Please take attendance on the spreadsheet. Staff, please consider taking notes on this spreadsheet about students' project ideas and possible project advisors. The more information we have about each project, the better we will be able to assemble groups.
Note Regarding Student Surveys: Do not send a mass email to collect student opinions. If you need survey data, create a form and share it with Erin (ethomas@etudegroup.org) first. She will help you with revising it, so that it meets IDEAS standards of data collection. Your survey will then be posted here, as a Do Now. This protocol helps them with their project, and it helps the community because the project they share with us will have more meaning and a stronger impact on our learning.
DO NOW: Provide Data [10:00-10:02]
Purpose: Help Casey and Bianka with their proposal
DO NEXT: Organize [10:02 - 10:10am]
Purpose: Review evidence of thinking and learning, prepare a mindset for ideation.
- Organize and review evidence of thinking and learning from where you left off yesterday.
- Prepare one piece of evidence to share with the group. Now that you look back at your thinking from yesterday, what stands out to you and why?
- Review the lists created by your group: 1) Yesterday we developed a menu of different ideation strategies. Each person shared something that has worked for them. Look over this list as you decide how to spend studio time today. 2) On Friday we developed a list of qualities of memorable, important, creative projects. Look at that list as a reminder of what we are working towards this semester. All are challenged to go beyond the obvious, beyond the first idea, beyond what you think you know now.
- Create a studio time goal and write it down in the same place as yesterday. Be specific about who, what, where, when, why you are doing what you are doing. Name the evidence you expect to have at the end of the time. EXAMPLE: I intend to use today's studio time to collect news stories related to the idea of caring for elderly parents. I will create a list of bookmarks.
GATHERING: Share [10:10 - 10:20am]
Purpose: Utilize the group to make best use of time and resources today.
- Go around and share evidence of thinking and learning from yesterday as well as studio time goal for today.
- For each person, highlight values and suggestions for their goals. EXAMPLE (for the goal above): I value that you are looking for more perspectives on the topic "caring for elderly parents." I suggest you try to find about how elderly people view their lives; find out what they want. Try ideation by using the of circle of viewpoints thinking routine.
STUDIO TIME: Ideation [10:20am - 11:00am]
Purpose: Develop an understanding of ourselves and the world and transform that understanding into a project idea.
- Follow your studio time goal, intention.
- During studio time, students are encouraged to spend some time in independent ideation but may travel to other rooms to meet with staff or students. (Please do not gather in hallways.)
- Remember to collect evidence of your thinking. This includes notes from conversations with peers and staff.
Year Long Projects: If you have not already filled out this application, do it by the end of the day TODAY. Also make sure to email your proposed panel members as early as possible.
EXTENSIONS: Ideation [11:00 - 11:15am]
Purpose: Share ideation with peers who know your intention in order to get new ideas. Remix.
- At 11:00am everyone should return to their rooms and "set up" their evidence of thinking and learning from today and/or yesterday, by placing it in a spot on a table next to your manilla folder. It should be "set up" in a way that others can look at it.
- As people return to the room, they should do a gallery walk - looking at the ideas of others and placing post-it notes with probing questions and extensions. How can this person get their ideas to really great project ideas? What might be an interesting remix?
- EXAMPLE: If I created a mind map for prehistoric sturgeon, I would place it on the table. Other people in my group would come over and read my mind map. They would leave post it notes with questions like "I wonder what the geography of the Wisconsin River and Mars have in common?" or "What if you designed a dress inspired by the way sturgeon look?" They might also challenge me with extensions like "How are you going to get people to care about sturgeon?" and "What are you trying to express through a project on sturgeon?"
Collect all feedback and evidence.
