Inspire: Pimpama State Secondary College
Pimpama State Secondary College (PSSC) opened in 2013 with Year 7 and 8 students, providing a unique opportunity to build the principles of Design Thinking…
Case Study: Saving Humpty
Saving Humpty was delivered at Kelvin Grove State College, Brisbane, Australia as one of three full-day workshops during a six-month long Designing Futures program in…
Toolkit: AdSpace
AdSpace is a series of activities that helps students develop an understanding of roles within the advertising industry and how these roles work to create…
Toolkit: Mental Aerobics
Mental Aerobics is a series of short exercises designed to stretch the mind and prepare students for creative thinking. These exercises are supported by elements…
Toolkit: Reverse Design
Reverse design is an exercise to help students discover the design decisions of a device, object or system through observation and analysis of its structure,…
Inspire: Rhys Cassidy
Rhys Cassidy, Vice President of ATOM QLD and a Film, Media and English Teacher at Runcorn State High School presented at a special Garage Gamer…
Inspire: Sophisticated science in game design
A representation of an ecosystem that explores the consumption of energy over time. A study of the attractive and repulsive forces of the atom. A…
Inspire: Ideo’s Design Thinking For Educators Toolkit (Second Edition)
With the release of the second edition of the Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit, Ideo have made the implementation of design thinking even easier. Design…
Case Study: Gamestar Mechanic
While there are many educational games that deliver standard classroom subjects in game form, or which introduce students to basic programming skills, Gamestar Mechanic takes…
Inspire: Adam Jefford
Adam Jefford (2012 Queensland-Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum Fellow) speaks to Design Minds about his experience in New York and the value of a learning…
Toolkit: Gamestar Mechanic
A toolkit designed to introduce students to the guiding principles of game design and systems thinking, using Gamestar Mechanic, an online digital learning platform and…
Kelvin Grove State College ‘Excellence Program in Art & Design’
State Library of Queensland, through Design Minds is proud to announce our support of Kelvin Grove State College’s (KGSC) ‘Excellence Program in Art & Design’.…