{"id":21,"date":"2015-10-18T00:53:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-10-18T00:53:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:53:22","slug":"ready-set-cohort-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/2015\/10\/18\/ready-set-cohort-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready&#8230;set&#8230;Cohort 21!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_3908-e1445129333472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_3908-e1445129333472-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Design Thinking Sprint - Ideas to improve the 1st 5 min of class\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_3908-e1445129333472-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_3908-e1445129333472.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>What a day! \u00a0Step 1: Meet & greet. \u00a0Step 2: Design Thinking Sprint. \u00a0Step 3: \u00a0Cohort 21 Tool Carousel. \u00a0Step 4: Reflecting & next steps. \u00a0I\u2019ve read about and read about Design Thinking, but it wasn\u2019t until I went through the awesome Design Thinking Sprint activity focusing on improving the first 5 minutes of class that I fully understood why Design Thinking is so meaningful. \u00a0I will definitely try to apply this in my classes this year. \u00a0The IB DP Chemistry Internal Assessment is a great opportunity to have students work through this, but maybe as a middle-distance run instead of a sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was on to the Tool Carousel. \u00a0Having worked with Justin for many years, I thought I would already have all these tools in my tool kit. \u00a0This was partly true. \u00a0The tools were already in my kit, but some were a little rusty, some were underused, and some were ready for an upgrade. \u00a0It was great to have some dedicated time to actually explore Twitter, Google+ and Hangouts, Diigo, and WordPress in more depth. \u00a0And seeing how other teachers in CISOntario were using these tools in the classroom was invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>Next steps: \u00a0Looking forward to where this journey will take me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day! \u00a0Step 1: Meet &#038; greet. \u00a0Step 2: Design Thinking Sprint. \u00a0Step 3: \u00a0Cohort 21 Tool Carousel. \u00a0Step 4: Reflecting &#038; next steps. \u00a0I\u2019ve read about and read about Design Thinking, but it wasn\u2019t until I went through the awesome Design Thinking Sprint activity focusing on improving the first 5 minutes of class &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/2015\/10\/18\/ready-set-cohort-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ready&#8230;set&#8230;Cohort 21!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mariearagona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}