Unit 8: Acceptance and Analysis
Process Journal: Acceptance and Analysis
As we dove into the creative problem solving process, it was challenging and rewarding to go through each step of the acceptance and analysis phase. In particular, I was able to apply the learning from the acceptance phase not only to our group project, but to projects my family members were taking on as well. My husband was a good enough sport to let me take him through the acceptance phase (he said going through the process made him feel physically uncomfortable) as he worked on a career transition, Amazingly, he got immediate results!
Due to my husband’s positive feedback, I turned the steps of the Acceptance phase into a Google Form entitled “Time to start making a difference in the world...” for my fourteen and sixteen-year-old daughters who are starting community service projects, and I will report the results as I take them through the entire process in my subsequent journal entries.
In terms of our group process, we worked well, finding commonality among all members by thinking about our messes prior to our Zoom meeting and using a sticky note program called Miro to visualize the process of narrowing down our problems for a topic selection. It was eye-opening to see how much we call had in common. The overarching themes were human wellness and technology, which we chose as our topic.
As we dove into the analysis, we found that our topic was very robust, with lots of information about it online. We chose to share our resource links to articles through a Slack channel we created for our group.
As we started to synthesize our research, we saw there were areas where technology was greatly benefiting our wellness and others where it was harmful. By doing the morphological grid, we were able to identify gaps in our knowledge, which we need to research further. We were also able to start to identify areas that are lacking in terms of solutions. Since there is so much information available about our topic, further research will need to be done as we begin to find our problem and develop our “How might we statement.” Overall the experience has been very rewarding and I look forward to continuing it as we progress through the course.
