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Extending Design Thinking with Emerging Digital Technologies

Project description

The ABCs of design thinking with emerging technologies

Design thinking is a key component of project-based learning. As a paedagogical approach, it can be progressive and conducive to transformative learning as part of a human-centred problem-solving approach. In this context, the EU-funded Exten.D.T.2 project will use emerging technologies to enhance paedagogical value, sustainable digitisation and the potential for wide deployment of design thinking. Specifically, it will use design-based research to support paedagogical transformation based on established home-grown expressive digital media enhanced by AI, augmented reality, 3D printing and scanning as well as virtual robotics. The project’s overall aim is to inspire teachers to roll out design thinking projects in their classrooms addressing core societal challenges and create spaces for reflective discourse and risk-taking around them.

Objective

Exten.(D.T.)2 uses Emerging Technologies (ET) to enhance the pedagogical value, sustainable digitization and potential for wide deployment of Design Thinking (DT).

DT is a promising transformative pedagogical innovation based on engaged interdisciplinary learning and the growth of 21st-century (21C) skills for everyone, through entrepreneurial co-creation. Like other such innovations however, it has yet to pull its potential weight in terms of impact in educational transformation.

Exten.(D.T.)2 will use design-based research to support/provide evidence for pedagogical transformation via DT enhanced by ET. It will employ already institutionalized, home-grown and open-access digital expressive media of advanced technical readiness for students to engage in DT projects. It will also uniquely integrate with these expressive media ET i.e. ΑΙ-enhanced Authorable Learning Analytics, Augmented Reality, 3D printing/scanning and virtual robotics, to leverage digital implementation, monitoring and assessment of DT projects by teachers in schools.

Implemented/developed in different social contexts across 6 European countries, Exten.(D.T.)2 will explore the risks and potential of the pedagogical use of ET and how they support 21C skills, in turn increasing the scope, transformative potential and applicability of DT with ET in mainstream schooling.

Exten.(D.T.)2 will invite and inspire teachers and other stakeholders to design and implement such projects, by running original strategic teacher professional development, providing courses and guidelines for them to design, implement and evaluate DT projects in their classrooms.

The Exten.(D.T.)2 consortium includes 8 research sites with complementary interdisciplinary academic expertise, to support project development and at the same time with maintained active and sustainable connections with educational institutions and policy-making centers across 6 European countries.

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Coordinator

LINNEUNIVERSITETET
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€ 743 088,75
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LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY
35195 Vaxjo
Sweden

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Södra Sverige Småland med öarna Kalmar län
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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