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 →
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 →
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 →
February 7, 2019-Jade I eventually got to do the research around "history and healing", so I shared the notes from my desk research. There is a book called <<The Mis-education of the Negro>> where I learned a lot about important historical perspectives. Although it mostly reflected on the history of higher education for African Americans, it provided... Continue Reading →
January 29, 2019 Getting Started/Day 1: Frame and Plan: Jade and I are currently working through the Frame and Plan stage and are also diving into our initial research. To kick us off, our project advisor, Becky Slogeris, connected to us a teacher who worked with Becky and a previous Social Design student to work... Continue Reading →
This project began from Jade Shih’s desire to use her experience in MICA’s Social Design Master’s program in a way that would both be inspired by and support the work of Design for Change. Design for Change is a global movement founded on the concept that children Can create change, and they can start today.... Continue Reading →
January 25, 2019 Teach, Learn, Design is a blog documenting the Independent Study project of Jade Shih and Sarah Dunn. Through this platform, we hope to explain and share the process of our work as we move through the Human Centered Design process (to be defined later in this post). We hope this blog will... Continue Reading →
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