The design sprint itself was a prototype. Check out the slides or read below to learn more.
Community of Practice Slides-compressed.pdf
We hypothesized that cross-stakeholder collaboration would be key to making edtech design more equitable. Too often, folks in edtech are siloed into roles — designers, educators, students, researchers, funders — and don’t have opportunities to connect, share perspectives, and build common language. Great ideas aren’t shared. Folks understandably burn out. Designers can’t build equitably for students they never see. Folks of color building products for their own communities deserve access to venture funding to launch their ideas. Researchers’ work is less impactful if no one reads or understands it. Educators are the ones who actually implement edtech, but too often don’t have a chance to share their needs and realities.
What might happen, we wondered, if we prototyped a community of practice by bringing together folks from different areas and asking them to collaborate on some of the biggest edtech equity challenges. Here’s what happened:
https://vimeo.com/739799048/9709a24079
As you can see from the video, folks were inspired. They came up with new ideas. And some of them have gone on to launch new projects with each other without our involvement — a sign of the success of the community of practice proof of concept.
We hope to sustain and grow this community of practice over the next couple of years with renewed support, and for the community to guide the additional work we are planning.
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