Design Thinking


"Describe a situation where you took a leap of faith."
Jim Patel
Business Professor 
Extreme Teaching Team

He aha te mea nui o te ao?
He tangata! He tangata! He tangata!
What is the most important thing in the world?
It is people! It is people! It is People!

I am wondering about...
1. A diagram that was shared on Twitter by @extremebydesign @k12lab 
2. An RSA you tube clip on Empathy shared on Twitter by Ken Pullar
3. Extreme by Design The Movie

I'm wondering about these because, I believe teaching in a way that furthers student capacity to be innovative,improve their ideas and work with their personalized ideas of play, passion and purpose is of central importance to teaching and learning in the 21st century. I have a hunch Design thinking is nudging all this forward with a fluidity that engages and demands imagination, creativity, change and collaboration towards solutions.

                      


Technology+Human Values+Business=Design Innovation

The extreme design team believe the key to nudging Design Innovation forward is Empathy

"To create meaningful innovations, you need to know your users and care about their lives.”

What is Empathy?
                                  
Thanks to Ken Pullar from Otagonet for sharing this on his twitter account

The movie can be purchased through itunes

It is possible that classroom teachers need to be actively attentive to the increasing presence of Design Thinking. Perhaps Design Thinking is able to assist me to interrupt  classroom 'business as usual'.
If so, Design Thinking  must have the capacity for my teaching to move away from being teacher led learning to Student directed - Student determined learning.

The move away from teacher led learning is discussed by David Price @DavidPriceOBE in his book OPEN: How we'll work, live and learn in the future.
Price discusses the shift from Pedagogy to Heutagogy.  
Check out Price's blog link to read a no nonsense explanation of what he means by this. Why Pedagogy Is No Longer Enough

A stunnning and informative pictorial of this shift can be found on Jon Andrew's twitter by Jon Andrews  


Design Thinking's relationship to Knowledge Building...

At present I think Design thinking is all about knowledge building. Building and creating with others, a future that adds value and new ideas.

Design thinking as I currently understand is one way knowledge building can be achieved.

As Jane Gilbert writes in The New Zealand Herald:
it is "What we do with knowledge that really matters."

The process of doing something with what we know. 
The improvement of ideas and connecting with community. 

As  Prof Carol Chan wrote, Knowledge Building is when
"Students work together to create and to improve ideas that add value to the community" 
(Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2003)


Questions I'm thinking about...

Q.How can I utilise Design Thinking into my classroom maths program?

Q. How does design thinking explicitly sit with Sugata Mitra's @Sugatam work on Self Organised Learning Environments? The SOLE Toolkit

Q. If empathy is the key, is it already present in my classroom and school and would I explicitly recognize empathy it if I saw it?

Q.Whats is @MathsPirates relationship to Design Thinking and why might Design Thinking be important?
A. Because @MathsPirates  is about idea improvement, engageng with Play Passion and Purpose. Click here for Tony Wagner's ideas on Creating Innovators
@MathsPirates Uses physical materials applied to real mathematical problems. 
Design thinking may be able to shift @MathsPirates from being less teacher led learning towards student directed learning, increasing the possiblity of experiencing student determined learning! Some thing to seriously aspire to!

Q.What might be @MathsPirates  explicit understanding of empathy and why is it important?

RESOURCES:
Design Thinking by Shifting to 21st Century Thinking in Education and Learning NZCER
Extreme By Design The Movie Students building a better world one product at a time


"Go Forth and innovate, 
be human centered, prototype driven and mindful of your process."















Knowledge, Energy, Vitality, Movement

Knowledge a noun with wings

If knowledge is not moving...
Riding a few waves...
Captured in a vortex of uncertainty...
Then..
Hack out new spaces for knowledge to breath.














CLICK HERE Knowledge Building Presentation by Diana-Grace Morris

During November 2013 I was fortuneate to be able to attend the Knowledge Building Symposium in Dunedin, New Zealand. Furthermore, I had my first experience of publicly sharing with colleagues some of my thinking and teaching practice. 

