Reflection Exercises 2A - Distractions and Savvy Goats - Entrepreneurship is an Adventure

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00:07you hear me ? Mhm . Anita , I can
00:13hear you , you can hear me well thanks somebody
00:15can hear me , That's a good thing Andrea can
00:18you hear me ? I don't think so um I
00:25can just write in the chat . Um So and
00:35here you're back with us . Yes . Um can
00:39you all hear me ? Yes can you add the
00:42tallest tower challenge package so that everyone can open that
00:46and take that with him , make that available to
00:50them ? Yes it will be after the session .
00:55Okay they should be able to download it while it's
01:01going . Okay would you like me to show that
01:05now ? Yes please . Mhm . This one No
01:11the number three in the playlist . The tallest tower
01:15challenge package . Yes that's it . Thanks well good
01:20. Um in the interest of time I'm gonna kick
01:22us off everybody . Welcome to this session we have
01:24reflection , exercise distractions and savvy goats , entrepreneurship is
01:28an adventure just like getting this audio so that this
01:31morning . So my name is Andrew , Eastman Roland's
01:34founder and Ceo of Western Learning and if you are
01:36joining us remotely please be aware that we encourage you
01:39to share your video , we will be reported and
01:42I'm here with a degree in the room to moderate
01:44and troubleshoot any technical issues . So with that I'll
01:47turn it over to our first speaker and so Andrew
01:52, if you could replace this document here for everyone
01:55to get a copy of it download it and then
01:58I can go back to my video . Yeah can
02:03you hear on your end ? Look can you get
02:06on your laptop though ? Yes . Can you can
02:13you take this off the screen ? Okay . Let
02:20me see if I can get it back since that
02:22came up . I can't find it now . Yeah
02:37, I had it on the screen and that word
02:39doc took its place and I can't find it .
02:43Okay . Mhm . Um Do you have it there
02:52locally on your laptop ? You can do it at
02:54this creature . See here this looks like it might
02:59be it . Okay . Um pdf So I Okay
03:21perhaps you can play this number five in the playlist
03:32Avery or Andrea . Alright . Are there any time
03:43? I can't hear you very well . You're very
03:45echoey . Uh It's number five in the playlist .
03:49Every if you could play it . Mhm . Number
03:55five . That's it , That's number five . Yeah
04:02, that was never provided . Oh that's I'm sorry
04:10. That's just the that's not the video . Video
04:20. Yeah , it's not here under recordings any longer
04:27. I don't know where I could just go live
04:30with . I don't know , I don't know what
04:31else to do . Okay , let's do that .
04:39Anita , I can see a video on the on
04:41the folder list and I'm also able to play it
04:44. Could you play it please ? I can't do
04:46that because it's not on my list . Here you
04:51go . No that's not it . Video . Sorry
04:58, 20 minute video . Yes . The recordings .
05:0220 minute recording . This is it Yeah . Okay
05:08. Can I play it ? Shall I play it
05:13? Yes , I try . Mhm . Hello ,
05:20I am dr Anita Rose , I am the assistant
05:24professor at florida Gulf Coast University at the dabbler and
05:29continually school of entrepreneurship and I am delighted to be
05:33here and to be able to share this wonderful reflective
05:37experience with you . So , I have been teaching
05:41now for and this particular reflective exercise for about 10
05:47years actually 12 years now . I love the active
05:51learning and the applied evaluating and synthesis component that that
06:00includes course content . So I really love that part
06:04. I do really enjoy the marshmallow spaghetti challenge .
06:09It's a wonderful tower to be built and I do
06:12include that in my courses as well . And there
06:15are other tower activities that are fun to administer with
06:18students also . However , I've developed this particular reflective
06:23activity to really mimic real world scenarios . I've tailored
06:31it for formative assessments of specific course learning outcomes and
06:38I've included high levels of teen emotional social skills and
06:43team interpersonal process effectiveness . Those are areas of my
06:48research and I just love that this all comes together
06:52. Now I've been working on this course for many
06:55years and I have developed it over time and now
06:59I'm going to show you the steps so that you
07:02can administer this fun and engaging , reflective transformational activity
07:10. Okay , so let's go ahead and get started
07:18. Alright , so let's see how do we change
07:22slides ? Here we go . Okay , so the
07:26learning outcomes for this session for this activity that you'll
07:30be administering to your students . So creative and critical
07:34thinking , collaboration communications , certainly strategy and teamwork and
07:39time management . Now , those are also part of
07:42some of the other tall tallest tower type of projects
07:46. But I've really taken this to a totally different
07:50level where we've included really the emotional social intelligence portion
07:56and interpersonal process effectiveness . So I'm gonna go ahead
08:00and go into those components and I've also elevated the
08:03teamwork , that time management communication , all those parts
08:08. Uh and I can't wait to show you .
