{"id":386,"date":"2015-11-11T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/?p=386"},"modified":"2019-08-19T23:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:37:02","slug":"i-got-99-problems-but-design-thinking-aint-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2015\/11\/11\/i-got-99-problems-but-design-thinking-aint-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"I got 99 problems (but design thinking ain’t one of them)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It feels like just yesterday, but last week I hosted our first Hangout this year to help frame our thinking about action plans. It was great to have so many fresh faces\u00a0and a few alumni to support the conversation about action plans. To be quite honest, I personally find this process excruciatingly difficult and I’ve been doing Cohort now since day one.<\/p>\n

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A handsome Hangout concierge at our service (also known as Adam)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the last two years, I knew instantly over the summer\u00a0exactly<\/em> what I was going to focus my next action plan on. These were ideas that were solutions to problems that arose from my previous class and I was thrilled to “fix” these issues for my incoming classes…even before they had the chance to be problems. I was so so so very clever.<\/p>\n

Can you see what my\u00a0actual\u00a0<\/em>problem was?<\/p>\n

I was designing an action plan for a problem that didn’t quite exist in my current group of students. I was trying to magically create a time machine to hit refresh on my year and get a little more time to sort out one of the many challenges I faced. Maybe portfolios or personalized book adventures were what my classes needed, but I didn’t fully give myself time to really observe and empathize with my present\u00a0class and what\u00a0their<\/em> needs were.<\/p>\n

\"\"I keep coming back to the elegance of design thinking. For the last few months, I’ve been trying to be more present in my role with my students and not jump into problem solving mode right away. I’m doing what I can to practice that little blue circle, empathy, and actually understand who it is I’m designing for. What are these<\/em>\u00a0students’\u00a0<\/em>challenges?<\/p>\n

In that spirit, during the Hangout, we spent some time trying to articulate what our problems have been in our practices. We reframed these to “how might I” statements (to keep things in the realm of “possible”). Here is my rough list, started during the Hang and finished right now:<\/p>\n

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This is all to say, I’m trying to stay open to what my actual action plan will be this year. It’s a little exciting to be in the place of not knowing, or “beginners mind” as some of my teachers call it.<\/p>\n

What I can say is that I’m looking forward to building and developing with you at our next F2F in a few weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It feels like just yesterday, but last week I hosted our first Hangout this year to help frame our thinking about action plans. It was great to have so many fresh faces\u00a0and a few alumni to support the conversation about action plans. To be quite honest, I personally find this process excruciatingly difficult and I’ve … Continue reading “I got 99 problems (but design thinking ain’t one of them)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}