design thinking action lab

1. Design Thinking Action Lab, 2013 July
By Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University
Ideate
Brainstorming
“Mind Mapping” Method
Lucimara de Almeida
The problem!
John needs a way to implement in his classes a laboratory model to approximate
the theory school of market practices so that students are better prepared for the
needs of the labor market

2. Ideas
related to
the market
Internship
program
Ask for mentoring
Short trainings on
business vision
Additional
disciplines after
school hours
Technical lectures by
market professionals
Hands-on projects
bring to the
school
Visits to factories
Workshop with
companies
Discussion about
themes of market
Visits to the
community to
know the real
problems

3. Try activism to
influence work
practice
Discussion about
behavioral skills
required by the
market
Create job
placement
programs
Help with mock
interviews
Create services to the
population related to
the disciplines given
to students
Stalk your future
coworkers
Behavioral lectures by
market professionals
Develop and offer
a mentoring
program
Link grades to
jobs
Workshop about
technological
trends
Ideas
related to
the market

4. Ideas
among
peers
Create groups of
study to make
practical projects
implement
practical projects
of disciplines with
risk and decisions
Offer counselling
to the students
Create groups of
research of
technology trends
Distribute project
activities according to
students' abilities and
expectations
Make cooperative
learning networks
with other schools
Do a personal swot
related to work
market
Descentralized in
teacher education
Self study is
required
Good teachers
inspire learning

5. Ideas
among
peers
Establishes
meditation
routines to
prevent stress
Apply profile tests
Devise a personal
strategy
Post videos about
professional
lectures
Develop career
center
Create support
groups for doubts
about project
Create game to deal
with rejection
Skill profiling
Placement based
on profile
Do personality
tests

6. General
ideas
Implements
techniques of
concentration
implement
physical exercises
to improve health
Celebrate new
ideas in the group
Elect focal points
in class
Take turns the
leadership group
Promote games
Implement board
games to train
strategy
Promote
integration of
classes
Perform
campaigns clean
desk in the
laboratory
Give feedbacks

7. i. the most practical idea: Internship program
Idea Selection!
Publish monthly on the bulletin board, the internship programs offered
by the market. In Brazil there is an entity that takes care and provide of
the internship between students and companies, called CIEE (Centre for
Integration School-Student) and this entity can provide the school
announcements.
ii. the most disruptive idea : Create services to the
population related to the disciplines given to students
For example, if the school has a course in Accounting, students of such
courses can serve small shopkeepers of the neighborhood in which they
live and to help them care for their own accounts, including teaching
them how to do some transactions.
If the school has a course of physical therapy, can have free sessions for
people who need this service in the community, given by the students.
Such activities are always supervised by the class teacher and so,
students will make a good for society and will be learning.

8. iii. your favorite idea : Visits to factories
Visit factories and companies gives the student the feeling of being
inserted in the workplace. See how things happen for a day, is one of the
exercises that can be up and expect a decision when choosing career.
Idea Selection!