April 30, 2019 To begin our final Workshop, Jade introduced the students to a quick exercise. We all got a worksheet with nine circles on it where we had to use our imagines to make each circle into something else, like a turtle shell or a face, and we got some great ideas! We then... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Let’s Do! Workshop #4 was filled with creativity and production! First, Jade got our imaginations working with the “magic world” body-storming check-in exercise where we worked together to turn ourselves into specific objects like bananas and merry-go-rounds. After this engaging exercise, the scholars reviewed the ideas that came out of our... Continue Reading →
We planned to come back to Lakeland two days later the FEEL workshop, hoping to get some fresh ideas from the students right before their spring break comes around. In order to make that happen, Sarah and I spent about 2 hours synthesizing the data from students’ interview on April 10th, Wednesday. We identified 5... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 We kicked off Workshop #2 by reviewing the Team Agreements and activities from the previous week. We then discussed what the students remembered about each of their “day in life” worksheets, where they mapped out how they felt throughout the school day based on what classes or activities were going on... Continue Reading →
On April 2nd, our DFC workshop series was kicked off at Lakeland School’s Higher Achievement after-school program. Today’s goal really was to set the foundation of understanding and respect in this class. We started the conversation with “What do you think of when talking about design?” Followed by a brief introductory of Social Design and... Continue Reading →
March 23, 2019-Jade This is our 4th meeting in this spring break week!!!! Go team!!!!! We started today's conversation with reflecting on the interview with DFC's other Champion, Orlando. He's spreading the DFC seeds in St. Louis, Missouri. Orlando's approach and many projects he's been doing seem very close to our project. He also mentioned... Continue Reading →
March 19 & March 20, 2019-Jade We shared with Becky about our initial plan of the four workshop with Higher Achievement on the Tuesday of spring break!!! (Such a hard-working team!!! lol) Becky reminded us the transparency of the process. Even though time is really limited in 1-hour workshops, but we need to make the... Continue Reading →
March 18, 2019 Jade and I are currently in preparation mode for our upcoming workshops with Lakeland’s Higher Achievement scholars! We spent the day reviewing d.school’s Liberatory Design methods (a big thanks to Texas DFC Champion, Monica!) and outlining our plans for working with students. Based on the vital information we have gotten from Monica... Continue Reading →
Jade Shih March 12th, it's our weekly meeting. This past week seems longer because we've been talking to many teachers throughout the week, and every encounter carried so many impressive stories of those teachers and their beloved students. Also, as mentioned in the previous blog, we are going to have the workshop with middle school... Continue Reading →
Jade Shih Monday, March 11th, we had a meeting with Mr. Neyo of the Higher Achievement at Lakeland Elementary/Middle school. (Connected through teacher Melissa, yayy!) And it went very well! Mr. Neyo seemed to get the intention and the value of this project right away, and he was extra generous and support with our work.... Continue Reading →
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