08:12Alright , so here what I start with is putting
08:15the supplies together for each team . And here I
08:18have five teams And it's very simple . I have
08:2225 sheets of copy paper . 25 popsicle sticks ,
08:24a roll of tape and a magic marker . Now
08:28these items could be changed out . They can be
08:30paper plates instead of copy paper , it could be
08:34um straws instead of popsicle sticks . It can be
08:38masking tape instead of scotch tape . And so and
08:42maybe some other type of utensil for marking and and
08:46that's fine . It's a flexible type of program which
08:51makes it really nice that you can you can change
08:54it up . I find this easy because copy paste
08:57paper is accessible to make . I have tried using
09:00this product with um with glue stick and it doesn't
09:05work all that well the tape seems to hold a
09:07bit better , but you can change it up to
09:11reflect whatever works for you . So , I had
09:15that put aside for the students . Now I have
09:17other items , other supplies on hand for the students
09:22as part of the project . And so , and
09:26it can be , this can be changed up as
09:28well . Uh , maybe I have some large paper
09:30clips , small paper clips or the alligator clips .
09:34I have some posted notes . I have some pencils
09:38or it can be just about anything that you happen
09:40to have on hand . And then I incorporate this
09:44within the memos for the students and I'll show you
09:46how that's done . Okay ? So , okay ,
09:53So let's see . So here we are . We
09:56have the teams . I've instructed them that they are
10:00going to , Here we are . We're going to
10:03break out the teams into five or six students depending
10:08on the size of the entire class . And then
10:10I asked for one volunteer observer from each team .
10:15And then , so that reduces the class . The
10:18team size down 4-5 and four is ideal . But
10:22five is okay as well . And then I give
10:26them the instructions . I tell them that they're all
10:30working for the same architectural firm That they have 30
10:33minutes to complete their tower project . And their task
10:38is to plan and build this tower . I the
10:42plan is to build the tallest tower that's freestanding ,
10:45aesthetically pleasing and that's earthquake proof . I'll show you
10:49how that all comes together . So it sounds simple
10:52enough , right ? Uh not necessarily . So what
10:56I do is when I have the students in the
10:59planning stage , I asked them to elect a project
11:02manager come up with a team name and they have
11:05five minutes to do so you can see some what
11:08happens . You know , students get up out of
11:11their seats , they start , you know , uh
11:14start working on this project , down on their knees
11:16in this particular case so you can see there's they're
11:18engaged and they're happy and it's a fun experience for
11:22them . So now what I do though is I
11:25take the student observers for each team and we go
11:30usually right outside the classroom door or some private place
11:33where the teams cannot hear me have my meeting with
11:36them . And I provide them with a tallest tower
11:41observation survey and I explain to them what's going to
11:44happen , that they will be observing the team members
11:49during the project , that there will be numerous interruptions
11:52and also the most valuable member of each team will
11:56be unexpectedly moved to another team . Uh then I
12:02tell them that they will observe the team's reaction to
12:05the interruptions and the loss of their most valuable member
12:10. And then I asked them to go ahead and
12:12if you have any questions and so forth and maybe
12:15just one or two questions , they seem to laugh
12:17at the idea that there's going to be something fun
12:21going on and that they're privy to it and the
12:24team is not , so then they go in and
12:26then they have their clipboard with their survey and they
12:30can go ahead and start completing the information . So
12:34now what happens is they start building their tower right
12:38? Well , basically one minute before the planning stage
12:41, I let them know there's one minute remaining ,
12:43so I keep them alert as to the timetable as
12:46we're moving along . They start building their project ,
12:49here is their tower and you can see that they're
12:52, they're engaged , they're all hands on and they're
12:54really working on it to make it the best that
12:57it can be . But what happens is five minutes
13:03into building the tower ? Yes , they have 30
13:06minutes , but five minutes in there , provided with
13:09the memo . I hand that to the project manager
13:12for each team . And so in this particular case
13:17, I tailor this to the learning outcome for a
13:20specific course . This particular course is entrepreneurship and creativity
13:25and we're using a business model canvas . Uh it
13:29can be changed up to be anything that you would
13:30like , but I alert them that this is a
13:33crisis and they need to complete this . This needs
13:36to be completed . I tell them . And so
13:39then we wait and we watch to see what does
13:43the project manager do . Does the Project manager for
