Design Thinking in the classroom and in Leadership
Many issues we face in education are caused by poor design - great example is the poor design of the power points in the room we are in!!!
Linking Design Thinking to 21st Century Skills - can design thinking assist the acquirement of 21st-century skills?
Design thinking methodology - some examples
1 - Empathy
Synthesis - connect my learning to problem finding - identify the problem
Ideation - generating and judging ideas
Prototyping - acting upon ideas
Feedforward - sharing ideas
3 - Thinking into action
4 - Mindsets processes and methods - the need to be agile in your thinking
Design thinking means not holding onto what you believe to be true - prototype and be mindful of the process - ie don't try to skip steps. It's the mindset that sets the project.
Design Thinking for Educators - teachers are designers of learning
Our chosen issue or problem was - students designing their own assessments
We then had to cube the task - this was a bit of a painful task!!
Rogers' Adoption of the Innovation Cycle
Different strategies need to be used for each section of the graph - the group - the innovators and early adopters want to be given the tool NOW.
Early majority want PD and support and need a lot to get there. I think Laggards should be named 'resisters'.....
Does the organisation that is trying to innovate have to set a timeline and say to the laggards you need to get on board. Or do you keep on 'watering the rocks'....
Leadership provides an environment for the laggards to be the critics - but there needs to be ground rules - provide the critique - provide the areas you want critiqued.
You can overlay leadership theory on the diagram-
situational - transformational - transactional - dictatorial
When do you call it quits - ask the question 'is it absolutely essential that we all are doing this at the same time? will anyone die??'
Consider your worst user - the one that will be hardest to persuade to change - profile them - ours was Bob - see below
100 solutions in 10 minutes - then filter them
1 a safe bet
2 a long shot, but difficult to implement
3 darling - fav idea
Then rank each individually - 1-10 - is it:
- new
- usable
- feasible
I still like showing them the 'door of the bus' as my personal 'darling' ....
Our winning idea is 'document everything and provide with checklists to follow'
After initial pitch, refine the idea based on rose, bud, thorn. Our final ad was a little less than constructive 'move the laggard on....'
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How might design thinking inform leadership practices?
Certainly in the design of the strategic plan; the vision; their values etc....
The ground level are expected to implement the plan, are not necessarily the ones informing the vision.....
Too much criticism leads to no action - bias over action.
Showing not telling, having visible processes, so that everyone knows where it's going.
The process has to be seen to be followed.
Change is a process of evolution, the first prototype may not be perfect, but that's OK, we need a culture of safe failure. We have to design the safe space for this person to fail in.
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