Week 6

This week we began the next phase, phase 4 which involved experimentation and prototype. This was the phase I was most looking forward to as it was the part of the process where I could get most involved in and our ideas which before now were only on paper now become tangible and real life. This process involved us moving from planning into action.

Our class Padlet of quotes

However before this began we started off using an online editing tool called 'Padlet'. This was a new document which I had never came across before but it proved to be very useful. Every person in the class was able to access the class padlet online on their individual devices and type and edit it and it would come up and be visible to everyone else. We used Padlet to write our favourite quotes from the readings we had done for this week. This was very beneficial as we could see everyone's different interpretations of the readings we had.

Writing good points about each other's ideas

Afterwards we returned back to our groups and got out our individual drawings of solutions we had made. Our tutor then asked us to stick up our drawings on a wall and write underneath on a separate page what was good about the idea. We then rotated and did this with everyone's drawings so we had a collective list of good things about each of our drawings. This was good as it helped us see the positive aspects in everyone's work and was very encouraging.





Once we had complete this we began to refine our solution to the problem. Our group having identified many positive aspects of our drawings decided to use of mixture of different aspects of everyone's work to form our solution. Our solution to the problem of hygiene in the pupil's bathroom was therefore to give pupils responsibility of their own hygiene by giving them control. This meant that we would encourage them to take control and responsibility of their own hygiene by introducing them to the importance of hygiene through a short practical science lesson and the encouraging the older students in groups to develop a campaign whether that be a video or posters to advertise the importance of washing their hands in the bathrooms. This would be turned into a competition and the winning group would then have their campaign use throughout the school.

After we had decided on our final idea we then used a system using Dr Edward De Bono's Six Thinking hats. This meant that everyone in the group had to put on a 'hat' and analyse the group's idea based on what hat they were wearing. For example, if you had a red hat you were encouraged to think and write down your immediate subjective reactions or if you were black you had to think and write down any risks or disadvantages. This was a very useful concept to use and helped us think about different aspects which we may not have considered without this.

Working through the model with our idea

Thinking Hats Model

 























Next we were given 40 minutes to make a prototype. After initially being shocked at how little time this was my group immediately got to work. We decided that we wanted to present our prototype in the form of a video as this would be most effective for portraying to the teachers our concept. We based it around a mad scientist and gave a practical example of how this could be used as a stimulus or teaching method to follow on work on a hygiene campaign to get children to wash their hands. We came up with a script, planned our presentation and filmed this all within the time limit. You can watch my groups video here!



Listening to each other's presentations and giving feedback

When all groups returned after 40 minutes it was time to make our presentations to the rest of the class. Each group gave their presentation whole the rest of us listened and recorded any likes, questions, ideas or. Once finished we stuck these post it notes in the appropriate part of the grid and moved on to do the same for all groups.

When everyone was finished we then got a chance to read post it notes for our group's presentation. We read through these and considered the points that had been raised and used this to refine and edit our presentation.



Next week we will be presenting our final prototypes to the school so as a group we will be meeting up to finish our presentation before this.