A year-end student showcase celebrated design thinking in the classroom on April 27, 2017. Design thinking innovates by considering people's needs, technology possibilities, and requirements for professional success. At our showcase, teachers, students and administrators demonstrated design-thinking projects which were inspired by a four-day Xavier University workshop attended last summer by 20 teachers and administrators from Catholic schools in the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Since then, these educators have been collaborating within the diocese and with local industry experts to provide students with unique classroom experiences aligned with relevant, real-life skills such as:
- empathy
- team work
- leadership
- creative thinking
- innovative problem solving
The showcase also included a free opportunity to see the documentary Screenagers: Growing up in the Digital Age.
About Screenagers:
Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that happening with her own kids and began a quest to uncover how it might impact their development. As with her other two award-winning documentaries on mental health, Ruston takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and also offers solutions on how adults can empower their kids to best navigate the digital world to find balance.
SCREENAGERS addresses the most pervasive parenting issue of our time head on—depicting teen struggles over social media, video games and internet addiction. The film empowers kids to best navigate the digital world and provides practical resources to help them do it.