13:46each team completed themselves ? Do they delegated to another
13:50team member , um what is the procedure and then
13:54the Observer is documenting this information , So now we've
13:58had this interruption . Uh Normally what happens is the
14:04project manager will just put the memo down because they're
14:07so focused on the tower that they just set it
14:11down and then forget about it and they're right back
14:13into building the tower with the team . So then
14:17I have everyone stop a minute later , I see
14:20not much is happening with the memo , so I
14:22tell everyone they must stop building the tower , complete
14:26the memo , and then once they've completed the memo
14:30and brought the memo to me and me being the
14:32ceo I have my title , being the ceo the
14:37CFO every executive position there , Chief executive position for
14:42the firm . Alright , so then uh they complete
14:47the form once they've completed the form and hand it
14:50to me and it is correct , then they may
14:52resume building their tower , so this is fun ,
14:56fun time and um they get a little stressed out
15:00because they can't build and they're waiting and they're trying
15:03to figure out how to get this done quickly and
15:06it takes time . Uh And then after the first
15:11memo is completed five minutes later they're back into building
15:14the tower again , I interrupt them with a second
15:17memo , a much lengthier memo , uh and it's
15:23very consuming , it's very detailed and it takes quite
15:28a bit of time to complete . But at the
15:30very bottom of the memo , the very last line
15:33explains to the teams that they don't have to complete
15:38all the items on this list . And only once
15:43have I ever had someone read the entire memo and
15:47say , oh my goodness , I don't have to
15:48do this at all , let's just go back to
15:49building the tower . So , and then again there's
15:54a third memo and 1/4 time prevails , so and
15:58then all these memos tie in course learning objectives ,
16:02so that you can really have your formative assessment for
16:06your course learning outcomes . And so it makes it
16:10interesting and fun and they move forward with with building
16:15this tower , with all the interruptions that are going
16:17on . Now , what I do is halfway through
16:21, I tell them that I asked each project manager
16:26to point out their most valuable member , and then
16:29I switched them , as I had already mentioned earlier
16:32, I tell the Observer that that's what's going to
16:35happen . So I switch the team most valuable team
16:39members and that's very upsetting to the teams , they've
16:43lost their most valuable member . Now , that member
16:47goes to another team . How does that member react
16:51to a new team ? How does the member react
16:55for leaving the team ? How does the team react
16:57to the new member ? These are all really very
17:01common , real world scenarios , right ? We're working
17:05on a project , we have lots of interruptions and
17:08when we're working on a project with a team .
17:11Oftentimes someone gets promoted or they leave to take a
17:17job elsewhere . And so this , these are all
17:19real world scenarios which are fun and enjoyable to see
17:24from my point of view , a little difficult to
17:28master for the students and then their , you know
17:31, their emotional social skills shine or they might be
17:36frustrated and we talk about that after all . Right
17:39, so here we are , we move along ,
17:42they're building the towers , they have those interruptions there
17:46, completing the memos here , as you can see
17:51, and then we get down to the very last
17:56. I remind them at the five minute point when
17:58there's five minutes remaining , I remind them again when
18:01there's three minutes , one minute and at the 32nd
18:05mark , what I do is I play Europe the
18:10final countdown , you can find it on YouTube .
18:13I started at the four minute time and run it
18:17for 30 seconds and the students are really energized by
18:21it . So here you can hear how it goes
18:24, wow , yeah , yeah . Is okay .
18:43So you get the idea , it's fun . They
18:47, they're energized by , I play that rather loudly
18:51in the classroom and the students really have a lot
18:53of fun with it . But here we are towards
18:56the end and when we get to that last moment
18:59, I tell them hands off some towers immediately fall
19:03, other towers are still standing and prevailing and then
19:06I asked them to bring their freestanding tower to a
19:11front table and here you can see I have two
19:15different groups here where they're putting their towers to the
19:19front table for ready for display . And then I
19:24have a moment where I ask them well which is
19:27the tallest , which is the most aesthetically pleasing .
19:30Before we have the earthquake test and that's a lot
19:34of fun . The students really enjoy it , you
19:36can see they're all standing around , they're having fun
19:38with it . Here are some examples of some of
19:43the towers and some of them are incredibly creative .
19:46Uh and here they are ready for earthquake testing .
