this area , I tried to devise a plan through design thinking . First of all , I found that the even though the seat belt and the hard body of the car can give us protection , the fast speeding is the main factor causing the death . Based on the costs of the cars , we hardly can look for something to strengthen the bodies of the cars because sturdy materials are especially rare . Therefore , the plan I came up with was devise the doors which are more protrude in the middle of it so that the four sides of the doors can support the middle of it more efficiently . Except for that , we can establish a steering wheel telling you please grasp the steering wheel with two hands if you don’t . Although I cannot go into the stage of trial due to less experience and money , I had implicit confidence in accomplishing it by virtue of mingling with advantages and throwing out disadvantages . For example , what kinds of materials can be bent at a proper angle ? Do the voices between men or women make a difference ? Does it stand a chance of using more comfortable texture to let drivers have no will to let go of their hands ?

To sum up , I was very appreciative of what this class was telling about . I had a little chance to learn how to accomplish the plan systematically until today’ class. Eventually, I consider the class imperative for me to realize not only the way the plan is but also everything you confronte in life ！

學生優良心得(二)

　　這週的演講，令我想到高一那年夏天在國立臺灣科學教育館與夥伴們的研究時光。

「我以後一定不敢再用便利貼了！」某一次下課後同學這麼說著，但話雖如此，便利貼卻成了那個暑假裡我們共同的回憶。

　　設計思考是什麼？也許高中時的我會說，是一種新興的教學方法，引導學生更好地創造答案，但是現在我會說，這不只在學習上是個好方法，於人生也是個尋找目標的好方法。

我承認，設計思考讓我不得不面對人性裡最害怕的事之一──失敗，因為在過程中，我們必須提出所有沾得上邊的想法，在經過一層一層地討論去蕪存菁，但有時候我們卻會不斷面臨重新來過，最後才能找出一個最好的解決方法。

　　所以演講中曾出現的那句：「快速嘗試，不怕失敗。」也深深烙在我的腦海，因為生命就是要經歷一次又一次的嘗試、失敗、爬起然後繼續嘗試，直到達到目標的那一天。

以前的我總會覺得要準備好了，才可以避免失敗也才能出發，但是有一天我在社群媒體上看到一句話：「如果人生總是覺得不敢面對失敗而遲遲沒有開始，那麼永遠也不會有開始的一天。」

　　是啊，失敗有什麼可怕的呢？就算被旁人笑話，那也是一種另類的證明，證明自己曾經做過，而不是裹足不前。謝謝林倍伊老師帶來如此發人深省且有意義的演講，她給了我們另一種詮釋設計思考的觀點，更讓我們從中反思人生。