Communication for ideation is an exciting and wonderfully loud process. But the key component of success is really the listening for understanding. To pull together ideas and work collaboratively to create a novel solution requires listening for understanding and then applying that understanding towards ideation.
In the #DesignedToLearn twitterchat about Chapter 6, folks across the globe cited aspects of the book that drive their work each day driven by the following questions:
Q1: “Communicate to ideate” is about pulling together innovative solutions.
What’s one way you support learners in getting feedback from one another on their ideas or designed solutions?
Q2: A powerful component of “communicate to ideate” is the critical friends protocol.
How can you scaffold deeper questioning amongst your learners to model that hard questions make us stronger?
Q3: Designed to Learn aims to support learners as they design solutions to meaningful problems through content.
How do you help learners communicate how their learning is connected to their designed solutions?
Q4: Each component of Designed to Learn has prompts for feedback using the terms “area of strength” and “areas for growth”.
Who are some folks that do a great job communicating YOUR areas of strength and those for growth that have pushed YOU towards ideating better solutions? Give them a shout out here and tell them how they’ve pushed you to be better!