19:52So here , now , you can see in the
19:54middle of an earthquake task , you can see ,
19:56I'm enjoying this as much as they are getting ready
20:00to shake the tabletop to see which towers stand and
20:05the students are really thoroughly engaged . They really enjoy
20:09the process . The real lessons are not really ,
20:12how tall can you build the tower ? It's really
20:15the wonderful reflective exercise . So , here what we
20:20do is I asked the student observers to report their
20:25findings and that's very revealing . Um often times they
20:30are very detailed and they really give a good accounting
20:33of what occurred with their team then after that ,
20:37I uh , so we do that with all the
20:39observers one at a time . Then we have some
20:42reflection questions that can be presented in several different ways
20:46. One is live right then and there we can
20:49go over all the questions , some of the questions
20:51. Uh I can also , in addition , I
20:54have done , I have had an online component with
20:57this where I have students actually uh include their answers
21:02to these questions in an online format and we kind
21:06of can review them or they can just turn them
21:07into me . However , there's a lot of different
21:10opportunities here uh and so this is just a portion
21:15of it , I have an entire packet available for
21:17everyone , so you have all the instructions , you
21:19have all the memos , you have all the information
21:23to make this successful uh reflective activity for you .
21:31So now what have I found ? I found that
21:35collaboration uh really is a large component of this activity
21:39. You know , I've really presented this really nearly
21:42100 times now and it has improved over time ,
21:46but even though my instructions clearly state that everyone is
21:49working for the same organization , I have never experienced
21:53two or more teams joining forces , I'm very careful
21:57to tell them that it's not a competition in the
21:58beginning , that it is a that they are just
22:02working for the same organization . Uh but what I've
22:06also found is that since we talked about this during
22:10the reflective moments , I found that later activities ,
22:16future activities , students do collaborate more with other team
22:20members and other students in the class . Really nice
22:24and isn't that important to collaborate with the entire company
22:28or your partners including everyone , leadership is another component
22:33that surfaces here . One is that many times the
22:37project manager will complete the memos themselves and someone else
22:41will step up from the team to take on that
22:43leadership role to move the project forward . And so
22:48it's interesting to see what dynamics happen there with leadership
22:52development , uh communication and critical thinking . Um really
22:58only a few times have I seen some teams all
23:02working together to complete the memo at once to move
23:06things along quickly quickly , but communicating and critical thinking
23:10to make things move along faster so they can get
23:13back to their project . The emotional social skills ,
23:17you know , a well planned project typically experiences disruptions
23:22, all sorts of disruptions . Alright , students get
23:26annoyed about the disruption , disruptive menus and you know
23:30, losing a valuable team member . That's also a
23:34point of irritation for students . Uh they they often
23:39have a deep and thoughtful introspection on how they may
23:45have reacted more with more controlled emotions and I see
23:51that learning moving forward so that reflection has really had
23:56a lasting effect , a transformative effect and then I
24:02have the team interpersonal process effectiveness . So I have
24:07found repeatedly doing you know , offering this scenario this
24:13reflective exercise that the students really put all their efforts
24:20and well beyond what is expected into having stronger relationships
24:25within this team exercise . It's very interesting how that
24:29all comes together . Another wonderful aspect of this is
24:34that students will just say how wonderful it is to
24:39experience this , but also have the closeness of the
24:43class and lasting friendships . You know , I've had
24:47one student tell me . I feel like our class
24:49is like a family . We are so close .
24:52I mean that's really heartwarming and wonderful to hear .
24:54And the students walk away with long lasting friendships .
24:58It's really a wonderful experience . And I hope that
25:01you will consider in this opportunity for your students uh
25:08and they're reflective exercise . I really enjoyed this and
25:13I've enjoyed being here during the entire conference and seeing
25:17how many wonderful uh opportunities there are here for me
25:22to grow as well . So , thank you so
25:25much . Anita , thank you so much for sharing
25:30that . That was fantastic . And I know you've
25:32got some other materials and even another video to show
25:35. But I'm gonna suggest we come back to that
25:39for the participants so that we can leave time for
25:41the second presenter . That's sure this is the second
25:44video is really just a few seconds and it just
25:47kind of put it all together . So if I
25:49could just show that real quickly , that would be
25:52nice . I'm sorry again , I can't hear you
25:56. Sorry , you can't . Um can you hear
26:02me rob ? I can hear you . So can
26:06you can you play that other video ? It's only
26:08about 10 seconds . Yes . The number one we'll
26:18just see if I can do it real quick .
26:21Mm hmm . I mean , okay , so I'm
26:33sorry , you can't hear me . I'd love to
26:34answer some questions , but perhaps we can do that
26:36after we can hear you . Yeah , we'll take
26:42questions at the end . Thank you so much ,
26:44Reggie . Yeah , I think it'll be fine to
26:47take questions in the end because I think there's a
26:49lot of overlap between what Anita is doing and what
26:51I'm doing . Um so um yeah , I think
26:54I'll start off with the with the presentation that I
26:56have . Um let me just put it on .
