Hello Thea, Thank you for your email, I would love to contribute, too. Related to the main question you posed, “What is the impact of engaging with design thinking on students' critical thinking, reflection, and empathy?”, I am sharing here a conference paper that we are going to present at the Constructionism 2025 conference. The data is from a vocational high school (for sample heterogeneity). The paper discusses the reflective practices that emerge when students engage in learning activities based on Design Thinking methodology and the role of feedback activities in developing reflective and critical thinking. It is based on a preliminary thematic analysis, but I can share more insights and data on the case regarding reflection and critical thinking if you think this is useful and relevant to what you have in mind to write about. Let me know what you think, Best regards, Christina -- Christina Gkreka (PhD) Educational Technology Lab (ETL) Department of Educational Studies National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Dear all, If you want to join the meeting today at 13.00 UK, the link is here Microsoft Teams Need help?<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting?omkt=en-GB> Join the meeting now<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWVlMTlkMDctY… Meeting ID: 330 049 865 484 Passcode: nJ7Ph9KA Best, Thea From: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] &lt;christothea.herodotou(a)open.ac.uk&gt; Date: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 09:33 To: Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Subject: Re: Journal paper - pre/post survey analysis Dear all, Following up my previous email, thanks to those who already expressed interest in contributing to the writing of the paper. To help you decide whether you would like to participate, I drafted an outline of the paper here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pgjn_kLbdryA19clzjQ-JaVC_H88MneyJLREhn2… I also scheduled a meeting on the 30th of May, Friday to discuss and allocate responsibilities. Look forward to hearing from you. Best, Thea From: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] &lt;christothea.herodotou(a)open.ac.uk&gt; Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025 at 08:47 To: Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Subject: Journal paper - pre/post survey analysis Dear all, Hope you are well, in the roadmap of publications doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8eOpdMNTXBlxsRbRx2JRbQKVLNU0Yj1PxRFO4x… I expressed interest in writing a paper about: “What is the impact of engaging with design thinking on students' critical thinking, reflection, and empathy?” I’m thinking of collating survey data from across partners and conduct a statistical analysis of pre/post responses considering for contextual factors such as country, school type, student performance, age, gender. This will address some of the criticism we received from mis4TEL reviewers last year regarding the paper we published and which we addressed by adding the below: “In addition, we aim to address two limitations of this study: a) analyse data considering for the sample’s heterogeneity e.g, different ages, backgrounds, school type, locations, enabling comparisons between e.g., different types of schools, and an understanding of the conditions under which the proposed intervention may work (or not) well” Would you be interested in contributing? Pls let me know and I can draft a plan with activities and meetings to take this forward. Best, Thea

Dear all, A gentle reminder about the below – if you have done so, pls ignore my email. Pls see deadlines and info below. Best, Thea From: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] &lt;christothea.herodotou(a)open.ac.uk&gt; Date: Friday, 30 May 2025 at 13:51 To: Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Subject: Re: Journal paper - pre/post survey analysis Dear all, I share some notes and actions from the meeting today: Criteria for selecting student sample for the paper: * Use of nQuire and/or Choico/Sorbet (we excluded Malt2 and Gears) * Age range of 13-16 * Sample size of approx. 40 students (it can be more than one class, do include all students from selected classes) * Year 3 data (if not enough data or data does not meet the criteria, then use Year 2 data) – avoid cases of teachers who omitted stages of DT in their teaching Timeline: 1. 20th June: send cases (student codes of approx. 40 students) to Jake to pull out the data we need 2. 10th July: Jake to share the dataset with Thea/Sagun for analysis. 3. Submit paper by end of August. @Shamim @Marcelo Milrad<mailto:marcelo.milrad@lnu.se> Do you know who to contact in Norway? It would be good to have some of their data included in the analysis. Best, Thea From: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] via Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Date: Friday, 30 May 2025 at 12:31 To: Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Subject: [Extendt2_all] Re: Journal paper - pre/post survey analysis External email: if the sender or content looks suspicious, please click the Report Message icon, or forward it to report-phishing Dear all, If you want to join the meeting today at 13.00 UK, the link is here Microsoft Teams Need help?<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting?omkt=en-GB> Join the meeting now<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWVlMTlkMDctY… Meeting ID: 330 049 865 484 Passcode: nJ7Ph9KA Best, Thea From: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] &lt;christothea.herodotou(a)open.ac.uk&gt; Date: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 09:33 To: Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Subject: Re: Journal paper - pre/post survey analysis Dear all, Following up my previous email, thanks to those who already expressed interest in contributing to the writing of the paper. To help you decide whether you would like to participate, I drafted an outline of the paper here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pgjn_kLbdryA19clzjQ-JaVC_H88MneyJLREhn2… I also scheduled a meeting on the 30th of May, Friday to discuss and allocate responsibilities. Look forward to hearing from you. Best, Thea From: Christothea.Herodotou [She/Her] &lt;christothea.herodotou(a)open.ac.uk&gt; Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025 at 08:47 To: Extendt2_all &lt;extendt2_all(a)lists.sunet.se&gt; Subject: Journal paper - pre/post survey analysis Dear all, Hope you are well, in the roadmap of publications doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8eOpdMNTXBlxsRbRx2JRbQKVLNU0Yj1PxRFO4x… I expressed interest in writing a paper about: “What is the impact of engaging with design thinking on students' critical thinking, reflection, and empathy?” I’m thinking of collating survey data from across partners and conduct a statistical analysis of pre/post responses considering for contextual factors such as country, school type, student performance, age, gender. This will address some of the criticism we received from mis4TEL reviewers last year regarding the paper we published and which we addressed by adding the below: “In addition, we aim to address two limitations of this study: a) analyse data considering for the sample’s heterogeneity e.g, different ages, backgrounds, school type, locations, enabling comparisons between e.g., different types of schools, and an understanding of the conditions under which the proposed intervention may work (or not) well” Would you be interested in contributing? Pls let me know and I can draft a plan with activities and meetings to take this forward. Best, Thea

Hello Thea and all, I am noting here the information you asked for: School context 1. Class (if you have classes from different schools) [state the below for each class]: Two classes: Keys starting with 2204 are one class, and keys starting with 2203 a different class. Each class is in a different school. 2. Private or public school [state]: Both public. Regarding class 2203, this is public but also a model/experimental school, meaning that is has close collaboration with the university and other stakeholders to implement and test innovative pedagogical approaches. Admissions are selective. 3. Deprivation level (as measured in your country) e.g. wealthy/poor neighbourhood [state]: Regarding 2203, high deprivation level Regarding 2204, medium deprivation level For anything else needed, please let me know. Best, Christina -- Christina Gkreka (PhD) Educational Technology Lab (ETL) Department of Educational Studies National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece