Guidelines For Classroom Interactions

Critical Thinking
Design Thinking
The Social Impact Revolution
 Summary From the MIT Website
• Share responsibility for including all voices in the conversation. If
you tend to have a lot to say, make sure you leave sufficient space to
hear from others
• Listen respectfully. Don’t interrupt, turn to technology, or engage in
private conversations while others are speaking.
• Be open to changing your perspectives based on what you learn
from others.
• Understand that we are bound to make mistakes in this space.
 Summary From the MIT Website
• Understand that your words have effects on others. Speak with care.
• Take pair work or small group work seriously. Remember that your
peers’ learning is partly dependent upon your engagement.
• Understand that others will come to these discussions with different
experiences from yours. Be careful about assumptions and
generalizations you make based only on your own experience.
• Make an effort to get to know other students. Introduce yourself to
students sitting near you. Refer to classmates by name and make
eye contact with other students.
• Understand that there are different approaches to solving problems.
Learning the Art of Critical Thinking
 As a manager, leader, employee, citizen, lover, friend, parent---in every realm and
situation of your life, good thinking pays off. Poor thinking, in turn, inevitably causes
problems, wastes time and energy, engenders frustration and pain.

 Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are
capable of in any set of circumstances.

 Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking, Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul
Design Thinking
 “Design Thinking is an iterative process in which we
seek to understand the user, challenge assumptions,
and redefine problems in an attempt to identify
alternative strategies and solutions that might not be
instantly apparent with our initial level of
understanding.”

 Interaction Design Foundation

 https://www.interaction-
design.org/literature/article/what-is-design-thinking-
and-why-is-it-so-popular
Design Thinking
 Empathise – with your users
 Define – your users’ needs, their problem, and your
insights
 Ideate – by challenging assumptions and creating
ideas for innovative solutions
 Prototype – to start creating solutions
 Test – solutions
Design Thinking
 Earning $26 Per Month in Exchange for Hard Labor
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/1
0/new-industry-ethiopia-is-creating-jobs-what-
cost/?noredirect=on
Extreme poverty: Less 2.15 US per day
719 million living in extreme poverty
Almost 1/10
Soughtout by companies for labor
Design Thinking

 Enda’s Social Impact:

- Higher wages, middle class
 https://www.endasportswear.com/pages/impact - Reinvest in local community, education,
hospitals
- Reduce pollution (green house gas
 The Social Impact Revolution Is Here | Forbes emission) clothing dyes Kenya
- Foxcon Suicide in Apple companies
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVjcrRJpjo - ESG investing: ethical sustainable
company stocks (even Amazon with
protests, mistreated, low wages but cuts
 The 5 Principles of Social Impact | Marian Spier | carbon emissions)
TEDxErasmusUniversityRotterdam - Tesla trying rated ESG but making
batteries pollute in production, can’t be
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQJ2Y_F0ZY recycled
Design Thinking
 Sekbi Bogolan – Sustainable Supply Chain
Management
 https://sekbibogolan.com/sustainability/

 Interview with co-founder Binta Coulibaly

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tzXS3zMz4

 Asi – One Chance

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3C9oT-aOo
References

 Brookfield, S. D., & Preskill, S. (2012). Discussion as a Way of Teaching:

Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. Wiley.
 Sensoy, Ö., & DiAngelo, A. (2014). Respect Differences? Challenging the
Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education. Democracy and
Education, 22(2), Article 1. Available at:
https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol22/iss2/1