Empathy, collaboration and experimentation form the three pillars of Design Thinking (DT), an approach that can support the search for innovation with quality, from the perception of value in people’s lives. The concept gained popularity in the early 2000s, when IDEO, one of the most influential and internationally awarded agencies with headquarters in Silicon Valley, California / USA, started to use in their consulting work for public and private organizations around the world.

Design Thinking seeks to create a culture of innovation centered on the human being. It has been used in several areas of business to social causes and aims to stimulate co-creation process for searching solutions that result in value perceived by people. Two years after the launch of Design Thinking for Educators in Brazil, Educadigital Institute is offering an online training course for facilitators for people who speak English, aimed at professionals from all areas of knowledge interested in mediating collaborative educational processes in schools, NGO, businesses and other institutions.

The online platform is Moodle, a free software of a collaborative learning environment that encourages and enables all participants actively, to learn together from available online content, theoretical references and interactive activities. To receive the certificate, the participant will have a month (4 weeks) to create and implement a workshop prototype.

Priscila Gonsales – Ashoka’s Fellow, máster in Education, Family and Technology from Pontifícia Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), posgraduation degrees in Communication Management Process from University of São Paulo, expert in Design Thinking from ESPM-SP and graduated in Jornalism from Casper Líbero University. She has been working with education and technology since 2001. She is founder of Educadigital Institute (www.educadigital.org.br), a NGO in Brasil that works for open education in the digital culture. Consultant of TIC-Educação, a survey annually organized by Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). One of the authors of the books Recursos Educacionais Abertos (www.aberta.org.br/livrorea) and How to Implement an OER Policy (www.educadigital.org.br/guiaEA)

Leila Ribeiro – I’m a tattooed PhD, piercing fake user, karaoke dancer, internet creator known as @leilagirassol, super addicted in series (like GoT, The Walking Dead, Stranger Things, Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot…you know, show me your favorite series and I tell you who you are hahha) and also co-founder of Sala (an education business in Brazil). But if you prefer something more academic I say I’m a Doctor in Information Science, Master in Applied Linguistics, Master in Design and nowadays doing a post-doctoral research in Participatory Design in Education. As you can see, I’m completely nerd but also a creative learner and a subversive teacher who is insane for disruptive learning.