27:01Mhm . Here . Okay , so I guess you
27:05all can see the presentation . Yeah . Okay .
27:09So I start with this question for the audience and
27:14um and with the star mark here , when do
27:15you sort of do your reflective journals ? And I've
27:17just put an example of a 10 week course in
27:20in in an Engineering Bachelor Engineering School . Um and
27:26um this is where normally I would add these reflective
27:30journals , but where would you add ? Or I
27:34mean not where would you , but what do you
27:36do at the moment ? Mhm . People can write
27:42in the chat if they can access the chat or
27:44they can just speak out loud . No , there
27:51wasn't . I didn't do anything . Yes . Okay
28:05. So I haven't heard any feedback yet but that
28:10I don't know if if the , if the audio
28:12is clear , but in any case , what what
28:15we normally see is most reflective journals , they sort
28:17of end towards the end . Right . So after
28:20you've done the final design and that's when you sort
28:22of ask a reflective journal , it's it tends to
28:24be an individual exercise , you do it at the
28:26end of the course and you will at some point
28:30evaluate and then give them maybe some feedback . Um
28:34and this I mean standard practice for most courses ,
28:37um and we wanted to sort of address that a
28:39little bit and see can you actually change this process
28:43of reflection and break it down ? What if you
28:45actually incorporate a reflection after every step in the course
28:49? Right . And and and how would that sort
28:51of impact the end reflections ? I'm not saying we
28:53don't do the end reflection , but we do that
28:56, you know , as a build up . Um
28:58So that's um what was what was what I was
29:02interested in and we tried to sort of work with
29:04this kind of idea of , of having , I
29:06mean some courses , I know they run midterm reflections
29:09and then they sort of have end reflections , but
29:11we wanted to say , you know , what could
29:12you what if you actually had it during every significant
29:15milestone , for example , and this is where we
29:17sort of started working with this tool , So I
29:20use this tool , Savvy goat , which I think
29:22is a is a really fun narrative and I quickly
29:24tell you what it is um essentially Savvy Gold is
29:28like many other learning platforms out there , but I
29:30think what I liked about Savvy Gold was that it
29:33used sort of a stripped down approach because it didn't
29:37, it has project management , but it doesn't have
29:39everything the project management systems has , it has some
29:42things that learning management systems have , but it's not
29:44everything that it is just the basics like , you
29:46know , file uploads or whatever , same with journaling
29:49and Gamification and engagement systems . And I think this
29:52is what I liked that it was right in the
29:53center of all of this instead of had had sort
29:56of the core elements of all of these things ,
29:58but it was still unique in its own way .
30:00But what , what , what was very unique for
30:03me was the fact that it focused on one thing
30:05and that was team learning instead of individual learning .
30:08And I think this is something that um in entrepreneurship
30:10, I'm quite um quite encouraging , you know ,
30:14something that I'd like to encourage even more because I
30:16think entrepreneurship is a team activity and we all like
30:19to encourage that , but a lot of , you
30:21know , everything in the way standard courses are set
30:23up and the way a standard university also works ,
30:26you know , grading systems , our individual assessment systems
30:29are completely individual and reflections are also tend to be
30:32individuals . So we wanted to see , could we
30:34actually do this in a , in a team process
30:36. So if I were to really summarize what savvy
30:39goat is , this Savvy goat is essentially a dynamic
30:41sort of gamified learning platform where student teams are now
30:45referred to as goats and educators as herders . Um
30:49, and and what's interesting is both of these guys
30:52will design map plan , execute reflect and incentivize their
30:57own learning journey while simultaneously following the pier goat climb
31:00. So that means the journey of the other goats
31:02as well . And what is interesting is that you
31:05have to climb this kind of mountains . So the
31:06goat has to climb the mountain and uh and everyone
31:10thinks initially it's a race , but then they realize
31:13it's not a race . It's actually , and you
31:16realize that depending on how you earn the points ,
31:19but it's actually how savvy you are about it ,
31:21which is why we use the terms of the goat
31:23, but the idea is that you have to be
31:25effective in designing your learning journey that fits your team's
31:29strengths the best . Right ? So , and I'll
31:31try and illustrate that a little bit here . Um
31:34so this is what exactly happens now , This is
31:37the student view , this is not the teacher view
31:39. So the teacher , for example , sees a
31:41different view , but the students see sort of the
31:43mountain with all the milestones that the teacher has set
31:46, right ? And the goat position on the mountains
31:50, shows their progress through the task . And for
31:52example , here you can see six teams which are
31:54represented as six goats are , are at the on
31:57the same task and the milestones are the orange circle
32:01. So these are sort of the critical milestones that
32:04you think you need them to , to to do
32:07and and reach right . Um and students can click
32:10on the microphone and get a quick overview of the
32:12journey ahead . However , what is interesting is that
32:16if for example the team decides to deviate and go
32:19a different path by adding their own task , they
32:22can actually do that and it will be visualized on
32:24this on this platform as a new pathway . So
32:27you can actually see separate pathways for the different teams
32:31if they decide to do that or they can follow
32:33the standard , you know , the well trodden path
32:36that every other goal for example is also following .
