Post Grad Pt2: W3 Innovation Ideation and Prototyping

Whakataukī

He iti hau marangai e tū te pāhokahoka
Just like a rainbow after the storm, success follows failure

Why you should and how you could better embrace ideation and/or prototyping in your practice to find truly innovative solutions.

Build Courage Through Making: Emily Pilloton

• Learn to express yourself
• Celebrate who you are
• Shift power dynamics
• “I fundamentally believe that if girls and women are more involved in, invited into and given more agency to shape the world, that our world will be more beautiful and more equitable and more just, and it will be designed for everyone,” she says.
• Fear is important and can be isolating; we, as women, need to be brave. It is a skill that can be learnt.

5 Tips for Bravery

Emily has countless pieces of advice for those looking to build their bravery and hone their maker abilities. We selected five from her book to get you started. 
• The best way to start is to start.
• Acknowledge your fear, then tell it to go jump off a cliff.
• Practice the hard parts.
• Find your mentors and ask for help.
• Finish what you start.

Why is community important? - By building things for others, we build ourselves up and can become leaders. These ideas will live on for many years. E.g. chicken coop for a farm. 

Using this kind of thinking would benefit neurodiverse people, as they often think outside of the box, giving a range of ideas. From a leadership perspective, we are thinking up ideas to acknowledge students' attendance.  People can be reluctant to share ideas, or have none, how do we overcome this. 

Insights

Design thinking is never believing you have the answer - Ewan McIntosh

Keep ideas flowing, yes and..., how might we..., have many ideas then narrow it down again, set a time limit, stay on topic ...

Different constraints: if your budget was $1, $1000, unlimited, or time limits

What is TPACK?

 

Using TPACK - remember to wear the GREEN Thinker's Hat.

 

After our previous collaborative project, our group will need to be aware of this 'Groupthink'!

Takeaways

Using Tools to help Ideate - https://ideamap.ai/

If we look at Being Brave using this tool, the map is huge, and then we can whittle it down.

You can simplify to something like this...

Although these ideas are hard to read, there are some great ideas here that all make sense and were along the lines of what I was thinking.

Reflection

Now to implement and prototype some of them!

These are a couple I'd love to start with...

Make it Write - Scribo

Scribo: A Writing Intervention Tool

Scribo, as in Screebo, from a Latin word that means to write. 

Insights

In August 2025, it was decided that we need to focus on writing, with a target of 80% of Y8 or above in Writing by 2030. It can be applied to any student whose writing element is below the expected level. But need to apply to the Ministry to get more licenses. Can add Teachers at no cost.

14 Week intervention; it is not a trial 

Students can access 'Claro' and teachers 'Claro Foresight' to gain more information or support (AI Bot).

We need to explicitly teach students how to use the programme, not just "click and collect" at the suggestions. 

The goal is to improve writing, not to reach a particular score, as others may do. 

It can read to students; students can use speech-to-text, and we can adjust the level of feedback for students from sophisticated.

Teacher View: we can view the Scribo rubric or the curriculum rubric. 

Grove on the Menu will give you ideas for teaching skills.

Students need 50 words to generate feedback, which can be used as formative assessment. 

Looked at a Class from Tokoroa that had been trialling - worked well for Irlens and Neurodiverse students.

Dashboard:

• Can get the temperature of class/school
• Scaffolds - enhance writing
• Write Check hover - comes up with possible changes
• 100 is not the goal
• Y7 and 8 cohort - differentiate by ability
• Separate Year levels great for reporting back and producing graphs.

 

Slides 56 0n -    Steps through Set UP of Scribo + Acitivities

• Library
• Create from scratch
• Use Scribot AI
• Flip the Pen
• Can add Keywords - great for use of scientific words (Teacher Input). Feedback will support use of these

Slide 69 - show how it aligns with NZ Curriculum, AI very accurate.

When starting out 

1. Apply the law of averages to assign tasks
2. Write as soon as possible and often 
3. Many use cold write and then put that in for students to adjust. Using Scriblet, writing check and then a challenge.
4. Categories you can click on and off to make a focus.

HELP:

Effective Pedagogy in Writing

Takeaways

Post Grad Pt2: W2 - Kaupapa Maori in Design Thinking

Kaupapa Māori and Applying Te Pō to Design Thinking

Whakatauki

Toitū te kupu, toitū te mana, toitū te whenua

Without language, without mana, without land, the essence of being Māori would be lost.

Insights

Quantitative vs Qualitative

Quantitative: surveys, numerical E.g. 

Qualitative: diaries, descriptive

Positionality - Acknowledge your position; be aware of it, and you can share it.  (More in Qualitative than Quantitative, but always good to be informed and inform others)

Empathise

Empathy is crucial to all human-centred design processes, since it helps design thinkers rid themselves of their personal biases and assumptions about the world in order to gain insight into their users and their real needs. We want to be able to jump into our customer’s shoes and understand how they feel.

• Encourage customer to tell stories to help understand the problem = them digging deeper
• Ask Why? - explain their thinking/thoughts
• Non Verbal Cues - Face/body
• Look for inconsistencies
• Embrace Silence - (provides opportunities to process thoughts)
• Open-ended Questions + Unbiased

Kaupapa Maori

• Tino Rangatiratanga - The Principle of Self-determination
• Taonga Tuku Iho - The Principle of Cultural Aspiration
• Ako Māori - The Principle of Culturally Preferred Pedagogy
• Kia piki ake i ngā raruraru o te kainga - The Principle of Socio-Economic Mediation
• Whānau - The Principle of Extended Family Structure
• Kaupapa - The Principle of Collective Philosophy
• Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Principle of the Treaty of Waitangi
• Ata - The Principle of Growing Respectful Relationships

Granted the Validity and Legitimacy of Māori - no need to justify or explain who they are or what they think or where their ideas come from. (This was stated only 26 years ago).

Flipped Task

If you are in a group being researched by someone who is not Māori, Kaupapa Māori should be at the back of their minds. 

The back of a panel is not as beautiful as the front, but still very important for supporting the front and keeping it all together.

Design Thinking from a Te Reo Māori Perspective

Important to understand the kaupapa underpinning this Design Thinking Process.

1. Te Po - Empathise and Define Problem: observe, ask, listen, research, define, focus. This can be underdeveloped - often given the first thought. E.g Kids don't like maths. We need to go deeper - Not taking the problem on at face value

So not just let's get them to average, let's use blue sky thinking. Aim High!

Takeaways

This is how people should be treated.

And remember to be patient; give longer wait times.

Click on image to see link.

Attitude of Gratitude! (Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 2020)

Reflection

Do I use these 7 Principles in my Teaching? Which ones can I make sure I am doing better!