{"id":77,"date":"2015-11-30T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-11-30T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:09:49","slug":"thinking-big-with-design-thinking-for-my-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/2015\/11\/30\/thinking-big-with-design-thinking-for-my-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking BIG with Design Thinking for my Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our second Face 2 Face session at The York School was a whirlwind of inspiration and creativity as we followed a design thinking protocol, adapted from Design Thinking for Educators<\/a>, to arrive at “how might we” questions to guide our Action Plans. \u00a0Check out the thoughtful and informative posts from my SCS colleagues @chazzard<\/a> and @adamcaplan<\/a>\u00a0for great run-downs of the day.<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/www.designthinkingforeducators.com\/\"<\/a>Since this awesome Google Hangout<\/a> on design thinking our action plans earlier this fall, I had been collecting “how might I” questions in a Google doc every time I encountered a challenging library issue that arose for our students. \u00a0I came to the second F2F confident that I would simply choose one of these to focus on. \u00a0Going through the design thinking process, however, made see how a number of the problems I was considering are actually interrelated, from how we present library pathfinder information and do direct information literacy instruction, to teaching citation and academic honesty in the digital world. \u00a0As I began to think through the empathizing piece and consider our students’ needs, I realized that many of my seemingly discrete “how might I”s \u00a0were part of a larger question that I chose to focus on Grade 9: How might we ensure our Grade 9 students end the year feeling like more confident and competent researchers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through the ideate phase and following some really valuable discussion at my table, I sketched out a number of ways to meet this challenge that ranged from feasible to wild. \u00a0Leveraging social media to answer student questions and experimenting with flipped classroom resources for direct instruction seemed like profitable routes to explore but “never sleep again” and “mind-control” were less so (ha ha). \u00a0My favourite part of the day was the gallery share where we had the opportunity to reflect and offer suggestions, questions and resources to one another. \u00a0I now have sticky notes with further avenues to pursue (that don’t involve magic powers) and more big questions to consider.<\/p>\n

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My mind is still spinning as I look back at my notes for iterating and building. \u00a0I feel like I have really blown open the question and I am seeing its true size and complexity. \u00a0Right now I’m not sure what will come next but I’m excited to continue using design thinking to think it through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our second Face 2 Face session at The York School was a whirlwind of inspiration and creativity as we followed a design thinking protocol, adapted from Design Thinking for Educators, to arrive at “how might we” questions to guide our Action Plans. \u00a0Check out the thoughtful and informative posts from my SCS colleagues @chazzard and … Continue reading “Thinking BIG with Design Thinking for my Action Plan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[21,22,23],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-design-thinking","tag-information-literacy","tag-magic-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}