Design Challenge 8: Chindogu – Designing Purely for the Joy of Design

We often think of design as the creation of plan or object for a specific function. We use a design process to move our thinking from initial ideas to conceptual sketches. From the sketches, we can then create working prototypes that we can test and evaluate. When we use design thinking, we engage in human centred design, focusing our design on how the end user might use our prototype to address a real problem.

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creativity, design, sociology, imagination, adst, arts education

Design Challenge 5: Froebel’s Gifts – Building Blocks to Learning in Early Childhood and Primary Education

What’s common among many of the leading architects of the 20th century? They attended Montessori Schools and learned by playing with and exploring Froebel’s Gifts.

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imagination, creativity, self-confidence, accomplishment, responsibility, adst, physical and health education, early learning, readiness, pre-number skills, size, shape, matching, classification, critical thinking, problem solving