#dtk12chat Archive
Please join us for a weekly conversation about design thinking in K12 education. We will have a variety of moderators with a wide range and depth of design thinking experiences. Each week, we will connect the dots to the design thinking methodology and how it can and will play a bigger role in today’s K12 educational arena.
Wednesday February 3, 2016
9:00 PM EST
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Hello world! Welcome to another edition of .. I'm urbie, tonight's moderator.
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Please take a moment to introduce yourself.. who you are and where you're from.
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Hi all! Chris in Atlanta. 3rd gr teacher
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Ok. I'll start. I'm urbie. I'm an instructional designer. Much like a cruise director I help people engage with learning.
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May need to be in and out of the tonight; trying to clear my docket to focus on this Saturday
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Hi Chris! Thank you so much for joining us. I look forward to learning from your perspective.
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Not MY boss; he agrees. I can just do it if I want, but got to get the team on board.
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Thank you for participating Dan! Where's ?
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'Tis 9 PM in the East, 6 PM in the West and other times other places, so it's always time for : design thinking in K-12 Edu
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Hello Matt! It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Welcome to
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I use Legos in class for so many things: gramm. vocab: we build phrases w/lego
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happening Sat Feb 6 right here Farmington, Maine; 122 folks registered!
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Hi Kathryn! Thank you for coming to
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Hello ! Kathryn from Los Angeles
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Cool! I'm celebrating a birthday by going to in California Saturday
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Gonna pop in and out of & . Prepping for some UbD PD tmrw w/ & awesome Maine Ts
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Okido.. here's the first question..
What do you find puzzling about design thinking?
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hello there Kathryn! Fantastic to have you join tonight
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A1a Most of my experience with problems is on the creation side. A topic for another chat. Solving 'em can get kinda techy..
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A1: the task of looking for DT and formalizing it
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Is this thing on? Can anyone see my tweets?
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A1: My problems are usually w/ focus. Creativity is easy- but focusing it can be hard for me
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A1 The thing I like about design thinking is the empathy piece. It's the problem solving method with a heart. Yours. Mine. Ours.
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tell us more about this focus where?
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Yep! Focus can be a problem. I like how help from others makes it happen.
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Having bizarro prob on tonight; is modding & his tweets are showing up on his stream & on his profile, but I'm not seeing
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i wonder if practicing is the most difficult piece of the puzzle
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. I just got a bunch o' likes from you. Is the feed feeding?
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anywhere ;) I like coming up w/ ideas but don’t always follow through w/ the good ones
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Yes! Working w/ others is really helpful for this!
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I think it's most encouraging piece. Sometimes mixed up with sympathy. But empathy rocks if we open up to it
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me too and might be more out than in.
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I can see the tweets for me the hard part is coming up with questions to actually make the empathy meaningful
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Is anyone else having strange issues with tonight?
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I am the same way! I need to be surrounded by others to call me out, offer constraints and move me to
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Next question coming in two seconds..
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Q2 What do you think about the term: Out-of-the-box thinking?
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Ela from Boston just joining post-kids-bedtime...catching up.
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I just feel bad bc I don't know how many ppl this is true for tonight; and has some good Qs
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A2: Out-of-the-box thinking is overused! Love the meaning of it though.
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Hi Ela! Thank you for joining us for
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A2: I do not like it It tends to divide people and ideas. it also can intimidate and keep people from taking risks
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A2a A while back I was an electronics technician. I had a tool box. I thought everything I needed to solve props was inside..
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that’s what makes teamwork awesome: we all bring different skills!
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A2b Nope. Over time, a long time actually, it was as much about learning how others felt about its effects. DT made pieces fit.
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Mindy in SD, CA A2: guiding adults "out of the box" is always the hardest part
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It can intimidate ppl- definitely!
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Yes! Different skills AND perspectives. It's cool how we add respective realities to framing problems.
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A2: it's run aground on the seas of cliche; it's common language at least
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agree. that type of collaboration needs the strong foundation of growth in the culture
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Ghosts in the machine tonight messing w our mod ; current Q is around the term "out of the box thinking" thoughts on it?
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Okay.. an unscripted question.. given technical difficulties, HMW overcome? Feelings & thoughts?
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that and knowing enough about yourself to accept the structure and “move on” for example
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. what works for you? I struggle w getting familiar adults out of the box; but strangers?
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Good question ;) It seems to be working ok on Tweetdeck..
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via : Okay.. an unscripted question.. given technical difficulties, HMW overcome? Feelings & thoughts?
