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Why Design Thinking Isn't Just for Techies

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" Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley , the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. Schools often assume that design thinking is a "techie thing" and send their edtech coordinators and directors to design-thinking workshops.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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Sidenote: Someone from the Clayton Christensen Institute recently invoked the history of household appliances in an op-ed for Edsurge , asking “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.”