#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 March 16, 2016
9:00 PM EDT
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Please take a moment to introduce yourself.. who & where you are and what you do.
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We'll have to catch up later Ellen!
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Hi Chris in Atlanta, 3rd gr teacher and resident trouble maker
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Patrick. founding 9th grade cs teacher at Alpha Public Schools in east San Jose. Makerspace hopeful.
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Urbie, instructional designer from Arizona.. Usually I’m helping produce transformational learning experiences.
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Hi !! Erin in Maine, 9th gr English teacher w/one class of rogue 12th graders.
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Hi Erin, glad you could make it tonight
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Evening folk; just swinging in to drop a quick to our mighty mighty DT community as I have grades that need doing
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A1: Highway under construction?? It'd be pretty empty. Just learned about DT, have yet to implement anything major.
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So cool Erin! A blank slate to fill a little at a time.
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A1: At this site a great battle was fought between great educators aspiring to create authentic exp. to serve others
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Been in the planning stages for a long time. Just started construction. First real lesson with students happened yesterday
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ps A1 ps mine was not very poetic
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how is it going? share a bright spot or two
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A1 My design thinking historical sign might say something about design thinking as pony express.. Problem solving on the fly.
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Cool! What was your first time like?
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I'm one who wants to fill the slate as quickly as possible. I forget about all the chalk dust you get when you erase.
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So true Dave! And it was replaced by something better. We start small and grow (or try something else).
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A1 My design thinking story is full of tangents, dabbling and ideation
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do you have a starting point? can we find one together w/ tonight?
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A1 I spent the last few days driving across the southwestern states, passing through small towns oozing history.. +
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A1 I saw lots of places where people had moved on. Reflecting & walking reminded we all come from someplace.
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great! can you tell us more about your dabbles?
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Renee White from NC. A1: mine would probably say "renovation in progress"
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Where do you tangents take you?
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Doing empathy maps tomorrow, asking Ss to offer insights as to why Hamlet is the way he is.
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I love that we're hearing from great risk takers tonight! how might we contribute to your efforts?
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Also being observed during said very first DT experience. Should make for an interesting morning.
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It was cool. ran the design a band DEEP process from (with some modifications for 40 kids in a class)
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probably talked too much...
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My tangents usually back to the WHY and purpose but it doesn't feel that way in the beginning
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A1 here's one from one week ago, when I was getting all charged up to take on a big new project. https://t.co/2nDTYPWN78
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awesome! would you like to share some of your guiding questions or thought provoking statements?
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Q2 Sometimes design thinking projects take us somewhere unexpected. What surprise have you come across? https://t.co/j49l4Hcq1T
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bring that "go get 'em" spirit! I'm a huge fan of over-the-top
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Awesome ! I have a fav place on the highway to Austin I stop at every chance I get for jerky & peanut brittle
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A2: none really yet... Unless you count starting. Just trying to get into this frame of thought/teach.
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Renovation & renewal, so evocative of design thinking & story!
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A2 I’m kinda new to design thinking, too. It’s going on three years. One surprise was how the effort doesn’t have to be led.. +
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A2: I don't know if I've gone anywhere unexpected yet, but am trying to build a bridge b/t programmatic and design thinking
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Although to be honest, right now my freshies are still trying to remember the dif between hither and thither.
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Can you say more about that last part?
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A2 It’s sort of situational. When design thinking crosses your path, interest or expertise you grab hold of it.
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A2: Not unexpected territory or anything, but I was surprised to see how far from project based my class has drifted since
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Sure! I was working with some nurse managers. They described something. I sketched out what I heard. They corrected me. +
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, but is there a keyboard shortcut for submitting a response on participate learning? like ctrl + enter on email?
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ahh, the example helps so much
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The cool part was after that first sketch exchange. They took over after that and I was mostly along for the ride.
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Q3 makes it's appearance shortly
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this is great! What does your hook for the lesson look like? great ops for work through character study
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Starting with a blog post about a time when their parents made them reeeeeeeeeally angry.
