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Susan Nelson,  Coordinator of 3D Design Thinking, Innovation and Personalized Learning for  Spring Lake Park Schools presented on Design Thinking and their 3D model of design. Design Mindsets Tap Into Your Creative Confidence Learn from failure Embrace Ambiguity Be urgently Optimistic Iterate, Iterate, Iterate Why Human Centered Design?  Education full of challenges and opportunities Focus has been on tweaking the system that is fundamentally the same We can't solve our problems using the same kind of thinking we used to create them! -Einstein Human Centered-We are designing for real people Creativity-harness the potential She shared this video to illustrate the importance of design thinking for Fortunate and her mother! Nelsen then shared the background behind making the Embrace warmer and how students at the Stanford dSchool developed the product. Incubators were expensive Children were dying from low birth weight. The Stanford t...

John Spencer , co-author of Empower and Launch, was the Monday keynote at the Minnesota Personalized Learning Summit. John also created "Pencil Chat" many years ago, and I've been in auw of his ideas and thinking. Spencer began with a "Disclaimer" that while many keynotes will only share the highlights, he is a teacher on a journey trying to figure things out, and behind the success there has been failure. No one has dysentery in Oregon! He began by a story of being nerdy and shy in 8th grade, and hiding out in the bathroom. During a History Day project, he didn't like the sound of his voice. His teacher, Mrs. Smoot said,  "when you hide your voice, you rob the world of your creativity, and I'm not going to let you do that!" He presented to his class, then school, then regionally, then at the national conference, which changed his life! Every day he asks his kids, "What did you make today?" Making is magic, and make...