Gedankenexperimente

 Einstein relished what he called Gedankenexperimente, ideas that he twirled around in his head rather than in a lab. That’s what teachers call daydreaming, but if you’re Einstein you get to call them Gedankenexperimente. As these thought experiments remind us, creativity is based on imagination. If we hope to inspire kids to love science, we need to do more than drill them in math and memorized formulas. We should stimulate their minds’ eyes as well. Even let them daydream… [The] ability to visualize the unseen has always been the key to creative genius. As Einstein later put it, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. 

Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, on Einstein’s thought experiments

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Design Thinking Boot Camp

Meadowbrook has welcomed Jessica Artiles from the MIT Edgerton Center as the resident Design Thinking Integration Strategist on-campus. All middle school students dove right into a Design Thinking Bootcamp and they’ve been practicing Visual Thinking in their classrooms ever since! In the bootcamp, students walked through design thinking examples, learned four key creativity strategies, and practiced their Mock-Up Mindsets. A final round of reflection led the students to de-mystify and re-discover how they’ve already been doing design thinking every day...with empathy always at the center of the process.