{"id":516,"date":"2019-11-22T02:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T02:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/?p=516"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:25:39","slug":"falling-in-love-with-design-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/2019\/11\/22\/falling-in-love-with-design-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling in Love with Design Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I had the opportunity to provide some feedback to Stanford&#8217;s d.school about my journey as a &#8220;<strong>Design-Thinking Educator<\/strong>&#8220;. Funny thing is that I had never thought of myself as one until they said it!<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for my interview, I had to submit a Journey Map. After watching their video about what a journey map is and deciding not to sketch images, I set to work. It was interesting to realize how long I had been circling around the concept of design thinking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Journey Map\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/78554759?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My journey certainly wasn&#8217;t planned in advance and represents several experiences that, in hindsight, contributed to my understanding. But, as they say,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hindsight is 20\/20.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, in what should not have been a surprise, once I complete my journey map, it became clear how pivotal Cohort21 has been in the development of my thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-scaled.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-521\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-1024x768.png\" alt=\"My Journey Map\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-1536x1151.png 1536w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Journey-Map-2048x1535.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a>Looking back, it seems obvious that I would be drawn to design thinking and the teaching of technology and design. It all involves trying to understand things more deeply, giving things a go, learning from efforts that don&#8217;t pan out exactly as planned and making improvements. I am comfortable with change and enjoy making new discoveries with students and colleagues. I now frequently approach decisions and explorations with a design-thinking lens without even realizing I am doing it.<\/p>\n<p>In our book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portageandmainpress.com\/product\/bold-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bold School<\/a>, Tina Jagdeo and I talked about our desire to foster critical, creative and compassionate thinking in our students. Design thinking utilizes all of these. It&#8217;s funny how sometimes you end up finding something you are passionate about without ever looking for it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Critical Creative Compassionate Thinking\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/larajensen\/files\/2019\/11\/Critical-Creative-Compassionate-Brain-2048x1150.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that for my Action Plan this year I would like to explore this some more. As a Coach Mentor, I didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to dig in to my question at the last Face to Face meeting but now that I have settled on a potential area of exploration, it&#8217;s time to finally get going on my empathy interviews and see what admin, faculty and students think about design thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I had the opportunity to provide some feedback to Stanford&#8217;s d.school about my journey as a &#8220;Design-Thinking Educator&#8220;. Funny thing is that I had never thought of myself as one until they said it! In preparation for my interview, I had to submit a Journey Map. 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