430: What you Need to Know about Design Thinking for ELA

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | Education by Betsy Potash

Jul 1, 202615:24Education

Design thinking is a framework for creating things. And creating things, as Semour Papert argued in his theory of constructionism, is the kind of "hard fun" that engages people in meaningful work that helps them stretch...

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