Building Creative Minds

In this episode, host James Gamage interviews Amanda MacIntyre-Steel, a Complementary Curriculum Specialist with the Calgary Board of Education (CBE). Amanda is a strong advocate for design thinking in teaching and shares her extensive background in Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) and Career and Technology Studies (CTS). She discusses her initiatives, including the Calgary Career and Technology Education Conference and the CTF gallery, which showcase student work and foster connections among teachers. Amanda also provides insights into her design thinking book study group and its impact on educators. She emphasizes the importance of supporting students through creative learning processes and highlights various national and local initiatives that promote design thinking in education.

 

Topics discussed in this episode.

• Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student
• United Nations 17 Sustainable Goals
• Design Thinking for Educators - IDEO
• Dr. John Spencer
• Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley

 

In the spirit of our journey to promote reconciliation, we would like to honour the truth of our shared history and acknowledge Treaty 7 territory and the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, that includes the Kainai, Siksika, and Piikani First Nations. We acknowledge the traditional lands of the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations. We would also like to recognize the Métis people, and the Inuit people who have made their home here in Mohk’insstsis, also known as Calgary.