Mar 20, 2020
The STARTedUP Foundation, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based educational innovation foundation, announced this week that it's making available free digital curriculum in the wake of widespread coronavirus school closures.
In today’s episode, Curt Mercadante interviews Don Wettrick, president and CEO of the foundation.
"What an opportunity we have. A lot of people, millions of students are going to have downtime and my fear was that they were just going to get on TikTok and watch 18 different people dance renegade the same damn way and the same damn time," said Don Wettrick, president of the foundation. "So instead I wanted to like, 'Hey, might you be introduced to a new way of thinking? Might you be introduced to some skills that we have kind of worked on and refined over the last five, six years in our class?'
"And so yeah, in design thinking I had empathy for our end-user, which is either parents, teachers or students. And we decided to kind of give an abbreviated version of our class."
Listen to the full episode to learn more.
Get the curriculum: https://startedupfoundation.org/oae