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An Invitation to Join #ChangeTheNow
In 2018 Georgian College, Canada’s first Ashoka Changemaker College, wanted to know if they could mobilize students from kindergarten to Post Secondary into a movement, effectively building a region of Changemakers. It was from here that #ChangeTheNow began.
Do Good to Do Well
#ChangeTheNow was created on the beliefs that small acts can lead to big change and collaborations can turn into largescale movements. We believe together students’, educators’ and communities’ ideas can spark systems shifts that make will make our communities greener, healthier, safer, stronger and more inclusive!
Will you join us in creating the positive change and contribute to 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals?
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Anonymous published Complete Your "HCDT Stage: Empathize" Reflection in Quality Education Challenge - SDG #4, Fall 2022 2022-09-01 09:53:07 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_empathize_reflection_sdg4aug2022
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Anonymous published Complete your Changemaker in Residency Week Reflection in Quality Education Challenge - SDG #4, Fall 2022 2022-09-01 09:48:41 -0700 complete_your_changemaker_in_residency_week_reflection_sdg4aug2022
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Anonymous published Create Your Team Canvas in Quality Education Challenge - SDG #4, Fall 2022 2022-09-01 09:43:01 -0700 create_your_team_canvas_sdg4aug2022
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Anonymous published Complete Your Mobius Strip Reflection in Quality Education Challenge - SDG #4, Fall 2022 2022-09-01 09:31:34 -0700 complete_your_mobius_strip_reflection_sdg4aug2022
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 09:16:47 -0700 complete_your_me_we_reflection_58
🤔 Reflection question
After completing CTN, what new awareness do you have for yourself (ME) and your community (WE) and what is one action you might take to continue to explore it?
Nikhil's Answer
CTN was a new and interesting experience. It helped me to understand that even a small effort can help in bringing big changes in society. It helped me to understand the importance of every stakeholder in a system. I learned about new and innovative ways to address a social problem and generate ideas to remove that issue.
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 09:12:32 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_pitch_reflection_58
🤔 Reflection question
What did you learn about publicly sharing your ideas that you will carry with you in your future of work?
Nikhil's Answer
Publicly sharing our ideas helps in building self-confidence and self-esteem. It helps us in understanding different ideas and opinions, which ultimately helps in improving the understanding of the subject matter.
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 09:08:33 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_prototype_test_reflection_58
🤔 Reflection question
How might the prototype & test stage help you with overcoming a fear of failure or challenging your assumptions about what is ‘right’?
Nikhil's Answer
prototyping and testing the idea helps us in understanding the risks associated with the idea and the ways in which the idea can be improved further to meet the stakeholders' expectations and needs. We learned that an idea cannot be perfect without prototyping and testing it again and again to remove imperfections. It helped us to overcome the fear of failure by teaching us to continue working on a task until the required result is attained.
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:54:22 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_ideate_reflection_58
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How might ideation help you develop your active listening skills to brainstorm and reflect on ideas effectively with your team?
Nikhil's Answer
The ideate stage was a little confusing at the beginning, but it provided us with a fresh perspective to look at the issue and brainstorm and listen to the team's ideas. Listening to other ideas helps us to broaden our perspective and helps us to think in a different way.
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:50:24 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_define_reflection_58
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How might you explain the value of you having a systems-thinking mindset when attempting to define and understand a complex problem?
Nikhil's Answer
The systems thinking mindset helps us to understand the different parts of a particular problem. It helps us to solve the problem as well as other issues that might arise due to that problem or its solution. The iceberg model helped us to understand the root causes of the problem and the connected issues.
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:46:39 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_empathize_reflection_58
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After learning about how to empathize with the people affected by your SDG’s social issue, how you might apply empathy to working with the members on your CTN Innovation Team?
Nikhil's Answer
The empathy map canvas helped us to understand how important is it to empathize with the stakeholders who are being affected by the project. It allowed us to understand the issue properly and find solutions for it. While working on the innovation team, we can apply this knowledge to empathize with the team members and improve team performance.
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Nikhil Sharma posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:39:05 -0700 complete_your_changemaker_in_residency_week_reflection_58
🤔 Reflection question
What session inspired you the most during Changemaker in Residency Week, and why?
Nikhil's Answer
We did not have any changemaker in residency week sessions in our term.
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Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-21 17:41:12 -0700 complete_your_me_we_reflection_55
🤔 Reflection question
After completing CTN, what new awareness do you have for yourself (ME) and your community (WE) and what is one action you might take to continue to explore it?
Meera's Answer
I could understand the saying- "Even small footsteps create huge Changes around us". I am able to understand from these that even small REALIZATIONS create big TRANSFORMATIONS and even small INITIATIVES create big INNOVATIONS around us.
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-18 17:51:36 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_prototype_test_reflection_54
🤔 Reflection question
How might the prototype & test stage help you with overcoming a fear of failure or challenging your assumptions about what is ‘right’?
Girish's Answer
Prototyping is the key part of the design thinking process and also offers quick and low-risk inputs from the users. The prototype is an early sample or model of a product built to test a concept or process.
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Navnitakumari Vaidya posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-18 15:04:31 -0700 complete_your_changemaker_in_residency_week_reflection_56
🤔 Reflection question
What session inspired you the most during Changemaker in Residency Week, and why?
Navnitakumari's Answer
We had no sessions to attend during Changemaking and Residency Week.
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Navnitakumari Vaidya posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-18 15:02:40 -0700 complete_your_me_we_reflection_56
🤔 Reflection question
After completing CTN, what new awareness do you have for yourself (ME) and your community (WE) and what is one action you might take to continue to explore it?
Navnitakumari's Answer
CTN has a very helpful and new experience for us, and it helps to increase our knowledge. In CTN they give many templates that we use to solve a community problem, such as root causes, empathize, ideate, prototype, and Pecha Kucha, this will us to identify stakeholder and their problem, and how we define them their problem and solve their problems. Before working on this modal we are very confused and when we started working on it became very interesting.
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Priya Sood posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-18 14:56:39 -0700 complete_your_changemaker_in_residency_week_reflection_51
🤔 Reflection question
What session inspired you the most during Changemaker in Residency Week, and why?
Priya's Answer
We did not have any sessions to attend in Changemaking and residency week.
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Navnitakumari Vaidya posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-18 14:50:55 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_pitch_reflection_56
🤔 Reflection question
What did you learn about publicly sharing your ideas that you will carry with you in your future of work?
Navnitakumari's Answer
Sometimes it’s very difficult to understand some ideas. But, in my view, if present properly and effectively everyone can understand our thoughts. So, if we use pechkucha we can easily define our idea in the community, and also it is making the use of pitchers and create a perfect story so, that every age group of people can easily understand easily. Moreover, everyone can give their feedback and recommendation through this and this is beneficial for the make changes in the future.