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Demystifying Jargon: How Codesign can help everyone to speak the same language
Demystifying Jargon: How Codesign can help everyone to speak the same language

Jargon is a natural part of any field or area of expertise. At its best, jargon helps people within a group understand each other and communicate more effectively. At its worst, jargon is used as a tool to identify and exclude people outside the group

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Demystifying Jargon: How Codesign can help everyone to speak the same language
Demystifying Jargon: How Codesign can help everyone to speak the same language

Jargon is a natural part of any field or area of expertise. At its best, jargon helps people within a group understand each other and communicate more effectively. At its worst, jargon is used as a tool to identify and exclude people outside the group

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3 Examples of Problems of Practice in Education and How Codesign Can Help Address Them
3 Examples of Problems of Practice in Education and How Codesign Can Help Address Them

Improving instructional practices is essential for helping students learn the subject matter effectively, allowing them to improve outcomes by using the skills they’re learning.

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Toolkits are comprehensive workshops that can be used within a school to guide internal innovation practices or with a group of edtech developers, researchers, and educators.

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Engage Toolkit

Understand the reasons you are working together, envision what a partnership will look like, define a shared meaning, and put it all in writing.

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Cultivate Toolkit
Cultivate Toolkit

Assemble your group of codesigners and assess who you are as individuals, what strengths you have as a group, and what obstacles you may face.

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3 Examples of Problems of Practice in Education and How Codesign Can Help Address Them
3 Examples of Problems of Practice in Education and How Codesign Can Help Address Them

Improving instructional practices is essential for helping students learn the subject matter effectively, allowing them to improve outcomes by using the skills they’re learning.

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What are community assets? Here’s how to map them

The first step in a successful codesign research project is to decide who will form the research team and identify other stakeholders. Part of this process involves mapping community assets.

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Cultivate Toolkit
Cultivate Toolkit

Assemble your group of codesigners and assess who you are as individuals, what strengths you have as a group, and what obstacles you may face.

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Codesigning Problem Statements for School Leaders
Codesigning Problem Statements for School Leaders

Comprehensive guide to codesigning a problem statement with those most impacted.

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Power Analysis
Power Analysis

Through the process of power analysis we can make power structures visible and upend them, so that all participants are true codesigners, acting as equals in the research process.

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Pain Points
Pain Points

Each group holds different perspectives related to each problem, concern, or need named. These differing perspectives will help the group identify new dilemmas and opportunities with greater understanding and depth.

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Demystifying Jargon: How Codesign can help everyone to speak the same language
Demystifying Jargon: How Codesign can help everyone to speak the same language

Jargon is a natural part of any field or area of expertise. At its best, jargon helps people within a group understand each other and communicate more effectively. At its worst, jargon is used as a tool to identify and exclude people outside the group

Read more →
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Engage Toolkit

Understand the reasons you are working together, envision what a partnership will look like, define a shared meaning, and put it all in writing.

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Value Mapping
Value Mapping

A group’s values are often unspoken, but through value mapping you can think through and articulate the most important beliefs that will guide the research process.

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5 Types of Codesign Studies and When to Use Them

Within Codesign, we segment research into five different types of studies. Each one with its own specific timelines, requirements, and research questions.

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How to Prepare for Semi-Structured Interviews

Semi-structured interviews are a formal way to collect qualitative data that try to mimic natural conversation. Instead of a strict list of questions that interviewer plows through, a semi-structured interview creates space for inquiry and curiosity.

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Developing Logic Models

A logic model presents a picture of how your initiative is supposed to work. It explains why your strategy is a good solution to the problem at hand.

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Research Resources

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12 Lessons That Changed The Way We Do Research

Twelve lessons about Codesign Research that can help reduce attrition, incorporate educator voice, and create actionable results.

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Turning Recommendations into Action

An Action Plan is used to distill a very long report into a digestible, 2-4 page document that serves as a simple checklist for edtech developers to reference.

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Feasibility Study Deliverable
Feasibility Study Deliverable

An example of a deliverable designed for an edtech company aimed at providing them feedback from educators and students.

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Feasibility Study Deliverable
Feasibility Study Deliverable

An example of a deliverable designed for an edtech company aimed at providing them feedback from educators and students.

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