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Microsoft‘s video of a vision on what the year 2019 will look like. I wonder what kind of “visions” Apple is developing for the year 2018? ;-)

(via eLearning Blog TU Graz)

Last Sunday morning, I had the chance to present my research project about “Designing Learning Environments with Social Media“. Although it was the first presentation on Sunday morning, I had to reach the audience‘s attention by using the bees and the birds methaper for the line of arguments in my presentation. Furthermore ,the new Prezi [...]

My colleague here at EdLab, Arianna Choi, produced a nice little video at the last EdLab Seminar using Animoto.
She mentioned: “The 30-sec animated photo/(text) video turned out to be more like a promotional video than a digital documentation of participant observation. It is exciting, anyway, to empower non-professionals to produce an animated motion video.”
I totally [...]

Business week posted two intersting videos about design thinking:
What Makes Design Thinking Special?
“How is design thinking different from process re-engineering or business consulting?”

How academia can embrace design thinking?
“How can business schools restructure to incorporate design thinking into their curricula?”

…right on time, Hasso Plattner and Co. published a book about “Design Thinking”… in german!?
Hasso [...]

…K-12 International Team 2009!
What is the d.prize?
d.school students spend a huge amount of time and effort getting out of their comfort zone, absorbing a powerful new design process, experimenting with radical collaboration, and delivering real solutions for the real needs of real people in real time. The d.prize is one of our ways to give [...]

…at the: TCETC 2009 Conference: Technology, Media and Designs for Learning

“Dear Frederik G. Pferdt, We are pleased to inform you that your proposal entitled “Designing Learning Environments with Social Media” submitted for consideration for TCETC 2009, has been accepted for a paper presentation. To ensure the highest quality of presentations at the conference, your proposal [...]

During my first days here in NYC at Columbia University, I participated in an EdLab group meeting and Joann (who blogged about the tool here) used this new presentation tool – called Prezi -for her talk. I remembered, that we used this tool once at the d.school 24h design challenge but just forgot how cool [...]

Short business plan developed at the e-Bootcamp at BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students) last week.
“Started in 2009, the Entrepreneurial Bootcamp is a week-long intensive program that provides participants with an intimate knowledge of the processes and challenges that any entrepreneur will face.  Through this program, participants will acquire the management and leadership skills [...]

Die Morgenstunden der letzten Woche standen jeweils ganz im Zeichen von “Innovationsentwicklung live”. Der 24 Stunden Design Thinking Challenge des Design All Star Teams hier an der d.school in Stanford mit Studierenden am HPI in Potsdam war als Innovationslabor gedacht, in dem innerhalb 24 Stunden neue Ideen und Lösungen für Produkte und Dienstleistungen im IT [...]

Design Thinking entwickelt sich zu einem disziplinenübergreifenden Ansatz, der, wie ich denke, auch für innovative Lehr-Lernkonzepte angewandt werden könnte. Der Design-Thinking Prozess hier an der d.school und am Center for Design Research besteht dabei aus folgenden Phasen:

Design thinking:

Sehr anschaulich und mit einigem Unterhaltungswert stellt diese 3-teilige Reportage vor, was Design Thinking in der “Praxis” heißt. [...]