N Stygall- Mindlab 2018 blog

Week 8 digital  Design Thinking 101 -  Flipped task Design Thinking Mindsets These 7 Mindsets explore and uncover the philosophy behind IDEO's (2017)  Design Kit’s approach  to creative problem solving (there are a number of videos on that site to explain each of these): Embrace ambiguity Optimism Iterate, iterate, iterate Learn from Failure Make it Creative Confidence Empathy IDEO (2017) suggests that how you think about design directly affects whether you'll arrive at innovative, impactful solutions. There are several different ways to view design thinking... Ideo Notosh Institute of design at Stanford Peer insight- growth They all start with empathy though... Design Thinking Kite by The Mind Lab by Unitec In this week's session we'll try out The Mind Lab by Unitec Design Thinking Process + materials, which uses our 'kite' model:  E mpathise /  D efine /   I deate /  P rototype /  T est /  R eflect ...

Reverse Time Capsule  “What if we were to receive a time capsule not from the past, but from the future?” (Coupland, 1995) See our class padlet - https://padlet.com/themindlabbyunitec/ubjplb8r8cr7 What would you put into a reverse time capsule to send back 20 years? What current artifacts might surprise the citizens of 1998 the most? Share on your location’s Padlet:  Auckland Central  /  Auckland Mangere Bridge  /  Auckland Clendon Park  /  Auckland Manurewa  /  Auckland East  /  Auckland Al Madinah  /  Auckland Wes t /  Christchurch  /  Hamilton  /  Hawkes Bay  /  Invercargill  /  Marton  /  Masterton  / Nelson  /  Ngatea  /  Rangiora  /  Rotorua  /  Tauranga  /  Wellington The concept of disruptive technology was first outlined by Clayton Christensen (1997), in his book 'The Innovator's Dilem...

3D Modelling In small groups, choose and watch together at least one video from this week’s media, relating to 3D design or 3D printing (i.e. '3D printing a lunar base', '4D printing', 'What If 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?', '3D printing UAVs' or 'Kidesign - 3D Design and 3D Printing for Education'). In your groups, suggest ways in which the widespread use of these technologies in industry might require changes to current educational practice in your own context. Publish your group thoughts to the G+ Community, In Class Tasks, using #3DEducation and your location as hashtags. 3D Thinking and Spatial Intelligence SculptGL This type of 3D modelling is not only useful for learning to design 3D objects. Many researchers believe that it links to wider skills that can be developed and applied elsewhere. For example Dünser, Steinbügl, Kaufmann and Glück (2006), part of a team that have published widely on the value of students creating and ...

Flipped preparation: Flipped preparation (required): Watch the video 'Leadership Theories and Styles', then identify a change initiative that you have been involved with, where you contributed to leadership or followership. Create a diagram that links your experiences to one or more specific leadership theories, with some explanation of these links Leadership Assessment 1 In part 1 of your LEADERSHIP 1 assessment you'll need to write (either individually, or in groups of two or three) a cohesive essay where you critically analyse the leadership of a change initiative that you were involved with in the past. Identify the leadership theories, styles and attributes used and evaluate their effectiveness. You can choose the leadership theories freely, they just have to be ones that are recognised in research literature. You then plan your leadership of a future digital and collaborative change initiative. Indicate how insights gained from reflecting on the past i...

Mindsets Mindsets are beliefs; how you think about yourself, your intelligence and talents, what it is you can and cannot do. Ultimately, this affects how you perceive other people and their abilities, talents and capabilities, what they are and are not capable of. One of the flipped learning tasks before the session was to complete a  quiz to explore your own mindset Intelligence In the session we will address the question of whether   Intelligence is innate and, therefore, cannot be developed beyond what you are born with. Claxton (2008) notes that "intelligence [has] become defined as the kind of mind that responds most readily to the peculiar demands of school." Dweck's Theory of intelligence Dweck (2006) descried two different views of intelligence. The previous view is that there is a fixed intelligence that can be measured using an IQ Test. No matter how much you learn, or how hard you work, your intelligence stays the same. Her...