From Empathy to Action: Design Thinking Mindsets for Future Ready Learning with Glitch

Akey feature of the workshop is Glitch, a digital tool developed through a multi-stakeholder collaboration led by DesignSingapore Council, in close partnership with SITDesign Factory and Design Consultancy Chemistry. Glitch helps students practise fivedesign mindsets, curiosity, optimism, empathy, tenacity, and courage, through self-</p><p dir="ltr">guided real-world quests and weekly scenario quests that require reflective decision-making rather than one correct answer.

Participants will learn how Glitch can function asa low-stakes practice layer that strengthens learner motivation, socioemotional growth,and iterative problem-solving, while generating evidence of mindset development overtime. Learning objective for participants: by the end of the workshop, educators will beable to design and facilitate a short design learning sequence for their own subject orprogramme that builds future-ready mindsets and leads students from empathy toprototyping and feedback, supported by Glitch routines that sustain reflection anditeration.

Practical takeaways include ready-to-use templates for personas, empathymapping, user needs statements, How Might We framing, rapid prototyping, and peertesting, as well as sample implementation pathways drawn from Maker's education inWaterway Primary and from ALP design thinking at Serangoon Garden Secondary.Participating schools and teachers will be offered complimentary Glitch pilot accounts tosupport post-workshop experimentation and adoption within the school.</p>