• What Designing The New Girl Scouts Innovation Badges Taught Us About Raising Leaders | Co.Design | business + design

  tags: innovation scouts badges microcredentialing #MustRead PBL creativity leadership #CohortRead

  • In thinking about what we’ll need from our future leaders, executives have come to realize that the ability to innovate will be one of the foremost qualities–that is, the ability to quickly identify solutions for problems, many of which don’t even exist yet.
  • To paraphrase President Barack Obama: Innovation is our ticket to success in the future.
  • When we started to design the program, we realized that it would need to be much more than about designing cool stuff; it would have to involve developing empathy.
  • 1. Leverage children’s existing creativity
  • The trick in creating the Innovation badge curriculum was to strike a good balance between providing suggestions and letting the girls’ inner interests guide them. Rather than dictating the right way to develop new ideas and businesses, the Innovation badges let the girls choose among three options at each step, encouraging them to work on something they’re passionate about. This way, they can customize their own program to match their unique interests and style.
  • 2. Train hybrid thinkers
  • 3. Build empathy before solutions
  • 4. Enable great storytellers
  • 5. Get feedback early and often

• 12 Questions To Promote Self-Knowledge In Students

  HT @therealjamcam

  tags: questions #mustread metacognition citizenship thinking

• School of Rock | The Life of Pinya

  Inspiring insight on PBL, from the blog of a high school sophomore.

  tags: PBL #mustread

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