Sam’s Design Thinking Manifesto For our final assignment in LRNT 524, we were asked create a personal manifesto for our design thinking.
Sam’s Design Thinking Manifesto For our final assignment in LRNT 524, we were asked create a personal manifesto for our design thinking.
LRNT 524 Assignment 3a: Design Thinking Challenge In our interviews, we explored our professional settings. Sam Kirk is an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher for the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSBC) in the Language and Career College (LCC). Stephanie Messier is a human resources (HR) professional who consults with various businesses. During our synchronous exchanges, we explored the work and cultural environments of our respective worlds. We uncovered common organizational challenges such as conflicting political agendas, diverse learners, and talent retention. The one shared challenge that inspired our design was our interaction with unmotivated individuals who struggle in a virtual work setting. As an outcome of the ideation brainstorming process, we decided to develop a virtual, open-ended, and constructivism-based (Heaster-Ekholm, 2020) model that we...