Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

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Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

• CDI

MING
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Questions and Answers

• Any question you would like to ask?????

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Lecture 5

• Brain Storming
• The power of group project
• P-M-I thinking method
• Questioning

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Brain storming

• Brain storming is a thinking method introduced
  by Alex Osborn.

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Brain storming

• It is a collective thinking method, making use of
  a group of individuals to voice out their
  creativity ideas for a problem.

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Brain storming

• Everyone within the group is encourage to deliver
  their ideas, no matter how crazy it is.

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Brain storming

• Within brain storming activities, we must allow
  nonsense and jokes.

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Brain storming

• Avoid Innovation Killer
• No criticism or evaluation should be done within
  brain storming activities.

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Brain storming

• Avoid Innovation Killer
• All members share the same identities and role
  play

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Brain storming

• Points to note when conducting brain storming
• Everybody should involved.
• Allows nonsense and jokes

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Brain storming

• Record down all possibilities.
• Map out the relationship if necessary.
• Compromise with each other the best solutions.

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Brain storming

• Task One (5 mins.)
• Can you formulate the value of a girl?

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Brain storming
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Brain storming

• Are you ready??
• Let us try this out, any topic?

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Brain storming

• Task Two (10 mins.)
• Each group is now having a topic to start up your
  brain storming. Do not let the other group knows
  what you are working at.

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Brain storming

• Propose as many possible solutions as you can,
  and record those down by mind mapping method.

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Brain storming

• Tack 3 Continue (20 mins.)
• Now, all of you are given a Lego construction
  kit. By making use of the Lego, choose one of the
  most appropriate idea to elaborate the idea of
  your group.

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Brain storming

• You are asked to present your idea to the others,
  without mention the stated keywords, seeing
  whether the others can decipher your work and
  identify the initial statement.

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Brain storming

• It is really difficult for us to express our
  ideas without using languages. Why?

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Importance of Group Project

• As an educator, we encourage students doing group
  project. Why?
• Can you figure out the advantages of group
  project?

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Importance of Group Project

• What are the disadvantages of doing group project?

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Importance of Group Project

• Advantages
• Collective intelligences.
• Learn from the others.
• Save resources.
• Develop social sense.

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Importance of Group Project

• What are the disadvantages of doing group project?

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Importance of Group Project

• Disadvantages
• Selfishness.
• Conflicts and fights.
• Fair assessment.
• Commitment of individuals.

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Importance of Group Project

• Is group project valuable in Education? If yes,
  how can we design a good group project?

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Importance of Group Project

• My opinions
• Freedom in grouping.
• Group responsibilities and continuous assessment.
• New and challenging.
• Students master the project.

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Importance of Group Project

• But, how can we design a group project? Any ideas?

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Importance of Group Project

• One of my works
• Relay Thinking

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Importance of Group Project

• Relay thinking is an Individual-group interactive
  project, which students have to think
  individually, and work as a team in order to
  score high marks.

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Importance of Group Project

• The central idea in relay-thinking is to carry on
  the criteria and the thinking path already set up
  by his/her partners.

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Importance of Group Project

• Each student will think on his/her own on a
  specific topic, and then pass it to his/her
  partners. The other students will carry on the
  design process towards the final solution and
  evaluation.

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Importance of Group Project
A
B
D
C
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Importance of Group Project

• A Problem Identification
• B Research and Investigation
• C Initial ideas and development
• D Final Design
• A Evaluation

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Importance of Group Project

• Students are not allowed to alter any ideas or
  works done by their partners, but try their very
  best to polish up the argument and round up the
  solution.

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Importance of Group Project

• Are you ready?
• Let us try that out.

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P-M-I Thinking method

• PMI is a thinking method especially useful for
  one to think about an action or behavior of
  oneself. It is a three sides mapping technique
  used for analyzing a question.

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P-M-I Thinking method

• P Plus, all positive matters.
• M Minus, all negative concerns of an issue
• I Interesting factors

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P-M-I Thinking method

• Example
• Second HKCE examination

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P-M-I Thinking method

• Plus
• Second chance for student.
• Lower the pressure.
• Fair to everybody.

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P-M-I Thinking method

• Minus
• More examinations (Mock)
• More workload for EA and teachers
• More chance in making mistakes
• More administration cost more admission fee
  charged
• More argument in the result .

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P-M-I Thinking method

• Interesting factors
• More fun in setting examination papers.
• More challenges to both teachers, parents and
  students.
• More issues become news headings ..

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Questioning

• What is a question?
• Express or feel doubt about something.

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Questioning

• What is a problem?
• Thing that is difficult to deal with or
  understand
• Question to be answered or solved.

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Questioning

• What is the usage of a question?
• Collecting data and information
• Finding facts
• Challenging logic
• Initiate creativity

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Questioning

• Conventionally, we ask question and than we look
  for an answer. But is it okay? Can we answer
  everything?

Answer
Question
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Questioning

• Structuring a question

Motivation
Q - 0
A - 0
Q 1
Q 1
A - 0
A - 0
Response
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Questioning

• Question can be side track

Q - 0
A
Q x
Q y
Times up
Q x
B
B
Q x
C
B
Q x
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Questioning

• Question within creativity is to evoke and arouse
  responsive thinking. We are NOT looking for an
  answer in a logical sense, but un-thoughtful
  instinct.

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Questioning

• Teacher should conduct Q A Q process very
  fast. The shortest the interaction time is, the
  more unexpected and creativity answers.

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Questioning

• Prohibited responses
• I dont know
• Repeat the former question / answer
• Personal attack
• Teachers comment

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Questioning

• We can structured the questions and answer
  process based on the 6 Ws, 3 Levels, and N
  answers. I call this as a Question Matrix.

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Questioning
Why
What
Perception
Whom
Concept
How
Where
Idea
When
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Questioning

• Are you ready?
• 50 questions / answers concerning about

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Thank You

• Ming 2001