Design Thinking: Discovery

Our second session of our Design Thinking was called 'Discovery'. In this session we went through a role play activity at the fictional 'Kuaotunu area school'. 

The context for this session was a teacher/parent information session, where the Principal was reporting to the parents some of the issues at the school. We were all given a role to play for the session, these roles ranged from a parent who was a lawyer to the local plumber. The Principal reported the school's issues (our identified challenges) and within our roles we had to question these challenges and talk through why they were a potential problem. 

This was a great session as it helped to show and clarify to others what our challenge is and why it is a challenge. It was great to get the perspectives from the other teachers in the room - especially in their role playing character. I think it highlighted to me, that this is an issue among our students and there are so many possible reasons as to why this has occurred, but also so many possibilities to remedy it. The perspectives of my other MIT colleagues helped me to see that. 

I am looking forward to seeing where this challenge will go - especially with the help of my other MIT colleagues.