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{{Fmbox|image=none| style = border:5px solid #008b8b; background-color:#f1fcf8;|text=Feel free to watch the film with your Leadership Circle or on your own. You may also invite friends and family to watch it with you (we bet they will enjoy it as well), but please do NOT share the link and password, as that would violate the terms of the educational license we have obtained to give you access.''}}<br>{{Fmbox|image=none|text=After watching, you may individually share your thoughts and takeaways on the discussion thread below.}}<br>'''PLACEHOLDER Extreme By Design PLACEHOLDER (by Leticia; discussion thread)'''
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|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.<br>{{note2|'''Note:''' If you are part of a Leadership Circle, you should work together on the challenge.}}<br>Without further ado, here is your challenge:<br><br>VIDEO PLACEHOLDER - PENDING SOURCE<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.
Now you are equipped with the right mindsets and tools to put design thinking into practice. Remember that your goal for this assignment is to identify opportunities to improve the experience of first-year students at your school, and come up with potentially innovative solutions.<br><br>This assignment has two deliverables. Start by creating a Google doc in [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BrL69LY4a-Pe1Cu4bQ6uaKcDbEH1n2JZ your campus Google Drive folder], name it "Session 2 Assignment - [the name of your school]", and include all deliverables in that document. Make sure that the document permissions are set to "anyone with the link can comment", so your uiguide and the UIF team can access the doc and give you feedback.
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*If you are part of a Leadership Circle, this is a TEAM assignment, and one member of the team should post the report on the Training Updates page in the UIF Portal on behalf of the whole team (more instructions on posting the assignment later).
*When you meet with your uiguide this week, ask for feedback. Specifically, you should discuss the opportunity statement you framed (and make sure you don't have a solution embedded, or it is too vague), before moving on to brainstorming solutions.
*'''Due September 19:''' post your final report on the Training Updates page of the UIF portal (visit the [[2020:Training/Submitting Assignments|Submitting Assignments]] page for more on how to submit your assignment.)
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*Prepare for the interviews by thinking of opening questions that are relevant to the challenge. The challenge is, by design, very broad. If you need help coming up with questions you might ask the students you interview, see the discussion forum below this, and feel free to contribute additional questions by responding to the thread.
*Review the [[2020:Training/Toolkit (Interviewing Guidelines)|TOOLKIT: Interviewing Guidelines]]
*Find and interview first year students (if face to face interaction with other students at your school is not possible because school is not in session, connect with them via Zoom/Skype/Google Hangout, or on the phone. Do NOT send them questions as a survey, because you can't ask follow up questions). <u>Your goal is to find out as much as you can about the first year students' expectations and motivations.</u><br><br>If you have a team of more than 2 candidates, split into two subgroups and conduct interviews separately (then you can come together as a team to share notes and learnings). A suggested time for each interview is ~20 min, but it could be longer depending on how it goes. <u>Each team should talk to at least 4 students and take notes of all they say (you will include these notes in this deliverable).</u>
*Select ONE of your interviews, pull out quotes (things interviewees said) that you found interesting, and compose a synthesis of it with this structure:
:* ''We talked to _____________(description of the student you talked to)____________ '' :* ''We were surprised to notice _________ (one interesting observation/quote from the interview)________ '' :* ''We wonder if this means ____________(inference about the observation)_________ '' :* ''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<br><br>
*For the example I showed, I could say:
*In sum, for this deliverable # 1 you should add TWO things to the Google doc you created for this assignment:
:*the notes from all the interviews.
:*a synthesis of one selected interview (in the format above), after making sure that the HMW question in the synthesis does not contain a solution nor is too broad by using the Why-How ladder.<br><br>DISCUSSION THREAD PLACEHOLDER<br><br>
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*Starting with the "How Might We…" question you generated for deliverable # 1, brainstorm (with your team if you are in a Leadership Circle) possible solutions for that opportunity. Review tips for brainstorming/ideation [[2020:Training/Toolkit (Ideation)|here]]. <u>Come up with at least 30 ideas, and include a list of them in the Google doc for the assignment.</u>
*Select one of the many ideas you generated and create a sketch/diagram that describes the idea in more detail. Is it a product? A service? A new process or way of doing something? Use labels and annotations to make it as clear as possible. Include the sketch/diagram (or a photo of it) in the Google doc, after the list of ideas.
*Show your sketch/diagram to first year students (the ones you interviewed and/or others) and ask them what they think of your idea. Your goal here is not to convince them that your idea is good, but get their honest perspectives and understand the why behind those perspectives. Include a summary of the received feedback in the Google doc for the assignment. ''At the Silicon Valley Meetup in March, we will explore other prototyping methods beyond sketching.''<br>
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'''>>> In sum''', the Google doc with your assignment should contain 2 deliverables:
* Deliverable #1 - Notes and synthesis from one interview
* Deliverable #2 - at least 30 ideas for solutions, a sketch/diagram of one of those solutions, and a summary of feedback received about that proposed solution.
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Hope you enjoyed your design thinking adventure! You will find LOTS of resources (readings, videos, books) on design thinking on [[2020:Training/Design Thinking (Resources and Stories)|this page]] (you can also access it anytime from the "DESIGN THINKING: resources and stories" on the sidebar menu. Also, in Session 4 you will have the opportunity to apply design thinking to the UIF projects you will start to develop, going deeper into prototyping, which we covered only briefly on this session. As always, if you have any questions, ask!
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