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Combining Design Thinking with Emerging Technologies in K-12 Education

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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference (MIS4TEL 2023)

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Abstract

The use of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and 3D printing are amongst the EU targeted actions for supporting the digital transformation of education. Yet, despite these technologies being accessible to education stakeholders, there is a lack of concrete pedagogy and teachers’ professional development for their meaningful integration into the current educational context. Extending Design Thinking with Emerging Digital Technologies – Exten (D.T.)2 - is a European funded project aiming to use emerging technologies to enhance the pedagogical value, sustainable digitization, and potential for wide deployment of Design Thinking (DT). DT is a promising pedagogical innovation, based on interdisciplinary co-creation, that can lead to sustainable educational innovation and development of students’ 21st century skills. In this paper, we describe the main components of the proposed educational transformation as developed during the first year of Exten (D.T.)2 including the theoretical foundations of the approach, the co-creation processes for meaningful engagement of teachers with educational innovation. Moreover, we present the educational technology tools (design, extensions, architecture) that are used in the project and the evaluation approach for capturing impact on improving students’ skills and competencies.

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The Extending Design Thinking with Emerging Digital Technologies EU project Grant agreement 101060231.

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  1. Linnaeus University, Hus D, 2269D, Växjö, Sweden

    Marcelo Milrad & Alisa Lincke

  2. Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Christothea Herodotou & Sagun Shrestha

  3. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 157 72, Athens, Greece

    Marianthi Grizioti

  4. The University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Carina Girvan

  5. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 1, 7034, Trondheim, Norway

    Sofia Papavlasopoulou & Feiran Zhang

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Zuzana Kubincová

  2. University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Federica Caruso

  3. Universitetet i Tromsø (UiT) – Norges arktiske universitet, Tromsø, Norway

    Tae-eun Kim

  4. Technical University of Sofia , Sofia, Bulgaria

    Malinka Ivanova

  5. Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Coppito, Italy

    Loreto Lancia

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, FISCIANO, Salerno, Italy

    Maria Angela Pellegrino

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Milrad, M. et al. (2023). Combining Design Thinking with Emerging Technologies in K-12 Education. In: Kubincová, Z., Caruso, F., Kim, Te., Ivanova, M., Lancia, L., Pellegrino, M.A. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 769. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42134-1_2

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