Fewer Assumptions = More Creativity Engaging Screenagers

DrWarren sharing research on tracking learning and engaging Screenagers in the classroom

Fewer Assumptions = More Creativity Engaging Screenagers

In life we make assumptions to cope with the world around us, don’t we?
As the world is changing so fast it is getting more and more difficult to make accurate assumptions, isn’t it?
Isn’t collaboration becoming more and more important?


Do you remember yesterday, I blogged about Peter Skillman’s TED 2006 Talk, The Marshmallow Challenge?
In another talk about marshmallows, in Tom Wujec’s TED 2010 Talk about The Marshmallow Challenge builds on Skillman’s talk.
Wujec focuses on the nature of collaboration and the assumptions we make.
In his practice he found how the ‘prototype, refine and repeat’ process forces us to collaborate and now this (mostly) dispels our erroneous assumptions.
Tom’s practice again reinforced the idea that Business Students are the lowest scoring and asserts it is because they are trained to find the single right plan and then they execute on it.
Doesn’t this sound like many of our educational systems where they teach students to find the ‘right answers’? (junk engagement)
Also, Wujec found CEO’s are slightly above average, but when they include an executive admin with a group of CEO’s they perform noticeably better.
Tom found the admin’s have special facilitation skills that support manage the process.
Similar to Skillman’s thoughts, Wujec’s ideas are:
  • Iterative process: Prototype>refine, (feedback)
  • The capacity to play and prototype is essential
  • Manage the process and pay close attention to the work
  • Specialized skills + facilitation skills = success
  • Low skills + high stakes (incentives) ≠ success
  • Skills + high stakes (incentives) = success
  • Design is truly a contact sport with all of our senses involved
Tom shares The Marshmallow Challenge provides:
  • Shared experience
  • Common language
  • Prototype and facilitation
  • Design includes: thinking, feeling, and doing with prototypes
In themarshmallowchallenge.com, Wujec lists some hidden assumptions:
  • Marshmallows seem light and fluffy and can be easily supported by the spaghetti sticks.
  • When actually building, the marshmallows are not so light.
The lessons from the marshmallow challenge include:
  • We need to identify the assumptions in our project.
  • Find the real customer (or student) needs.
  • Find the cost of the product
  • Find the duration of the service.
  • Test assumptions early and often.
  • These are the mechanisms that lead to effective innovation.
When you sit in one of my face-to-face courses (or take one of my online courses) you will go through this process over and over, and because you will use your mobile device as an eWorkbook, you will track your thinking, feeling, and doing. (optimal engagement)

The value of our eWorkbook training courses is that because you have used your mobile device you can look back andsee the analytics on your mobile device.
You are now shifting evaluation from end product only (though that is still highly important) to seeing the process you experienced. (optimal engagement)

DrWarren sharing research on tracking learning and engaging Screenagers in the classroom
DrWarren sharing research on tracking learning and engaging Screenagers in the classroom








Seeing your process, you explore your assumptions and blind spots just like you would in your regular session with a coach, but now you have the benefit of seeing the ways you interact with others too. (optimal engagement)
Right now you are saying to yourself, “I can see this is for business people and top executives, but it wouldn’t work in my classrooms.”
This was developed in school classrooms and we found it so powerful that we moved it to the business training world.
Can’t educators elevate their classroom experiences the same way?  
Wouldn’t we be giving our Engaging Screenagers much more than learning to find the right plan and then blindly following that plan?
Isn’t their future success counting on collaboration to enable them to succeed in the future we don’t yet know?

Challenge assumptions and collaborate for massive success.

You can see examples of screen innovations for Optimal Experiences at JOIN THE CURATION: Google+.
Remember to engage tomorrow.
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Keep it simple.
All the Best, Warren
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