Authors:
Diane Pruneau
and
Joanne Langis
Affiliation:
Universite de Moncton, Canada
Keyword(s):
Design Thinking, Environmental Problems, ICT, Problem Solving.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Communities of Practice
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Distance Education
;
Higher Order Thinking Skills
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Ubiquitous Learning
;
Virtual Labs and Virtual Classrooms
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Environmental problems are complex, open and poorly defined. University students can be trained to solve
environmental problems and to create actions to repair, preserve, manage or improve the environment.
Some organizations have begun using design thinking with ICT to help students and the public solve
complex problems. Design thinking is a creative and collaborative form of work during which intuition is
important, solutions are numerous, experimentation arrives quickly, failure is perceived as learning and,
mostly, consumers’ needs are taken into consideration. In the framework of a rigorous process and specific
tools, design thinking calls in creative and analytical modes of reasoning for the development of products,
services and healthy places adapted to the targeted public. Also, if we want to use ICT to facilitate the
design thinking stages, various applications are available: Blendspace (to store all the information found
about a problem), Lino (to share pictures of the probl
em), ICardSort (to link and sort ideas), Loomio (to
choose a solution), Padlet (to draw prototypes in teams) and Wrike (to plan in a team).
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