Please take attendance using the Spring 2016 | P-Block Ideation Attendance spreadsheet. Remember that there are printed materials and agendas in the office. Today you'll need small pieces of paper or post it notes (I prepared some and put them in the office) and a project suggestion template.
DO NOW: Generate [7:55 - 8:05am]
Purpose: Students will generate a range of ideas in order to share some of their interests and to seed the remix.
- Right away, take 5 small pieces of paper or post it notes.
- On each of the pieces of paper, write an idea that might be part of a project. Ideas can be large (like "competitive sports") or specific (like "pickling onions"). Choose ideas that are somehow related to what you know and care about.
- Regroup, circle up, share out two of your ideas aloud with the group. Then put all five of each person's ideas in to a bowl, hat, or pile.
DO NEXT: Discussion [You decide]
Purpose: Continue or revisit conversation from yesterday in order to refresh understanding of the definition of creativity presented by "Everything is a Remix."
- Continue Connect. Extend. Challenge. conversation, if incomplete from yesterday.
- Review connections, extensions, and challenges, but try to clarify examples of Copy. Transform. Combine.
CREATE: Combine... [8:20 - 8:50am]
Purpose: To test a theory of creativity in a low-stakes setting, applying Habits of Learning to the Creative Process.
- Each person should choose one idea from the pile.
- Each person creates a mind map for that idea. [3 minutes]
(A mind map is placing the idea in the center of a page and making a web of related ideas and questions extending out from the center.) - Each person is randomly paired with another person.
(You can do this by counting off or assigning them to the person directly across from them in the room/circle. They should not work with the people directly next to them, because they may have overheard or helped with mind mapping.) - Pairs of people are challenged to come up with a project idea that combines the two ideas. Each pair should decide and write down the following to share with the rest of the school. It needs to be readable. (Note: These are project ideas, not projects anyone is required to do.)
- Develop a driving question or two. (Make sure it is a true driving question.)
- Identify the research that would be necessary for this project. (Do the best you can.)
- Describe the project idea. (Parts and purposes...)
- Explain what would make this project truly innovative if done to the maximum of its potential awesomeness. (No limits!)
- Connect the project idea to at least one larger concept. (Contrast, Metamorphosis, etc)
TICKET OUT: Share [8:55 - 9:00am]
Purpose: Create a gallery of student project ideas.
- Each pair should present their project idea to the group.
- Staff should collect the project idea sheets and give them to Kimberly
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Reminder to staff to prepare a professional model for tomorrow. Students will begin ideation of their own projects tomorrow as well.