32:38Um and that and this is what will eventually ensure
32:42that they all reach the top , but the question
32:44is , do other goats try different things um then
32:48you have a leaderboard and this leaderboard shows this kind
32:52of , you know , uh the points that they
32:54earn based on the quality of the task that they
32:57submit . So every time they submit something , you
32:59sort of give them some points and you give them
33:02, if they take a detour , maybe you would
33:04actually be pleased with the detour and you give them
33:07some some some extra points instead . However , if
33:10you think the detour was unnecessary , you can actually
33:13even give them less points and therefore they sort of
33:16realize that okay , we don't just create detours for
33:19the sake of detours , you know , it has
33:20to be some quality in it . There's always a
33:22time where they're showing how much time is left until
33:24the next deadline . And , and what is interesting
33:27is that you lose a life and you have three
33:30lives that that you can use to progress in the
33:32mountain and you lose a life every time you miss
33:35the milestone . But what is interesting is it's not
33:37only a milestone of the teacher , but also if
33:40you set your own deadline , because this , the
33:42system works in terms of setting your own short deadlines
33:45as well . So let's say that you say ,
33:47okay , we're going to talk to extra customers this
33:50week and we hope to be done by monday uh
33:54monday of next week and you set that deadline for
33:57yourself because you have to do that on the platform
33:59. And if you missed the deadline , you lose
34:01a life and you always need one active life to
34:04be able to progress on the mountain to be able
34:06to upload anything on the mountain . So what that
34:08does is it adds this kind of very interesting mechanic
34:11where you can't actually , um you know , you're
34:14, you're very careful of , of how you lose
34:16the , of how you use these lives that you
34:17have , but but of course if you lose lives
34:20and this is okay because you know , you missed
34:22the deadline , but you've got some good quality out
34:24of it and the teacher acknowledges that you get points
34:26for it . You can actually trade in some of
34:28those points to earn back lives and therefore allow you
34:31to actually make mistakes and learn from those mistakes and
34:34become better , so that's really what this , how
34:36this works , um , but but I'm more interested
34:39in of course reflections , so now what I was
34:42doing and this is just an example mountain climb of
34:45a three hour entrepreneurship boardgame exercise . Now , this
34:48is just a separate thing that I've , that I've
34:50run , just to show you that this can work
34:51in a either a semester structure or it can work
34:54in a , in a , in a three hour
34:56course or a three hour game run , like ,
34:59like we did with this with this board game .
35:00Now this board game is essentially a very , is
35:03a very fixed activity , it's actually a physical activity
35:05, but you can see the mountain on the backdrop
35:07, there , on , on , on the image
35:09and what you then do is you try and um
35:12incentivize people to to progress also with the , with
35:16, with the board game . Now , what is
35:18happening here is that you will see that in this
35:20board game , these are the questions that they are
35:22trying to solve and they're trying to map the problem
35:25, you know , come up with solutions and and
35:27and do all of that , but every step has
35:29a reflection exercise on it . Now , what is
35:32interesting is that these reflection exercises have to be documented
35:35on the savvy gold app , which is then sort
35:37of accompanying them at the same time . Now what
35:41we realize when you do this and we talked to
35:43the team's later on is they said that it was
35:46fun to discuss and it was really great that they
35:48had all these great discussions about what to do and
35:50what not to do and they thought they were in
35:52agreement , but it's only when they had to write
35:55it down onto the savvy gold platform , they actually
35:58realized that they were maybe not in agreement , because
36:01maybe we just say Um put a summary reflection of
36:04say 50 words or 100 words of of your of
36:08your outcome of that particular step . And it's only
36:11when you write things down , do you realize that
36:13you may not necessarily be in agreement , because sometimes
36:16when you just talk , it may sound like you're
36:18in agreement , but it's only when you sort of
36:20try to document it that you realize , and this
36:22was one of the very critical outcomes that we got
36:23. And I think this happens also in sort of
36:25the long form courses where we also see this ,
36:28so um this is again , it's not to pay
36:31attention to detail here , what is written , it's
36:33just a long semester course , right ? This is
36:35an entire semester . And what you can see here
36:38is this is a semester that that , that I'm
36:40running for for students in nanoscience where which is an
