Challenge

My challenge is to offer an innovative way for kindergarten children (grades 1-5) in a particular  school to be encouraged to read more literary books. Children have a need, which is to  understand and be more interested in literature books. My idea is to create a small experiment  group at a school library site to test a form of hybrid teaching using literature. Children usually  prefer to play games on mobile phones and tablets rather than reading books, both physical  and digital. The idea would be to make technology available along with literary education, so  that would be a challenge for children and would do something fun and learning at the same  time.

Selection

For this I selected the Learning Launch tool as it allows to conduct a small group experiment to  test ideas. As well as allowing us to list the data that work and that do not work, with the  collaborative help of various actors, in which case would be teachers of various classes of the  school. The experiments this tool allows are important because they are fast and cheap,  allowing you to test whether the idea works or not. This tool enables engagement among  clients, which in this case would be children, along with their teachers. Video  https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking- innovation/lecture/F04r6/learning-launch-tool

Application

I applied the Learning Launch tool. First I created my hypothesis, which is to do hybrid teaching  of literature, in a school library for kindergarten students (1st to 5th grade). I verified and  argued with a group of teachers that several students have “key” problems, which are of  interest in literature, reading and understanding the stories. Several students also answered  that they do not like storybooks. I found that my idea meets this need of students and more  interestingly than other ideas, because hybrid teaching in literature will make children  interested in reading, collaborating, being autonomous and learning while having fun and  discovering their creativity. The Learning Launch tool was effective because it allowed me to  create an experiment group, quickly and practically without cost, to test my hypothesis and  also with the support of employees with qualitative and quantitative data.

Insight

Using the Learning Launch tool I was able to apply my hypothesis to the group of children and  get their answer, validating the experiment, because they were receptive to the new idea of  learning, participatory and collaborative. In fact, the data from the experiment were better than  imagined in the hypothesis. Four groups (station rotation) were set up in the library, where each  group had a particular task to accomplish at a given time and then moved to another group. For  example, storytelling by the teacher, acting drama by students, conducting online puzzles, using

the Khan Academy platform by students. The best of the tool was the ability to test an idea  quickly and without cost, knowing the need of the public and be able to obtain data that confirm  the facts. As well as I discovered What Wow and What Works.

Approach

What I could do differently or test new tool would be to use the historytelling tool. Because it  is fun, creates an emotional connection with the target audience, children, so they would find  it interesting to participate in the ideas. In historytelling, there would be a "cause" for  elaboration, inspiring questions and moments of reflection would be created, creating a  tension of ideas. Using historytelling for dissemination and design thinking for literature is also  an excellent idea as it blends the stories, ideas, drawings, colors. And possibility of creating  historytelling with animations and multimedia. Using technology for the reality of 21st century  children.

