{"id":416,"date":"2022-01-02T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/?p=416"},"modified":"2022-01-02T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T04:42:28","slug":"lrnt-524-assignment-3a-design-thinking-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/lrnt-524-assignment-3a-design-thinking-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 524 Assignment 3a: Design Thinking Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_post_meta_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post-meta\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-418 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/01\/Water-Cooler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/01\/Water-Cooler.jpg 720w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/01\/Water-Cooler-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2022\/01\/Water-Cooler-600x450.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 648px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 648\/486;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0During 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.\u00a0The one shared challenge that inspired our design was our interaction with unmotivated individuals who struggle in a virtual work setting.<\/p>\n<p>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 excitedly named <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Digital Water Cooler Professional Development Series<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0To that effect, the LCC teachers would be involved in constructing their own development while at the same time building their own digital toolkits much in the same spirit as their newly immigrated students\u2019 realities of access and inequities (Strommel, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Our overall design thinking challenge was an insightful learning experience. Although we worked in two different worlds, we leveraged our expertise and played our strengths to design our prototype.\u00a0We are hoping that our design will receive the seal of approval of the LLC school CEO as a potential development initiative for the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Our solution is illustrated in this<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAEzyLaPVoU\/sfrex0sqPErWAA7mu04N7g\/watch?utm_content=DAEzyLaPVoU&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_source=publishsharelink\"> video<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Sam and Stephanie<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_post_meta_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/lrnt-524-assignment-3a-design-thinking-challenge\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0225\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}