36:42entrepreneurship course and what you can see is that um
36:46it starts in february , it ends in uh in
36:49in May um and we have , we meet twice
36:51a week uh and then there is this milestone deadlines
36:55which are on savvy goats , so these are the
36:57, you know , the practice introduction and these are
36:59linked to the design thinking milestones , but at each
37:02of these steps , they actually have to reflect of
37:05all the steps that they have gone through here and
37:07they have to say what exactly happened here . And
37:09then of course , at the end of the course
37:11there's , there's an end of course self study on
37:13on on an individual reflection assignment as well that happens
37:17in the end . And what we realized is by
37:19structuring this kind of reflection in this particular way ,
37:22the quality of reflections changed , but the teamwork process
37:26within the group also changed significantly and this for us
37:29was really the biggest value . So I would like
37:31to end with some , some questions that I think
37:33we and I can showcase a little bit more of
37:36the , of the platform , but it would be
37:37nice to have some discussion and the questions that I
37:41have for you here is that do you think this
37:43kind of progressive continuous process reflections are more valuable than
37:46end of term reflections ? Um And then what about
37:50individual versus team reflections ? What value do you see
37:52in team reflections ? And then when you add a
37:55layer of competition , do you think competition and reflection
37:58can go hand in hand ? Um so yeah ,
38:01these are essentially my , my my slides , if
38:06I have a minute , I would like to quickly
38:09just show just how the platform can can do that
38:13, so I will quickly do that through sharing my
38:16screen , Just give me a second here . Okay
38:27, so you can see the screen now , so
38:31this is for example , this is actually a run
38:33at , I have running at Charles university , so
38:35the one that I was showing you was uh sorry
38:42, this one I wanted to show you , so
38:43there's a run that's currently going on at the University
38:45of Connecticut and what you see is this is where
38:49all the teams are listed you as a teacher have
38:51designed all the sort of the , the , the
38:54milestones and then you can see that there are reflection
38:57points that are added in between all of these milestones
39:00and this is what you see as a teacher ,
39:03you can see all the dates and the deadlines that
39:05you that you are adding , but you can also
39:06, and the student teams can add their own deadlines
39:08, this is what the students see and what you
39:12can see here is um is the different teams and
39:15they have just called themselves these , these names and
39:18uh the fainting goats for example , there , which
39:21is the yellow team and if I highlighted that's the
39:23yellow path , so in this case they none of
39:26them sort of deviated from their own pathways , but
39:28they all had very interesting reflections and that's also why
39:32they actually sort of sort of one , the one
39:35the challenge , if I , if I go back
39:37and maybe go to se codification and look at just
39:42an example , prototype reflection , so when we ask
39:49them , so this is about the technique , so
39:51they're , they're talking about it as a technique ,
39:53but if they , if you ask them something more
39:56specific and this could be something like the , the
39:59idea that reflection and I just look at this one
40:02, oh sorry , ah the fainting goats , that's
40:09the one I had to look at , so what
40:11you see is they've uploaded something and you can click
40:13on the document and it just uploads on the side
40:17. Um but what normally happens is that you can
40:20actually see what they are reflecting and so for example
40:23, what was the most challenging part of completing this
40:25milestone and what they say is that um you know
40:28, it's the most challenging was the revised project proposal
40:32and and how do you receive feedback from professors and
40:35, and it was interesting because the challenge we gave
40:37them was actually how do you think , how could
40:39you work with gamifying , savvy goat itself ? So
40:42it was , it was an interesting challenge that we
40:44, we gamified the platform and we gave them as
40:47that as a challenge . So , but yeah ,
40:49this just to give you a brief view and ,
40:51and maybe I think it's good to leave some time
40:54for reflection discussion . Great ! Thank you both so
41:01much . I don't know if you can hear us
41:03, but our audio on our end is not so
41:05great . So I'm gonna ask you guys to run
41:07the questions if you'd like to share one in the
41:09chat . Um invite our speakers to just jump in
41:12and answer Thank you so much . I saw a
41:20question here regarding , let me just see if I
41:24can find it now why I lost the team's most
41:29valuable member . So uh the reason what I've done
41:34there is um I don't they don't lose their valuable
41:37member , they're replaced with another team's valuable number .
