Design thinking : New era innovator teachers

Abstract

          The objective of this article was to present the process of developing an innovative professional for teacher students to be able to create a problem solving innovation for teaching and learning through five design thinking processes in a new digital environment. The first step was to understand users' problems via an indepth problem study of the target audience, an observation, an inquiry and getting involved in that particular situation. The next process was to interpret the real problem and set the target group’s needs before leading to the next brainstorming process. This process was to creatively mobilize ideas of the target group to reach the conclusions before entering to the innovative prototyping. After the conclusion was completed, the prototyping process was taken by using the obtained conclusion from the target group then created a rough concrete work. The last process was to test the prototype that had been built with the target audience for the reflection. If there was any fault, the process would be improved until the most complete prototype was obtained. These five phases of design thinking were the important key of the education management system that would drive teacher students as an important national force towards innovation for the development of Thailand. The occupational innovation such as being able to invent the problem solving innovation for teaching and learning then perfectly contributed to learners. As well as innovations to solve problems in daily life could create long term sustainable socio-economic in the present context.