Recent studies and research show that today’s world changes rapidly. It forces us to face abundant information, rapidly changing technology and information as well as complex challenges that emerge in our work fields. This fact emerges questions to us as educators: How will our students gain success in the future? And how are we going to help them to keep up with these? To answer those questions, we need to prepare our students to be able to meet those challenges by redefining the way they work. We need to ensure that our students shift from doing routine tasks into developing non routine tasks.

Why is it important to have design thinking standards as basic in creating a project?

To be able to answer this question, firstly we shared questionnaires to leaders of primary levels as the representatives of teachers. On the questionnaires we ask them to share their opinion what a meaningful activity is, how do they create it and what criteria that make an activity becomes meaningful. 

The 21^st century has brought many challenges for people in all aspects. The increased mobility and the instant information spread demand people to possess good analysis, decision-making and problem solving skills. Applying traditional approaches to face 21^st century challenges seem to be ineffective (Luka, 2014). Therefore, new approach has to be applied.

How do we plan, implement and assess the design thinking projects in the classroom?

There are procedures needed in order to plan, implement and assess a design thinking project in the classroom.