Project Details
65% of children studying in primary schools today will ultimately work in jobs that currently have not yet existed (WEF report 2016). The complex and unpredictable future has created challenges for nurturing student educators for the 21st century. Collaborate with the PolyU Jockey Club ‘Operation SoInno’, this course aims to nurture social innovative and reflective student educators who can find solutions to real-world problems and generate innovative ideas to create a better future. Our student educators will first learn about the theoretical underpinnings of design thinking and the reflective learning cycles in experiential education. Then they will work in cross-disciplinary teams to put their knowledge into practice – facilitating secondary school students’ learning process in subject-based design thinking and helping them to reflect upon themselves as active learners. Student educators will integrate social innovation and humanity through the lens of design thinking and develop important 21st century skills.