Design Thinking Workshop for Philadelphia Youth Network

1. Michele Martin, The Bamboo Project

2. Service Learning

3. Service Learning Standards
• Youth Voice
• Meaningful Service
• Link to Curriculum
• Reflection
• Diversity
• Partnerships
• Progress Monitoring

4. Design Thinking. . .
• Informs and reinforces service learning
process and standards.
• Teaches key workplace and emotional
intelligence skills.
• Reinforces the ActReflect cycle of learning.
• Empowers young people!

5. How might we . . .
Engage students in their
own learning? Build resilience & healthy
risk-taking?

6. Empathy

7. Stories & Sense-making

8. Critical Thinking

9. Relevance & Resilience

10. Prepare for this world
How might we . . .

11. Imagine If . . .

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15. Today
• Intro to Design Thinking Process
• Design Thinking Mindsets
• “How might we . . .”

16. Improve the
Morning Experience

17. Problem-Solving Approach

18. The Design Approach

19. Improve your
Partner’s Experience

20. Interviews
DO
• Ask open-ended questions
– “Tell me about. . .”
– “Can you say more?”
– “And then what happened?”
• Probe for emotions and
insights
• LISTEN!
Don’t
• Ask “leading questions”
– “Tell me about what’s wrong
with your morning commute”
• Make judgments
– “That sounds terrible!”

21. Point-of-view
Denise needs a way to wake up gently in the
morning because she feels more invigorated
and ready to greet the day when she isn’t
jarred awake from sleep.

22. What happened?

24. “How might we. . .”
• Divide into groups by mindset.
• Brainstorm ideas for your “How might we”
question.
• Post 3-5 ideas you want to try, along with how
you want to test and what you would look
for.

25. Gallery Walk

26. I like. . .
I wonder. . .
I’d like to try. . .

27. Take it Home!

28. Find more at . . .
http://www.michelemmartin.com/design_thinking_for_youth/