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|title=Now It's Your Turn!
|content=<br>We hope you enjoyed the documentary. We believe the best way to learn is by doing, so we are giving YOU a challenge to put design thinking in practice and learn skills and mindsets that you can apply your UIF work, as well as other projects. {{note2|'''Note:''' If you are part of a Leadership Circle, you should work together on the challenge.}} Without further ado, here is your challenge:<br><br>VIDEO PLACEHOLDER - PENDING SOURCE{{#widget:Youtube|id=eXu0dhpJO28|width=75%}}<br><br>
<div style="font-size:x-large;">Reimagine the first year experience for students at your school</div><br>
This is a great area of opportunity. As students start their college/university experience, they need to make lots of adjustments and navigate a new world, both inside and outside the classroom: deciding which classes to take, discovering and taking up extra-curricular activities, getting to know new roommates, classmates and teachers, etc. Also, the first year of school is often key in determining the overall success of students and influences their likelihood of graduating. How is that experience for students at your school and how might it be improved?<br><br>For the rest of the session, we will use a few more short videos to go deeper into the main concepts of design thinking, always in connection to the challenge we are giving you. In the Assignment section we will provide more detailed instructions of what you need to do to complete your challenge.
|title=Step 1: Identify Opportunities - Empathize and Define
|content=<br>A key aspect of the design thinking approach is to understand the perspective of the people involved in the area of opportunity we are exploring. This is what we call empathy:<br><br>{{#widget:Youtube|id=I_P4AgAoA5Y|width=75%}}<br><br>
For your challenge, the most relevant people to talk to are first-year students, but you could also talk to second-year students who still have their first year experience fresh in their minds. You also were a first-year at some point (or perhaps still are), but we want you to seek and understand the perspective of someone other than you.<br><br>In the video above where we introduced the challenge you saw Leticia talking to an incoming student who had just arrived to Stanford. Likewise, you will interview students at your campus to find out more about their experience as first-year students (you'll get more instructions below).<br><br>Once you have collected information by directly talking to other students, you will select what you find most interesting and surprising. Based on that, you will frame opportunities to improve the students' first-year experience.<br><br>Watch the following video to learn more about this part of the process (which requires that you practice what it's called "abductive thinking"):<br><br>VIDEO PLACEHOLDER {{#widget:Youtube|id=- PENDING SOURCEFn63Zji44U|width=75%}}<br><br>
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|title=Step 2: Generate Novel Solutions - Ideate
|content=<br>Once you have framed an opportunity (in the form of a "How Might We…" question), it's time to generate solutions for that opportunity. This is where creativity comes in. Are YOU creative?<br><br>Watch the video below and do the embedded short activity to explore that question.<br><br>VIDEO PLACEHOLDER - PENDING SOURCE{{#widget:Youtube|id=E24UJtPpxZQ|width=75%}}<br><br>Before you continue, do this exercise. You will need to print (or reproduce) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hEFFRy5mRH0yRCl6iH2qi4CvITvzvwjp/view this], and a pen. After you do the exercise, reflect on the results you obtained:<br><br>{{#widget:Youtube|id=aTicPwh0BdA|width=75%}}<br><br>Of course you are creative! We all are, but we need to practice getting in the right mindset: in order to generate ideas, you need to suspend judgement (of your ideas and the ideas offered by others). The following short video shows a team of students from a d.school class collaborating on generating solutions for an opportunity they identified:<br><br>VIDEO PLACEHOLDER - PENDING SOURCE{{#widget:Youtube|id=JA0caCOYOL0|width=75%}}<br><br>
As you can see by the number of post-its on their board, they have already generated many ideas and their attitude is to accept any idea someone in the team suggests -- no matter how crazy it may sound -- because that leads to less inhibition and self-censoring and the flow of ideas increases. You don't have to come up with the perfect idea right away. Most ideas that end up being really successful will be a combination of other ideas that initially do not sound that great. So what you need is to generate lots of ideas. Ultimately, <u>your ideas will evolve and be evaluated later (during prototyping and testing).</u><br><br>
{{Fmbox|image=none|text=On [[2020:Training/Toolkit (Ideation)|this page]] you will find more tips on how to collaborate with others to generate ideas (what is often referred to as "brainstorming").}}
:* ''How might we.....? (question based on the inference above)''
:You can review this process in the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fn63Zji44U here]. Note: If you conducted the interviews in a language other than English, please make sure that you translate to English at least the notes from the one selected interview, as well as the summary, so that we can give you feedback.
*Crafting a good problem statement/question is a key starting point to generate innovative solutions. Watch the following video to learn a method called the Why/How Ladder and apply it to the HMW question you composed to make sure it is not too broad/abstract, nor too narrow:<br><br>VIDEO PLACEHOLDER - PENDING SOURCE{{#widget:Youtube|id=HhWEQ9Wv14w|width=75%}}<br><br>
*For the example I showed, I could say:
:* I talked to Lisa, a first year student who just arrived at Stanford
