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From Empathy to Action: Design Thinking Mindsets for Future Ready Learning with Glitch Nadya Shaznay Patel (10760205) Jason Yew (25135937) Michael Chia (25135938) Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh (14569124) Na Yeon Ko (17300782) Sheena Lai (25135942) Chen Junhua (25135944) Tamsin Greulich-Smith (25135946) Educational technology and computing design innovation intellectual agility critical design thinking human-centred approach societal impact design mindsets <p dir="ltr">This ninety-minute, hands-on, highly interactive workshop equipseducators to strengthen design-driven, futures-oriented skills and mindsets in Applied Learning and project work across the primary and secondary levels. Co-facilitated byeducators from Waterway Primary School and Serangoon Garden Secondary School,with strong support from Singapore Institute of Technology and Design Singapore Council, the session demonstrates how Design Innovation can be embedded beyond signature Innovation Weeks into interdisciplinary programmes and lessons across subjects. Participants will experience a rapid design cycle using an authentic school-based challenge, practising facilitation moves that cultivate intellectual agility through disciplined questioning, empathy-based insight gathering, and robust problem reframinginto clear and testable How Might We challenges. To stretch student thinking towardssustainable and responsible solutions, teachers will also practise a lightweight“alternative future scenarios” prompt that helps learners anticipate how needs, constraints, and behaviours may change over time, and refine solutions accordingly. A key feature of the workshop is Glitch, a digital tool developed through a multi-stakeholder collaboration led by Design Singapore 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-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 as a 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 to prototyping and feedback, supported by Glitch routines that sustain reflection and iteration. Practical takeaways include ready-to-use templates for personas, empathy mapping, user needs statements, How Might We framing, rapid prototyping, and peertesting, as well as sample implementation pathways drawn from Maker's education in Waterway Primary and from ALP design thinking at Serangoon Garden Secondary. Participating schools and teachers will be offered complimentary Glitch pilot accounts to support post-workshop experimentation and adoption within the school.</p> 2026-09-29T00:00:00Z Text Conference contribution 10.25447/sit.34021887.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/From_Empathy_to_Action_Design_Thinking_Mindsets_for_Future_Ready_Learning_with_Glitch/34021887 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0