tiged course education for social innovation - session 3
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Welcome to Session Three
With a partner in your cluster, share the big idea behind your social innovation project. Share a challenge and invite feedback from your partner with ideas and
perspectives on how you might overcome the identified challenge.
Refining Our Focus
Did you complete our check-in survey? http://tdsb.tiged.org/innovation/quizzes/take/253
Adam ThompsonDublin Heights E & M School
After looking into different social innovators and exploring the Window to the World cards, we came up with different local, global and environmental problems that we may choose to address.
BLUE Cluster
Dean RobertsAgnes Macphail Public School
Grade ⅞ students brainstorming ideas for their class project: Building an IT platform that can be used to promote awareness about issues that affect the community. When done, this platform will be made available to other classrooms within the school.
The first issue, chosen by the students, will be to investigate the safest mode of transporting tar sands oil through the community; the number 9 pipeline or freight trains?
Orange Cluster
Kate BuddInglewood Heights Jr. P.S.
tweets about sugar and its impact
Green Cluster
Patrick McCartneyInglewood Heights Jr. P.S.
Bottled Water Free Zone Campaign
IDESIGN framework
Green Cluster
Jenny Zhang & Melissa HughesHighland Heights J.P.S.
Girls Issues Through Google Docs
Sharing examples including TOMS shoes & eyeglasses, Because I Am A Girl, Dove Campaign, The Story of Bottled Water.
Girls eager to learn about issues that affected girls.
Researching facts.
“Onto something inspiring!”
Green Cluster
Janis JonesBrimwood Boulevard Jr. P.S.
Four topic areas identified: 1) Global poverty2) Animal rights3) Health & Smoking4) Bullying
Four Corners Activity (‘vote with your feet’), Graph Tally
Animal Rights selected. Books about endangered species. Article: “13 Species We Might Have to Say Goodbye to in 2015” by Hyacinth Mascarenhas
Questions generated with excitement.
Purple Cluster
what can we really ? “YES we have ideas, hopes & dreams...but we don’t have any money!?”
what can we really ? What can we achieve with what we
already have? Do we recognize our assets?
photo source: http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/data/upimages/Glass-half-full-web.jpg
Resource Mapping is a form of creating your budget
How do you assess what resources you have and what you need?
Mapping Assets in Your Community
● A map or inventory of the resources, skills and talents of individuals, associations and organisations
Source: Brighter Futures Together, http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk
● Discovery and assembly of links between different parts of the community, associations, and agencies
● Used to revitalise relationships and mutual support, rebuild community neighbourhoods, and rediscover collective power
Resource Mapping
Map Assets in Your Community● Used to revitalise relationships and mutual support,
rebuild community neighbourhoods, and rediscover collective power
Source: Brighter Futures Together, http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk
○ Can stimulate and motivate change, when: people are disengaged with community, a community is fractured, disempowered associations, cynicism within agencies, when communities and staff want to change and need to see the world differently in order to discover how they could.
Resource Mapping
can stimulate & motivate change
Source: Brigher Futures Together, Assets Diagram http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/assets-diagram-2-large.jpg
Get the Word Out
What skills do social innovators need to make their projects visible?
How do you foster interest and excitement within your school and community?
Making a Pitch
A Quick Review
Wisdom from a silly video with Sean Wise,Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University.
● The Pain Statement; what problem will you solve?● The Value Proposition; how does your venture solve it?● Succinct; Easy to understand; Greed-inducing; Irrefutable
Source: The Elevator Pitch, Sean Wise, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0tan49rmc
Making a Pitch
A Quick Review
Pitch Perfect, the anatomy of a pitch...
● The need or issue you’re addressing● Describe your mission and how it will be accomplished● Identify how your offering is different from others● Share the value of your project, or why they should care● Close with the call to action
Source: Leading Community, Pitch Perfect, Sprout Self on TIGedhttp://sproutself.tiged.org/sproutself/assignments/?id=1044061
Making a PitchIndependent time to prepare key messages for pitch presentation.Within clusters you will present your project in a pitch to a defined audience!Provide each other with constructive feedback.
The anatomy of a pitch...
● What is the need or issue you’re addressing
● Describe your mission and how it will be accomplished
● Identify how your offering is different from others
● Share the value of your project and why they should care
● Close with the call to action
Making the Ask
● Negotiation skills
● A negotiation checklist
● Negotiation style advice
Source: Making the Ask, Sprout Self on TIGed http://sproutself.tiged.org/sproutself/assignments/?id=1044069
Incorporating FeedbackIndividual Time
Using the feedback provided within your cluster take individual time to incorporate it.
Refine and revise your pitch as needed
A Discussion
How could we evaluate and document the impact of our social innovation projects?
Storytelling and Impact Evaluation
Source: Logic Model Workbookhttp://www.innonet.org/client_docs/File/logic_model_workbook.pdf
A DiscussionHow might we evaluate and document the impact of our social innovation projects?
Storytelling and Impact Evaluation
Source: A Developmental Evaluation Primer, Jamie A. A. Gamble, The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation, http://www.mcconnellfoundation.ca/assets/Media%20Library/Publications/A%20Developmental%20Evaluation%20Primer%20-%20EN.pdf
Technical Learning
● Follow-up: Post your project description to the TIGed virtual classroom Project Page
● Students to pitch the idea in 30 seconds or less, record & upload
● Read three pitches by other people and complete the statements “ I like” “I wonder” “I have”
● The pitch as a basis for further opportunities
http://tdsb.tiged.org/innovation/projects/
At a glance...
Where we’ve been
Where we are now
Where we’re going
Thank you for your participation!