I think Knowledge Building is a significant foundation stone in the realising of 21st Century Teaching and Learning, yet I experience increasing uncertainty as to how knowledge building looks and sounds within our diverse communities.

My colleague Juliet Twist considers that perhaps this is a good sign. I'm holding onto that thought.

NOTE: When  talking about Knowledge Building Symposium there is an elephant in this blog post...
Knowledge Forum software - I'm still thinking...

I'm including the speakers & presenters in this post as these amazing teachers; primary, secondary and tertiary are nudging something different in their teaching. Their presentations were inspiring. Through exploring knowledge building, each teacher is engaging with interrupting 'business as usual'. WHOOOP!

All presentations will be available on the Knowledge Building Symposium web site.
Do follow these teachers on twitter! (please let me know if I've missed a profile)

TWEETS from Knowledge Building Symposium 2013 are found at  #kbs13
ALSO: Check out @MsBeenz Storify for a comprehensive collection of tweets - thank you Claire!


                                                 












Knowledge Building Symposium

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Carol Chan, University of Hong Kong
Invited Speakers:
Rachel Bolstad, New Zealand Council for Educational Research
Sue McDowall, New Zealand Council for Educational Research
Associate Professor Jan van Aalst, University of Hong Kong


Presenters:
Conor Bolton, St John’s College @fastpaddy
Claire Buist, St Clair School @MsBeenz
Madeline Campbell, Westland High School/WestNet
Sharlene Carki, Weston School @SharleneCarki
Professor Kwok-Wing Lai, University of Otago
Diana-Grace Morris, Koraunui School @dianagracenz
Tamara Yuill Proctor, St Andrew’s College @Tameey
Ken Pullar, OtagoNet @kpullar
Darren Sudlow, CantaNet @sudsnz
Caron Sullivan, Weston School
Ann Trewern, University of Otago
Tony Zaloum, Orewa College/HarbourNet @sc00tr
What is knowledge building?
Professor Carol Chan, University of Hong Kong

 "Students work together to create and to improve ideas that add value to the community" 
(Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2003)

                                    Chan outlined the principles of knowledge building

 Chan presented practical classroom suggestions

 Chan identified what 21st C learning and Future Learning in NZ could look like


What now?
The Future-Building Educator.



"ARE WE USING THESE IDEAS TO RESHAPE EDUCATION IN WAYS THAT ARE GENUINELY FUTURE BUILDING?"
                                                           Bolstad and McDowall

 Rachel Bolstad  asked Keri Facer about future-oriented learning. Facer suggested:

"Use imagination to do one of two things:
1. To emotionally occupy a space. Think what it would be like to be there.
2. To push it as far as you can go. to say what if this happened and then to say if you pushed it a little bit further and a little bit further what would it actually be like?"

  1. Imagine the future to help reflect on today... Nice


SO.....
KNOWLEDGE BUILDING


WHY?
I believe teaching, learning and the development of a knowledge creating culture must engage with Energy - Vitality - Movement. Because knowledge in the 21st Century is about movement. Everything must move. (yes teachers & students!)

WHAT?
When each of us understand the why.. the what will just follow. The 'What' will always be different!
@kidsedchatnz  @GuerrillaGeo  @MathsPirates

HOW?
The bringing together of two different ideas and creating some thing new from this. This is some times reffered to as the space in between or the third space.

WHEN?
I believe Knowledge Building is a way of life. A way of viewing the world with a lense that views the spaces inbetween as valuable and intrinst to working in an unknown future. 

WHO?
Knowledge Building is multidisciplinary. We are completely in it together!

WHERE?
Where ever you happen to be thinking, dreaming and doing.


If knowledge is not moving...
Riding a few waves...
Captured in a vortex of uncertainty...
Then..
Hack out new spaces for knowledge to breath!

Check out the following ideas...

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