Open Data / Open Minds is a prototyping project that explores ways that paper, electronics, data-literacy and connectivity -- for workbooks, for communities -- can bring together new opportunities for interdisplinary teaching and learning. We are working on a pilot offering for the Letters to the Next President initiative, L2P2.0, as a potential engagement platform. This presentation was shared with lead educators, program directors and researchers on March 30, 2016 at the National Writing Project.

1. Open Data/Open Minds
A Design Conversation
@ Manylabs & the National Writing Project
March 28 - 30, 2016

2. AGENDA
Welcome
Who’s Here
• CO-DESIGN WORK
MyEdit Notepad
Open Data Open Minds
• LUNCH 12:00
Product Flow/Worksheet
Breakout
Feedback
• WRAPUP

4. Paper Meets Electronics:
Turning the traditional
notebook into a tool for
prototyping

5. The 21st Century Notebooking Inquiry project
has served as a natural springboard for
teacher leaders to emerge within their schools
while tinkering with multi-modal composition
in the form of writing and flat copper tape, tiny
batteries, LED lights, and microprocessors.
- Western PA Writing Project
March 2016

6. Paper as Interface and
the Undeniable Appeal of
the Coughing Panda
Jeannine Huffman, adjunct faculty at Teachers College
of San Joaquin, STEM and Design Instructor, and
dedicated notebook hacker, is working with Dr. Sherry
Hsi on a servo project for the Hack Your Notebook
series.
The goal: actuate a small, low-cost servo causing the
panda to move based on air quality levels in Shenzen,
China.
Find Jeannine @HuffmanJeannine and visit her
Weebly site, http://jeanninehuffman.weebly.com/ , for
more information on her work with notebooks, paper
and electronics.
@HuffmanJeannine

7. Roland Ellis (@RolandEllis), lead designer for the
Google MyEdit project, and colleagues Louis Mustill
and Arron Smith from Artists & Engineers
(@ArtistEngineers) came to San Francisco to work with
the Open Data/Open Minds team and explore
possibilities for connected paper in a learning setting.

8. Image credt: Roland Ellis

9. Image credt: Roland Ellis

10. Image credt: Roland Ellis

12. Image credt: Roland Ellis

13. Image credt: Roland Ellis

14. OPEN DATA / OPEN MINDS Team – AM Ritual
In order left to right
Lis Sylvan
Myriam Bouchard
Arron Smith
Louis Mustill
Jorrit Poelens
Roland Ellis
Anne Mayoral
David Cole (not pictured
– taking the photo!)

15. OPEN DATA / OPEN MINDS Sticky Notes

16. OPEN DATA / OPEN MINDS Features/Requirements/Opportunities/Constraints

17. OPEN DATA / OPEN MINDS Team – Foam Core Mockups

18. OPEN DATA / OPEN MINDS – data work

19. OPEN DATA / OPEN MINDS
• Timestamp:Value Table
• Model for handling datasets,
aggregating and recompiling
records for display
• Single device for connected paper
display to multiple local devices in
communication
• Multiple devices(eg: learners)
connected through cloud

20. • Middle school students are
interested in asking the new
president to protect wildlife. They
decide to make a menagerie of
animals affected by different
human actions: a coughing
panda, etc.
• A museum leads an event in
Golden Gate Park in which
people use their Bookmark
displays to tell a story about
themselves. All of the pieces are
brought together to make a
community art project.
• High school students decide to
give the President a "letter" that
displays how their generation is
feeling based the changes in
Instagram hashtags.
• As part of Hour of Code a
museum offers a half day
workshop in which visitors create
data visualizations with
preloaded datasets that they can
then take home. The workshop is
designed so that the visualization
project teaches you enough
about the tool that you can do
more with it once you get it home.
• Middle school students carry
counters and will count every
time they witness or are a victim
of bullying. These can be
compared to national statistics,
across school or classes.
Program is taught between
Health, Math, and English.
• Upper elementary students use
accelerometers to track their
movement on the playground
and then create displays with it.
Taught between Computer or
STEM Lab and Gym.
• Middle school students are
interested in asking the new
president to protect wildlife. They
count the number of different
wildlife in their town. They create
a visualization of where in the
town the wildlife is located and
use it to find land that should be
preserved.
• High school students decide to
give the President a "letter" that
displays how their generation is
feeling based the changes in
Instagram hashtags.
•
OPEN DATA /
OPEN MINDS
Use Cases

21. LUNCH
DESIGN TIME

22. Anne’s Notebook on Day 1,
teasing out goals for
connecting data viz to paper
circuitry projects as part of a
student response to L2P2.0

23. Louis’ notebook on Day 2,
working out informational
design, use of conductive
ink for instructions and
interface elements

24. Drought,
Water Usage
in the Bay
Area and a
Changing
Climate
The
Environment
OPEN DATA/
OPEN MINDS
in a MyEdit
Mockup
Proposed Learning
Sequence for a Survey
Activity
• PROJECT
• Topic Selection
• Background
• Survey Criteria

25. I’m
interested in:
State of California
San Francisco County
San Mateo County
Alameda County
Usage Patterns
Historical Data
Conservation Policy
In this
region:
OPEN DATA/
OPEN MINDS
in a MyEdit
Mockup
Proposed Learning
Sequence for a Survey
Activity
• Project
• TOPIC SELECTION
• Background
• Survey Criteria

26. Urban Usage
accounts for
OPEN DATA/
OPEN MINDS
in a MyEdit
Mockup
Proposed Learning
Sequence for a Survey
Activity
• Project
• Topic Selection
• BACKGROUND
• Survey Criteria

27. My Opinion
Engaged, Committed
Interested,
Sometimes
Not at all
Option A
Option B
Option C
Record Class
Awareness
OPEN DATA/
OPEN MINDS
in a MyEdit
Mockup
Proposed Learning
Sequence for a Survey
Activity
• Project
• Topic Selection
• Background
• SURVEY CRITERIA

28. Developed By:
Open Data / Open Minds. Design Team
March 30 2016
Teacher/Learner
Flow

30. Developed By:
Open Data / Open Minds. Design Team
March 30 2016
Teacher/Learner
Flow
AK TEACH
Kodiak, AK
Western PA WP
Pittsburgh, PA
Bay Area
PILOT: 15 Classrooms/
After-School Programs
• 5 Bay Area
• 5 AK
• 5 PA

31. OPEN DATA/OPEN MINDS
Contact
@dmcole_
david.cv2@gmail.com
415.871.9998