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We soldier on, against the beating of the tides, and do our best to have a convo here in the space tonight bc we got neat ppl
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I suppose we'll push on then. I'm on Tweetdeck, too on my Mac.
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. I haven't seen anything from you tonight, Tara :(
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. I agree, esp when adults can't get a visual of what's actually outside of the box
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overcoming F&T hinges on the of the comm, , and how willing are you to receive&give effective feedback
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Fun and pop culture. Getting people in a good mood & thinking @ non-ed topics at 1st
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A3 This past August Mrs let me go to a . There I learned about .. have you seen it?
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Good moods r good. I'd rather solve problems positively than the other way
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Right? I tend to forget t/t w familiar folk; I get right into so I don't "waste time"
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Create an environment of safety and show how wild ideas can actually be brought back into the realm of possibility
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A3: love Haven’t fully used it in class yet, but English colleague just used it this week & used Ts for dry run= gr8
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tonight we are finding many users unable to see all tweets including the hashtag; 1st time ever a problem; help?
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A3 I've heard teachers say great PD is kinesthetic & grounded in standards/students. has that and more.
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Time is always tricky. Sometimes "wasting" time saves time
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Q3 via And then there’s BreakoutEDU. Have you played with it? What are your thoughts about it? https://t.co/Tzw3geXurA
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A3: looks super fun. HMW make a K-1 version?
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it's bizarre how my mindset shifts so strongly when working w colleagues vs strangers
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Are you on Facebook? Join the BreakoutEDU group. I think there's ideas for K-1 version there
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Yes! this is so true! Just like family & others.
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that's cool! at this year; amazingly fun w brand new friends
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I think the is a lot like 's Teach Like A Pirate. It's a very practical HOOK.
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of course! you aren’t bored if you are moving!
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A3 I'd like to see more problem-based PD. would be great for that. HMW teach one puzzle at a time?
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oh woah . . . hadn't made that family analogy crossover
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I haven’t thought of that before: I totally agree! Great comment :)
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why not adjust time constraints 2 allow 4 auth. exp?
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Dropping a tonight to & esp for dealin w
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Q4 How might we use (and/or puzzles, problems) to introduce teachers & others to design thinking?
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fast is often rewarded but not always the best effort
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I try to remember that when I’m running & others speed by me ;)
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A4 People respond to tales of woe. I think framing a K-12 problem in woe terms can help w/empathy part. Framing, ideas come next
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So slow n stead right? We get there when we all do.
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trying tweetdeck for the first time - hopefully caught up now. A3: On puzzles—I'm having folks bring their own to the table.
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Babysitter is here and now I need to go to a parent evening…thanks !
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Okido! Thank you so much for participating & sharing Kathryn!
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A4: maybe it helps identify team roles. strengths and reveal the value of each individual
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Slow is important with DT all around. Tried to do the process in an hour today with a group and it was a disaster!
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Thank you Urbie! Great job dealing w/ obstacles tonight ;)
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Yes! Individual strengths adding with others'. Being in dark room lit by PowerPoint makes it hard to see/connect
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No worries about mixups. It's all a mashup anyway. Your views & mine & ours.
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Learning disasters can be lovely in their own way. We come up with another way that doesn't work.
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Signing off from Twitter tonight until the the weirdness rights itself & I can see all my peeps tweets
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Q5 How important are chairs to professional development?
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Curious to learn more about your experience; my work is introducing DT at many different scales including "micro"
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Thank you for hanging in as long as you did Dan. I'll be following your hashtag Saturday
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Thank you for sharing .. I'll have to take a deep dive later.
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Have you been to ? There's usually a teacher or three with experience with it. There's too
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A5 The thing with chairs & PD.. it's too easy to park it & let the experience pass one by. My best PD involves moving & talking
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I love my ! Check out our Facebook group
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A5 That first time with I was actually mostly lost. It happened so fast. I love it!
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A5 Designing learning experiences via & involves lots of empathy/ideas/prototyping
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Thank you for hanging in there with Chris!
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My first twitter chat! Thanks for taking it easy on me ;)
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Closing thought: don't just get outside a box, get outside! learning ops are everywhere
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They're usually smoother flowing. I was definitely in my empathy zone tonight Thank you for joining in Mindy!
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Haven't been to yet, just learned about it as well from
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great job tonight! I hope people will check out the Qs this week and add to tonight's convo
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Thank you for joining tonight's .. good night to you and all the ships at sea!
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