41:41And so it's a bit chaotic and they lose the
41:45person that they're used to working with during the process
41:48and they obtained someone new another valuable member from another
41:52team . And then there's an adjustment to that .
41:55And so how is that ? Um emotionally and socially
41:58accepted by the person being transplanted to another team ?
42:03And the team itself , are there any other questions
42:14? So I can actually say one thing at this
42:16point um when I actually read your exercise Anita um
42:23it was interesting because um and this is just a
42:25coincidence if I was present at U . S .
42:28S . B . In person , my aim was
42:31to actually have run a tower exercise for the participants
42:35in the room . But the difference would have been
42:37I would have run the tower exercise build the tower
42:40and uh and then asked them to actually reflect on
42:43the cervical platform at every step . And and that
42:46was what was quite interesting because and I didn't even
42:49know that Anita was actually going to talk about a
42:51tower exercise . Uh so so that was just you
42:54know , an interesting thing , but the idea here
42:57was that when we add these kind of team reflections
43:00, uh we sort of see things move very differently
43:03as opposed to individual reflections . Um and I think
43:06that's also because teams maybe don't discuss as much after
43:11they have done a task , um and I think
43:14you are able to do that at the end of
43:16the of the exercise , but I wonder if if
43:21if we didn't do that , like , you know
43:22what the outcome would be , for example . So
43:24, I wonder if you have some thoughts around that
43:26Anita . So you're saying if you were to have
43:30reflections during the process ? Yeah , I'm not so
43:35sure that would work that well with the way I
43:37have it , I mean , you may be able
43:39to design it differently where that might work , but
43:42the the whole idea of the chaos and the time
43:46management is part of the project , so uh it
43:52makes it difficult for them to move forward , like
43:55having a project , let's say we have a project
43:58that we're working on and we have constant interruptions ,
44:01we have emails and phone calls , we have someone
44:03coming into our office , you know , we have
44:05constant up , that's what it's like in the real
44:07world , and that's what I was trying to convey
44:09to the students and , you know , have them
44:12experience what it's like Working on a project , and
44:15of course this is only a 30 minute time span
44:18, whereas we may be going days or weeks on
44:21a project , but they get the idea and so
44:25, but and then because the observer is documenting all
44:29the information they're reminded about how they really reacted to
44:34certain situations , so they do have that reflective moment
44:38in past tense . Mhm , yep . But I
44:42also like your uh this savvy goat , I really
44:45want to get into this and understand it better ,
44:48and I think that I because I love games and
44:51fun things in the classroom and students really resonate with
44:54it and they love it . So I'm really looking
44:57forward to looking into this much further and seeing how
44:59I can utilize it in my courses . So ,
45:02one of the tests we did with students was especially
45:05the University of Connecticut , because it was a Gamification
45:07course , Gamification for business . And in that course
45:10, we actually asked the students , um without showing
45:14, I mean , we showed savvy goat as a
45:15, as a challenge and say , okay , how
45:16would you gamify this ? And what was interesting is
45:1980% or 90% of all the ideas they came up
45:22with is actually already in the platform , so ,
45:24but but that was actually you know , very ,
45:26very good feedback for us , but they also came
45:28up with additional things that we hadn't thought about and
45:31that was you know like um adding badges and stuff
45:34like that because apparently they really um students really do
45:38like this kind of stuff . So I just saw
45:41a question on the chat that's come up um post
45:44exercise team assessment as a student has been a number
45:47of teams . I can see how intermittent team assessments
45:49could increase accountability from our group members . Yes ,
45:52I do agree ruth that is something we have seen
45:55. Um so one of the things that we found
45:57, especially with savvy goat and other things is that
46:00it prevents some of these , you know , Team
46:02Lagarde's or people who just sort of don't do much
46:06while working in the team because they actually have to
46:10be active . And um one thing that I don't
46:13know if you realize but one thing that's a video
46:15does very well is that and every task that you
46:18do , you have to write down who participated in
46:21the task and who was the leader because it's only
46:23the leader who of that task that can submit the
46:26task . So it's it's a way to really get
46:30more engagement from teams as well . So I love
46:34the app component to it as well . Thank you
46:36so much . Yeah , well I think that's what
46:39we have time for I guess . So I'll leave
46:42it to Andrea Yes , thank you so much for
46:45sharing that . I only wish I could have heard
46:47it better but I'm glad that you all online did
46:50here as well . So thanks to our speakers so
46:52much and thanks to all of you for coming to
46:54use Osby , I think this is the last official
46:56session so round of applause for our final speakers .
47:00Thank you so much . Thank you so much .
47:03Bye . Okay , goodbye .
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