Prototyping 101: Test Your IdeasNovember 8, 2013

Design

Prototyping 101: Test Your IdeasNovember 8, 2013

Design

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“You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.”

– Will Rogers

FOL DesignsKeynote URL

tinyurl.com/m5medl3

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"I like the dreams of the future betterthan the history of the past.”

– Thomas Jefferson

Designing the Future of Learning

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Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the role of short-cycle innovation/prototype design methodology (what it is and why it matters)

2. Share some tangible examples of innovative alternative models (to hopefully inspire you as you design your models)

3. Help you place your own work within the broader context of an industry transformation that’s underway

Factors Fueling the Future of Learning

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1. Drive

Toward Personalization

2.ExplosiveGrowth in

Technology

4.ShiftingPolicy

Environments

3. Advances in the Scienceof Cognition

5.IncreasedEconomicPressures

6.An Ecosystem

of Learning

2Rev as Design Lab

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Integrative Solutions from Birth-to-26 (& Beyond)

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2Rev’s Future of Learning Framework

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Language Matters…

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But the BIG Question Is…

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NOW

NEXT

FUTURE

INNOVATEthe System We Need

IMPROVEthe System We Have

(Incremental = Diminishing

Returns)

(Cross the Chasm =

Difficult, But Promising)

How can we JUMP from one curve to the next?

Crisis

Stable

Good

Great

LearnExperiment (Existing)

Prototype (New)

Transform School

Transform District

Short-cycle Methodology

Define Identify Brainstorm Prioritize Operationalize

Test

Challenges & Opportunities

Assets & Barriers

Solutions & Hypotheses

BestIdea(s)

Integrate & Plan for Implementation

Continuously Iterate Via “Short Cycles” to… See What Works!12

Short-cycle Innovation: Personalization

Challenge: Alternative school wants to move toward personalization, but doesn’t know where to start.

Solution/Hypothesis: By using student-facing ILPs combined with online learning, we can personalize learning for all students – to move them further faster.

Prototype: Use an ILP as a living profile of students in 9th grade, allowing them to move based on math readiness using an online module. Conclude 8-week prototype with student-led conferences reflecting on their math learning.

Outcome: A majority of students (~70%) showed greater progress over this 8-week period than in two preceding periods, and the combination of ILP and student-led conferences showed promising increases in student meta-cognition.

Next Step: School elected to Scale their effort – expanding the work to new band of grade 9-10 teachers that will set up a new prototype. Also currently investigating whether the right LMS can serve as platform to manage the work more deeply over time.

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Short-cycle Innovation: Policy

Challenge: Alternative school wants to create policy that allows for 18/7 learning and no seat time, but doesn’t know where to start.

Solution/Hypothesis: By allowing students to attend the alternative school in shifts and online, students will be able to flex their schedules to accommodate their needs.

Prototype: Use a tiered staggered schedule for students and staff from 6:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. All other instruction is flexed with online supports until 12 midnight. Conclude 8-week prototype with control and experimental group reflecting on what was learned.

Outcome: A majority of students (~55%) showed greater progress in the experimental group over this 8-week period than the control group (improved attendance, grades, satisfaction).

Next Step: School elected to Scale their effort – expanding the work to new band of students and teachers who were previously in the control group. Also currently investigating asking for a seat time revision policy from the local board.

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Short-cycle Innovation: Cognitive Sciences

Challenge: Alternative school wants to try a makers fair “learning by doing” environment with curriculum, but doesn’t know where to start.

Solution/Hypothesis: By using maker projects to teach the curriculum, students will be more engaged and connect learning experiences to core cognitive knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

Prototype: 10th grade students will serve as the beta and will participate with teachers designing the makers activities to align with Common core ELA and Math for a 16 week period.

Outcome: A majority of students (~60%) showed greater progress over this 16-week period than other district 10th grade classes. Students also expressed a greater willingness to work on a variety of performance tasks and connected with local business leaders in the maker environment.

Next Step: District elected to Scale their effort – expanding the work to other district 10th grade classes. Also currently investigating whether maker materials should replace textbooks and paper collaterals.

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Short-cycle Innovation: Increased Economic Pressure

Challenge: Senior class teachers want to reconfigure a staffing model to be more advisory related than determined by FTEs. They’d like to pay a smaller number of teachers more in this configuration.

Solution/Hypothesis: By allocating fewer teachers and paying them more, student results will go up because lighter touch supports will allow student directed learning to flourish.

Prototype: A senior class team of teachers will be reduced from five to three and paraprofessionals will comprise the other two slots to support students in more of a help desk feature while the other three teachers take on greater cross-disciplinary roles and coaching duties for students. The prototype will last 8 weeks and electronic surveys will be used to collect the data.

Outcome: The teachers reported greater job satisfaction, results were higher over an 8 week period.

Next Step: District elected to Scale the effort – expanding the work to other senior classes and leveraging a network of supports.. Also currently investigating becoming an opportunityculture.org site. 16

Short-cycle Innovation: Explosive Growth of Technology

Challenge: Alternative school wants to differentiate instruction enabled by technology for all learners but is unsure where to start.

Solution/Hypothesis: By using Edmodo, students will be able to manage, track, and showcase student work through badges and groups that allow teachers to check in, coach, instruct, and differentiate activities for all students in a 9th grade English class.

Prototype: Use Edmodo and related tools for 16 weeks with students in the 9th grade English class to assess and deliver differentiated apps, instruction, and peer groups to meet all learners where they are.

Outcome: A majority of students showed greater growth on formative assessments as a result of being provided differentiated ways to showcase learning on Edmodo.

Next Step: School elected to Scale their effort – expanding the work to 9th grade math and will set up a new prototype. Also currently investigating whether they can use Get Clever.com to bring in other assessment and differentiation tools.17

Short-cycle Innovation: Ecosystem of Learning

Challenge: Students do not use external town resources or world wide web networks to augment their ability to leverage ecosystems of learning.

Solution/Hypothesis: If we redesign an entire school and give access to town resources and experts over the web, they will more likely produce college and career ready skills.

Prototype: Each student our school will pair up with a town mentor and 4 experts over the web to choose college and career ready adventures using a Google site to track all progress. They will be trained by a teacher/school facilitator who will be charged with ensuring that standards and evidence of learning are collected on the Google site. They will be asked to give quarterly face to face presentations of their progress using Google presenter.

Outcome: Students showed 10% growth on baseline of college and career ready metrics provided by David Conley during a 16 week period.

Next Step: The district intends to expand the mentor and expert services to other sites.

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"Great ideas, when they appear, seem muddled and strange. They are only half-understood by

their discoverer and remain a mystery to everyone else."

– Neils Bohr

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Q & A before the roadmaps?tinyurl.com/lgeod66