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<p>We believe that your learning experience in Design Thinking for Leading and Learning will be especially powerful if you can take the course with other colleagues from your school or learning organization. We’ve created the Design Thinking for Leading and Learning <a href="/assets/courseware/v1/efe4aa7441824dca8770b11170b32b24/asset-v1:MITx+11.155x+1T2019+type@asset+block/DTLL_FacGuide2019_v8.pdf" target="_blank">Facilitator’s Guide</a> with two goals: 1) to help you make the most of taking the online course with other colleagues, and 2) to help you bring content and experiences from the online course to life in your own schools. </p>
<p><strong>A learning circle is a peer-facilitated, face-to-face group of learners who are all registered in the course.</strong> The way in which your learning circle engages with the course is entirely up to you. It might be that members of your group watch certain videos on their own time and discuss those videos in-person. Maybe your group does assignments together each week. <span style="color: #000000;">A learning circle could be quite small and informal, large and structured, or anything in between.</span> Your learning circle should interact with the course in the ways that seem most valuable and productive. The Facilitator's Guide has ideas and strategies for working collaboratively, including:</p>
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<li>Questions to prompt discussions about course content</li>
<li>Strategies for making assignments and activities more collaborative</li>
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<p><strong>ACCESS THE FACILITATOR'S GUIDE <a href="/assets/courseware/v1/efe4aa7441824dca8770b11170b32b24/asset-v1:MITx+11.155x+1T2019+type@asset+block/DTLL_FacGuide2019_v8.pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1em;">*The Design Thinking for Leading and Learning Facilitator's Guide is based on <a href="https://www.p2pu.org/en/" target="[object Object]">P2PU</a>'s <a href="https://www.p2pu.org/assets/uploads/learning_circle_downloads/facilitator_handbook.pdf" target="[object Object]">Learning Circles Facilitator Handbook</a>. </span></p>
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<p>In this course, we have shifted the emphasis away from grades. This especially means engaging with the community of your peers, and working on personally meaningful projects. What's important is the effort you put in and the experiences you have. We want to promote a spirit of inquiry, experimentation, action, and reflection. These things don't lend themselves to automated evaluation, but benefit greatly from discussion and reflection. For this reason, the course has you focus on peer evaluation and the honor system to earn your certificate.</p>
<h3>Ways to Write and Share</h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">There are three assignments, one for each unit; each assignment is broken down into 7 assignment steps. In Unit 1, we ask that you provide feedback to your classmates for Step 7. For Units 2 and 3, we ask that you provide peer feedback for Step 5. To help your classmates understand the context of the assignment step they're giving feedback on, </span>we encourage you to keep all of your assignment steps <strong>i</strong><strong>n Google Drive, <a href="https://padlet.com/" target="_blank">Padlet</a>, or some other site that allows you to share multiple files. </strong></p>
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<h3>Course Time</h3>
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<h3>Content Organization</h3>
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<li><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Videos</strong><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"> introduce a concept, demonstrate a technique, and feature interviews where we bring in designers or school leaders to share their knowledge with you. </span><strong>We often include text above the video and there is sometimes text below as well. Make sure to scroll down so you don't miss additional content or activities!</strong></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Assignments</strong><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"> are designed to let you apply what you've been learning and try out the concepts yourself. Each unit assignment has been broken down into 7 steps that align with the design process.</span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Readings</strong><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"> provide wider background in the field and deeper information about the topics presented. These resources are meant to supplement the content covered in the videos. In some cases, we have included optional readings.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"><b>Course forums</b> are another important element of the course. Sharing your thoughts and getting to know your peers is a valuable learning experience in itself.</span></li>
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<h3>Content Release Schedule and Pathways</h3>
<p>We will spend two weeks in Unit 1 exploring the design process together. After Unit 1, the content for Units 2 and 3 will launch simultaneously. </p>
<p>We want to give you the freedom and support to explore the last two units in a way that is meaningful and valuable for you for this four week period after Unit 1. </p>
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<li><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Pathway 1.</strong><span style="font-size: 1em;"> Participants who want an equal balance of design thinking for learning and design thinking for leading could spend two weeks on Unit 2 content and then the next two weeks on Unit 3 content with an equal amount of effort into both assignments. </span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Pathway 2.</strong><span style="font-size: 1em;"> Participants who are eager to learn more about sharing design thinking with students will focus on the Unit 2 content and assignment, but will also spend time exploring Unit 3. </span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Pathway 3.</strong><span style="font-size: 1em;"> Participants who feel most excited about using design thinking for systemic change will focus on the Unit 3 content and assignment, but will also spend time exploring Unit 2.</span></li>
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<h3>Use of Student Work</h3>
