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" Design thinking solves problems using the methods and thinking processes used by designers. These include creative processes such as experimenting, creating and prototyping models, soliciting feedback, and redesigning. Design thinking places learners in contexts that make them think like designers, creating innovative solutions that address people’s needs. Learners need to solve technical problems but they also need to understand how users will feel when employing the solutions. Design thinking is a social as well as a mental process. It involves thinking and working across different perspectives and often involves conflict and negotiation. For example, students designing an educational computer game need to think from the perspective of a good teacher as well as from the perspective of a game player. As a pedagogy, design thinking may involve civic literacy, cultural awareness, critical and creative thinking, and technical skills. When implementing this approach in the classroom, the teacher and students need to take risks and try new methods. "

The skills should be taught:
" In schools and colleges, design thinking activities can be seen as a means to foster innovation, going beyond 21st-century skills of communication, creativity, and digital literacy to embrace civic literacy, empathy,  cultural awareness and risk taking. "

"The goal is not for students to master a topic, but to gain enduring competences and dispositions, to think about their everyday world as a set of interlocking designs and its obstacles as design problems. Design work is demanding, intellectually and practically, for students and teachers. Students require modelling and support from teachers. Teachers need repeated practice to become effective facilitators. All must embrace the uncertainties and open-ended nature of design problems, taking a positive attitude to acceptable risk and failure. "

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DT is a kind of thinking process where the learner consistently adopt to form solutions to problems, through a continuous process of testing, evaluating and making refinements.

DT need not be domain-specific. It should be a mind-set adopted by the students.

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Design Thinking is a mindset. Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when apporaching problem solving and decision making, should be scaffold by the teacher

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Design thinking is a process whereby there is an analysis of the problem and a synthesis component. The synthesis is a result of conducting the analysis.
It can be taught in schools as an extension of their learning in various topics. Students will be able to see greater relevance of what they have learnt to real-world context.

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Design thinking is the approach where the focus is the end user.

The flows allows students to be systematic and logical in their processes.

I think this is a good approach and should be taught in schools. However, it should not be taught in isolation as a design thinking class or course. It should be incorporated as part of the individual subjects or as a problem solving tool involving several subjects.

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DT is problem solving skills in developing ideas in authentic case base scenario prepare learner in working environment

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I believe that design thinking can be incorporated naturally in some subjects in school such as languages, entrepreneurship, science etc. In fact, I think it is necessary to make design thinking a way of life therefore all students even starting in kindergarten should be introduced to it.

Design thinking can be used to solve problems. Through identifying the need or problem,  convergent and divergent thinking, prototyping and testing of ideas, solutions and/or products, students will learn not only of ways to solve problems but also develop the required disposition and competencies to work and communicate in different group settings.

These skills are valuable beyond the 21st Century. In fact, I personally believe if we design think is part of our habits of mind, the world would be a more harmonious place.

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DT refers to processes of thinking for when designing something. I believe it involves creativity, imagination, problem solving, technical-know how, strategies etc
Yes it should be taught in school, as part of the 21CC curriculum, where entrepreneurship is encouraged.

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Design thinking is a form of conceptualising to envisioning a state of a process or a product. It sets one to deep dive the thinking processes and to visualise a formation state.

Should encourage to teach or complement to key subjects like Maths or Science.

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To create a need for better design in the eyes of the user.

it should be taught in schools, but it should not be assessed because our assessment is not good enough yet, to support proper grading