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Q3 DT’s new enough it’s possible you’re the first practitioner some have seen. What’s that been like? https://t.co/8BDFogPEq9
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great! are they interviewing each other? or reflecting solo?
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In the fall I'm going to be starting a teacher-ed program. Chats like this hooked me
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In the fall I'm going to be starting a teacher-ed program. Chats like this hooked me
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Solo. It's introspective, will give them something to refer to when we talk about H's temper tantrums.
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A3: Being so so new, none of our other staff have really seen/heard yet what's going, so don't quite know what the reaction is
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A3: I tend to forget that other people don't know what I'm talking about when I gush about it.
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A3 Route 66 has been called "Mother Road" by some. It's an adventure, getting there from here. Being with others keeps me going.
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i wonder if the Ss interviewed each othr, would they find connections and draw out more frm their experiences?
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Time crunch. Honors kids LOVE to hear themselves talk. We'd never get to the maps! They'd usurp the whole class!
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That's where sketching helps me. Drawing "this is what I think I heard you say" then handing the pencil/paper over
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Right? I do the same thing with Google Classroom.
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also, are there practice norms for your workspace?
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Eeerrrmmm... like for what part?
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hmm. time is a frequent roadblock for deeper understanding. are you able to blur the time issue any?
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Not really. Can bump parts of activity to next class, though, but it means waiting for Monday.
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Hey everyone. Tardy but here. Lol
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I like that idea. Do stick people count??
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general norms in our classroom incl. deferring judgement, make note of what you see and hear (not what's missing).
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We have discussions about best practices from time to time, but there are no official norms.
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glad to see you here tonight! jump on in, the water is warm
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Oh yes! Cool part is it's about sharing ideas via scribbles. I haven't had anyone push back against stick people
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A4: I just spent the last month pestering people until I got Twitter unlocked for my classes. Unlocked today!!
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Hi Jarrad! What's your design thinking story been?
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I've had my seniors using recently to record big ideas about their reading. Positive reactions so far!
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A4 I support clinician PD. Some of it is sit-get. Empathy for learners gets conversations started. They know what they need.
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A4 Sometimes it's as easy as pulling the fence wires apart to let people n ideas through.
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I think video, personally produced on our mobile devices, is a great way to go, too. However we do it, share story
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Yep. Started them off with TED talks. John Green has a great one about how to learn on the Internet.
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Going to have them give their own "ED" talks about their own areas of expertise!
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I like that idea. I'm looking for easy (no organization supplies resources required) to try/prototype ideas
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Do cell phones count as resources in that scenario?
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I think so. Whatever gets learners doing for themselves, tossing ideas around, making them visual/tangible
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sorry gang. Crying 2yr old needs me Best to all! follow someone new tonight
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Besides, cell phones n tablets are everywhere. We should be using stuff we know.
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Bye Chris! Thank you for sharing
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A7 HMW use Design Thinking to capture these competencies?
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There's an app for just about anything you can think of! I like to give Ss a task and tell them to find their own app.
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Q5 The grass may be greener on the other side, maybe your design thinking story is about blooming?
https://t.co/xoAu6yfWd0
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relevant for today, tomorrow & 10 years from now: empathy is the key
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A5 1 thing that stands out, an idea flowering, was about prototyping as a way of making design thinking visible. Wrong was right!
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A5: See this thing? This tiny thing whose species you can't identify yet because it's too tiny? It's me. https://t.co/3rEangG3Ym
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Sorry, got interrupted. recognizing patterns and the empathy part of design. I love framing & solving problems.
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Lots of the problem solving & improvement processes I've used the last 40 years involve TONS of analysis. DT w/empathy stands out
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The possibilities really are endless!!!
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Life happens daily? On my way to a conference in Orlando Sunday when weather turned me back. Lots of new to see
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Thank you everyone for participating in tonight's soliciting story .. follow someone new! See ya next week!
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I'm looking forward to learning & growing with you!