<p>We would like to share exemplary student work (with personal details and identifying content removed) in future instances of the course, for research purposes, with select partners and collaborators, in social media related to the course, and on the MIT Teaching Systems Lab website. We are committed to making this course a safe place to learn, and we will approach sharing with care and sensitivity. If you do not want your work to be shared, please email the course team at <a href="mailto:dtllmooc@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: #0075b4;">dtllmooc@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<h3>Grades</h3>
<p style="text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #4c4c4c;">In this course, we have shifted the emphasis away from grades. What's important is the effort you put in and the experiences you have. This especially means engaging with the community of your colleagues and peers, and working on personally meaningful projects. These things don't lend themselves to automated evaluation, but benefit greatly from discussion and reflection. For this reason, the course has you focus on peer evaluation and the honor system.</p>
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<p>If you need technical help using the edX platform, click Help, located on the top right corner of the browser screen. If you don't find your answer there, or if you find bugs or issues with the forums site, please post your question in the Technical Help category in the Course Logistics & Help area in the forums. For all other questions, please post in the appropriate area of the forums.</p>
<p><strong>The MITx Commitment to Accessibility</strong>: If you have a disability-related request regarding accessing an MITx course, please contact <a href="mailto:dtllmooc@gmail.com" target="_blank">dtllmooc@gmail.com</a> as early in the course as possible. Requests are reviewed via an interactive process to meet accessibility requirements for learners with disabilities and uphold the academic integrity for MITx.</p>
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<p>Social media have created powerful new tools for school leaders to form informal communities of practice with educators around the world. As you proceed through the course, we encourage you to share your learning both in our forums and in whatever online networks you participate in. </p>
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<h4>JUSTIN REICH - INSTRUCTOR</h4>
<p><span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Justin Reich (edX username: JustinReich) is the director of the Teaching Systems Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research scientist with MIT Open Learning, and an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Comparative Media Studies. He is also the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week, and his writings have appeared in Science, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications.</span></p>
<h4>ELIZABETH HUTTNER-LOAN - INSTRUCTOR</h4>
<p>Liz (edX username: LizHL) is <span style="font-size: 1em;">a Digital Learning Lab Fellow with the MIT Office of Digital Learning. She develops and manages massive open online courses (MOOCs) pertaining to education and educational technology. She enjoys engaging with learners all over the world and creating meaningful online educational experiences. Previously, she was an Instructional Developer for the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. While at Gordon-MIT, she collaborated with the company AMD to create a text-based simulation related to engineering leadership. Prior to her time at MIT, Elizabeth worked at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. </span></p>
<h4>ALYSSA NAPIER - INSTRUCTOR</h4>
<p>Alyssa (edX username: amnapier) recently graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Chemistry and now develops MOOCs for educators in Eric Klopfer's Scheller Teacher Education Program/Education Arcade Lab and MIT's Teaching Systems Lab (TSL). While an undergraduate, she worked with MIT's Institute Community and Equity Office to develop programming to strengthen the MIT community and bring awareness to issues of race. She also worked with TSL director, Justin Reich to research whether participants in politically-charged MOOCs engage in deliberative discourse. </p>
<h4>BLAKE SIMS - SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERT </h4>
<p>Blake (edx username: Blake847) <span style="font-size: 1em;">is a dynamic educator and entrepreneur dedicated to providing unique learning experiences that challenge and inspire middle and high school students. Her teaching experience in Chicago Public and internationally, along with her work at Harvard Graduate School of Education catalyzed her into a career that instills 21st century skills into the next generations of leaders, thinkers, and entrepreneurs. Through her education startup </span><a href="http://www.epiicsolutions.org/" target="[object Object]" style="font-size: 1em;">epiic solutions</a><span style="font-size: 1em;"> Blake works with students, schools, business leaders, and start-ups to create researched-based design-thinking and entrepreneurship curriculum. </span></p>
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<h4>KELLEY HIRSCH - INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER</h4>
<p>Kelley (edX username: kmhirsch) develops MOOCS for educators, school leaders, and administrators. She has previously developed small private online courses with Harvard Business School Online, and has created in-person and digital learning experiences for museum visitors of all ages. She holds a B.A. in Classical Archaeology and Art History from Macalester College and an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.</p>
<h4>ABIGAIL MACHSON-CARTER - INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER</h4>
<p>Abby (edX username: amachson) develops MOOCs for educators in MIT's Teaching Systems Lab (TSL). Previously, she developed universally-designed teaching tools at CAST.org, and created in-person and online writing courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Pomona College in California, an M.F.A. in creative writing from UMass Boston, and a graduate certificate in instructional design from UMass Boston.</p>
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<p><strong>Video Producers:</strong> Garrett Beazley and <a href="http://www.freshcognate.com/" target="[object Object]">FreshCognate</a> (Aimee Corrigan, Denez McAdoo, Daymian Mejia, Doug Pietrzak) </p>
<p><strong>Forums Engineer</strong>:<span style="font-size: 1em;"> Brandon Hanks</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1em;">Music composed by <a href="http://zevburrowsmusic.com/" target="_blank">Zev Burrows</a></span></p>
<p><strong>Key Team Members at MITx:</strong> Sarah Davis & Shelly Upton</p>
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