Stanford d.school

The Stanford d.School has put it's design approach to work with K-12 educational experiments in both curriculum and classroom development. These approaches are living experiments based on the design approaches that companies like IDEO have used to meet the challenges and solve the problems of clients. The thinking seems to be that if an approach like that works for big clients in industry, why not apply it to how we teach and learn. 


You can view a slideshow that gives an overview of their first two years at the website.


An experiment like this is worth watching because it tells us something about how design approaches might translate into workspaces - or not. Is this a new edge in education or a bit of splash and fizz that cannot deliver on the expectations we have for education?