Event Title
Il Design Thinking: l’innovazione per la didattica.
Date and location
The event took place on March 23rd, 2023 at the Istituto Comprensivo “M. Montessori” of Terracina, rooms places in the “Don Adriano Bragazzi”- Via Giacomo Balla, 04019 Terracina, organized by the Multidiscipliary Research Center, EU-Track.
Participants
The workshop was addressed to teachers from Italy and Belgium, educators, instructors, professionals, students and publish authorities stakeholders who intended to deepen and enhance their knowledge in learning and experimenting with innovative teaching methodologies, like design thinking, that promote the ability to think critically, take initiatives, solve problems and work collaboratively through experiential learning. A total of 50 participants attended the event.
Description of activities
The event was focused on learning in a practical way how to implement the design-thinking methodology in the classroom to promote an increasingly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, essential in the STE(A)M field and using the tools developed within the ICT INOV project. First, the project ideas and aims were presented to the audience. Afterwards, the principles and the steps of the methodology were introduced to help the participants to become familiar with it before the workshop started.The workshop, the practical activity organized, aimed to underline the potential of design thinking as an innovative approach to support the development of creativity and innovation in students; let the participants know how to work and think through the five phases of the method, namely empathy, problem definition, ideation for introducing ideas for innovative solutions, prototyping for starting to create solutions, and testing of the proposed solutions.
In addition, the ICT INOV platform was shown to demonstrate the use of the ICT_INOV methodology and tools in the classroom with the possibility of experimenting directly with students.
See the event program.
Dissemination
The event was disseminated through Facebook profile, LinkedIn profile and the institutional website.