Empathy, Collaboration and Innovation
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So, tell us about yourself‌ + name + role + one word #EmpathyToy
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How do we foster innovation?
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How do we foster innovation? Discussion Play Design #EmpathyToy
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Hello! Twenty One Toys #EmpathyToy
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21st century skills
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“How do we prepare our schools & offices for the 21st Century?”
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Innovation Creativity Collaboration Complex-Problem Solving #EmpathyToy
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Innovation practice Creativity assess Collaboration understand Complex-Problem Solving #EmpathyToy
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Textbooks
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Textbooks
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“Toys are the New Textbooks”
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98% of 3 year olds “creative geniuses” By the time they’re 25? Only 2%* *Kyung Hee Kim (2011): The Creativity Crisis
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Top three skills required by Fortune 500 were: 1970: reading, writing, arithmetic
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Top three skills required by Fortune 500 were: 1970: reading, writing, arithmetic 1999: teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills #EmpathyToy
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“Empathy can be taught... companies can reap the rewards of an investment made in training.� -Harvard Business Review
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“The top 10 [most empathic companies] generated 50% more earnings than those ranking least.� -Harvard Business Review
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Toys in i 43 countries
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“[One of] six new technologies that are shaping the classrooms of the future.”
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Innovation‌
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Innovation‌ is uncomfortable is collaborative starts with empathy #EmpathyToy
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Innovation is uncomfortable
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Let’s Play!
Builder
(Blindfolded) Has loose pieces!
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Guide
(Blindfolded) Has built pattern!
Observers Takes notes Can’t speak
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Let’s Debrief! Blindfolded players - how did you feel? Observers - what did you see?
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Innovation is collaborative
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First Round!
Blindfolded guide gives instructions to three blindfolded builders #EmpathyToy
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Second Round!
Sighted guide gives instructions to three blindfolded builders #EmpathyToy
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Let’s Debrief! What was different about how you collaborated in each game? What accounted for this difference?
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Let’s Debrief! How will you apply these lessons in your role here?
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Innovation starts with empathy #EmpathyToy
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Orientation & Mobility Where Am I? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? #EmpathyToy
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Let’s Design! empathize prototype test iterate #EmpathyToy
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Let’s Design! empathize prototype test iterate #EmpathyToy
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Who is your audience? What is their challenge? #EmpathyToy
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Let’s Design! empathize prototype test iterate #EmpathyToy
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Play Metaphor
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Play Metaphor Game 1: Discomfort with something new
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Play Metaphor Game 1: Discomfort with something new Games 2 & 3: How perspective affects collaboration #EmpathyToy
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Let’s Design! empathize prototype test iterate #EmpathyToy
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When will you try your play metaphor? How will you know your game is working? #EmpathyToy
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Let’s Design! empathize prototype test iterate #EmpathyToy
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Who was your session for? What was its purpose? What will you try next?
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“What things are you avoiding because they’re uncomfortable?
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“What things are you avoiding because they’re uncomfortable? “How many languages are you speaking?”
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“What things are you avoiding because they’re uncomfortable? “How many languages are you speaking?” “What assumptions are you making that might be stopping you?” #EmpathyToy
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Play & Work
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Thanks for playing!
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before you go‌ feedback forms! (5mins)
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jane@twentyonetoys.com
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Thanks for playing! #EmpathyToy
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