startingbloc 2012: design thinking & prototyping workshop
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Real world design.prototyping as a methodology
Open our office to the world.
Continue the conversation about design & social innovation.
Who are we?
Five things you should know about The Third Teacher+
We were born out of a wicked question.
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inquiry to practice.
How can design transform teaching & learning?
How can the design process transform teaching & learning?
NOUN. verb.
“We’re going to have a BABY.”
“We’re going to have a BABY.”
“We’re going to have burping, messing, cooing, crawling
discovering, spilling, learning, growing, crying, loving...”
NOUN. verb.SPACES, CLASSROOMS,
CITIES, HOSPITALS, OFFICES...WORKING, LEARNING, LIVING,
GROWING, HEALING...
Shared inquiry. Co-created artifact.
Living practice.
A journey from question to consultancy.
We are an interdisciplinary & t-shaped team.
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with our powers combined...
Trung LeARCHITECT
@lecannondesign
Christian LongEDUCATOR
@christianlong
Sarah MalinANTHROPOLOGIST
@sarahcmalin
Melanie KahlSTRATEGIST
@melaniekahl
Emi DayDESIGNER/EDUCATOR
We are concerned with theecology of learning.
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holistic thinking, baby.
Setting the table for connection & conversation
on the future of learning.
We are a laboratory for a global firm.
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go-go gadget, intraprenuership!
We believe in the power of design and the empowering
process of design.
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yes. we. can.
1. A CULTURE OF CRITICAL COLLABORATION
2. INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEM SOLVING, EVERY DAY
3. TINKERING WITH SOLUTIONS AND RECLAIMING FAILURE
4. THE SHARED POWER OF THE PENCIL AND PIXEL
how will my education serve the world positively?
DISCOVER. ACTIVATE. DESIGN.
sketchespatternsideas conceptsobservations
DISCOVER ACTIVATE STRATEGIZE LAUNCH
PROTOTYPEEMERGE DEVELOP REFINEINQUIRE
stories vision
OUR PROCESS
We love what we do.
6oh yeah, one more thing...
...and who we work with.
Create a new language of play to inform the design of an outdoor learning environment.
Design a city college that empowers real world experience for the health professions.
Hack a classroom into a story studio to prototype a new classroom strategy for the school.
Embody and empower Montessori pedagogy in Chiaravalle’s community spaces.
DESIGN?
Design for America (DFA) is an award winning network of student-led studios creating local and social impact through design.
INTERDISCIPLINARYCOLLABORATION
small small small
small
Right Angle
How can we use less water to wash dishes in the cafeteria?
SwipeSense
How can we reduce hospital acquired infections?
Fruit BuddiHow can we engage children with healthy food in grocery stores?
HOW DO WE WORK? J
Look Locally
Create Fervently
Act Fearlessly
We are a generation of creative activists reinventing our world.
The ChallengeTopic: Education
ProcessUnderstand: Personas & JourneyCreate: Ideate & Prototype
Pitch
Education.
More people are starting college.
But of the 70% who start post secondary, less than half finish in 6 years.
Tuition rates have grown at three times therate of inflation.
whoa.
By 2018, two-thirds of all jobs will require some post secondary education.
Labor economists estimate that the United States will fall 3 million degrees short.
Thirty-three states have two-year
completion rates at or below 25%.
In 13 states, less than 15% of students who start at
two-year colleges graduated within 150% of
normal time to degree.
How might we design a better bridge between
high school and a student’s next steps to
college or career?
...help families navigate post-secondary choices and processes?
...help students preview careers more effectively?
...help teachers pursue professional development
opportunities?
“School is good at prepping for the student, but not the whole person”
STUDENT REFLECTION IN TEEN SURVEY
“[As an adult] I want to be able to support myself in every way possible: financially, emotionally/mentally, physically.”
STUDENT REFLECTION AFTER TEEN DESIGN LAB
“Turning a leap into a step”STUDENT REFLECTION AT TEEN DESIGN LAB
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPDINNER CONVERSATION STARTER
Your turn. [roll up your sleeves.]
UNDERSTAND
CREATE
IMPLEMENT
REFRAMEIDENTIFY IMMERSE
UNDERSTAND
REFRAMEIDENTIFY IMMERSE
UNDERSTAND
IMMERSE
LiamTinkerer who’s failing schoolLiam is a Junior in Noble Street Charter high school. He’s the middle child of three with a full-‐=me working mom. His parents divorced when he was a kid, so it’s mostly just him, his mom and two brothers.
Liam spends a lot of =me to himself. He oDen gets caught up in his own world and is always fascinated by things around him. His mom has yelled at him numerous =mes for taking apart their kitchen appliances. What his mom doesn’t realize is that Liam is able to put these parts back and his interests have even extended into computers. Liam’s friends will even bring him broken computers to fix and re-‐sell.
What might be the experience of Liam working passionately on his “side projects” but also failing school?
NancyExperienced teacher seeking supportNancy has been a teacher for the last 20 years. She loves what she does, but knows she can challenge herself more. The pressure of tes=ng has zapped her crea=vity and she is nervous about integra=ng new technology into her curriculum. The stakes are geLng higher for her students, and she is overwhelmed by what it might take to teach skills for the new workplace.
She currently works in a Chicago Public School where there are no funds for her to aNend conferences, workshops, or pursue coursework outside of school hours to improve her skills or expand her knowledge. This makes her lose steam in her work-‐-‐ feeling undervalued and under s=mulated.
What might be the experience of feeling like professional development for new teaching is overwhelming and inaccessible–– but more needed than ever?
MonicaNursing student balancing familyMonica is in her first year of Malcolm X’s City College of Chicago nursing program. As a first genera=on college student, Monica is incredibly proud to be geLng her degree and geLng one step closer to achieving the life her parents moved to the US for.
Monica loves nursing and having her own apartment and is doing great in class. Unfortunately however, Monica’s mom was just diagnosed with cancer. Her father is a full-‐=me security guard and works incredibly hard to support the family.
Her already stretched lifestyle of classes, independence, and work is being pushed to the limits with this new strain on her family. She feels alone.
What might be the experience of Monica facing the choice to support her family now versus pursuing an education she know will benefit them all in the long run?
What is your user’s journey and where
could design make a difference?
REFRAMEIDENTIFY IMMERSE
UNDERSTAND
REFRAME
How can we conserve more water?
How can we reduce the amount of water needed to wash dishes in our school’s cafeteria?
How can we get cafeteria customers to intuitively scrape their plates?
Ideate!
Befor kicking off a project, you’ll want to do a shallow dive of doing second-ary research and talking to a few experts to scope a project that is Daring, Feasible and Applicable to communities throughout the US. Once your team if formed, together, you’ll want to do a deep-dive to get to know your users and community to further scope the project. You’ll want to do this togeth-er so that the whole team really understands the problem you are trying to solve for. If the challenge statement is too specific, it might work better for a one day worskhop and if it’s too broad, like we learned previously, the proj-ect can be too general to solve for in a meaningful way.
Prototype
IMPACT
PITCH
Act Fearlessly
Thank you
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@thethirdteacherwww.thethirdteacherplus.com
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