Please take attendance using the Spring 2016 | P-Block Ideation Attendance. Today's agenda is printed and in the office. There are also project suggestion templates, Beane Protocols, and paper for brainstorming.
DO NOW: Exhibition of Learning Feedback [10:00 - 10:10am]
Purpose: Applied feedback and total participation to improve Exhibitions of Learning.
- Staff and students complete digital form.
DO NEXT: Re-Remix-Revisions [10:00 - 10:30]
Purpose: Revise remixed project ideas in the context of project proposals, in order to develop shared criteria for creative and innovative projects.
- As a whole group, generate a list of qualities of memorable, impactful, creative, and innovative projects. [Optional....an opportunity to look at a professional model. Discuss qualities. Add them to the list. Be mindful of time.]
- Distribute project suggestions from other p-blocks to groups of two or three. One project per group.
- Each group of two or three should:
- Identify the strengths of the project.
- Identify the weaknesses of the project, using the criteria established this week and the list of qualities. What is it missing?
- Determine key suggestions or needs for revision. What will make this project even more innovative? Does it address a meaningful problem? What important idea, thought, or feeling can be expressed through this project? What does it need?
- Make revisions to the driving question, project idea, and any other part of the suggestion. It might feel wrong, but you are literally taking over this project as if it were your own. Cross things out. Rearrange. Tweak. Transform. Connect.
- Complete a final draft of the Project Suggestion Template
- Present a before and after of the project to the group.
- Debrief: How did this feel? What was difficult? Were their breakthroughs?
GATHERING: Sentence Starts [10:30 - 10:35am]
Purpose: Open lines of communication and share ideas to support ideation.
- Go around the circle, each person completing the following sentences that begin...
- I know I am inspired when...
[Example...when I don't realize that hours have passed.] - I've seen people discover good project ideas when they...
[Example...when they read the news.] - I know someone else is inspired when...
[Example...when they can't stop talking about the thing they keep talking about.] - ....
IDEATION: brainstorm... [10:30 - 11:00am]
Purpose: Reflect on personal interests, passions, preoccupations and generate seeds for personal projects. Resist closure.
Continue Beane Protocol from yesterday.
AND/OR
Generate Lists:
What are you passionate about?
What are you passionate about?
What are your purposes and intentions in life?
How do you play?
What ideas do you most want to express?
During this period, staff should be circulating in order to press students to fill their pages with ideas, reasoning, details, extensions, and possibilities. If a student is stuck to one idea, encourage them to begin a mind map that includes where they first interacted with the idea and possibilities for where they might take the idea. Brainstorm possible remixes.
REFLECTION: quick draw [11:00 - 11:15am]
Purpose: Envision a nascent project idea and reflect on Habits of Learning.
- Identify a place on the manilla folders. Write the date. Sketch an ideas that came out of brainstorming today. Choose something you were not thinking about when you walked in the room today, but something that resonates.
- Share out the sketch and the idea.
- Evidence of thinking and learning from this week should stay inside the folder for the weekend.
