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Driving Questions

  1. How do different cultural backgrounds affect students' learning styles and attitudes?
  2. How can design thinking be used to solve possible problems in learning?

Project Introduction

Disciplines/Subjects: Interdisciplinary projects

Key Themes: Communication and cooperation, Creative expression, Social Awareness & Community Engagement, empathy


This project focuses on the design thinking workshop, through the investigation of students' learning styles and environments in different cultural backgrounds, designs prototypes to solve practical learning problems, tests and iterates, and finally realizes the purpose of "enjoying learning" through students' own efforts.

The project is divided into two parts: on-campus workshops and off-campus practice investigations, with design thinking as the main activity in campus and off-campus practice visits to Langde Primary School in Leishan County, Guizhou Province.The children carried out in-depth interaction and communication activities with the same grade students of Langde Primary School.

Core Competency

Habits of mind:

  1. Inquiry-based thinking and curiosity
  2. Ability to respect and support each other as a team
  3. Empathy


Cognitive skills:

  1. Define a design problem
  2. Designing a Proposal
  3. Engage, respond, and reflet
  4. Recognize the feelings and perspectives of others