{"id":2913,"date":"2015-04-04T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T03:40:13","slug":"exercise-turn-it-inside-out-or-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"Exercise: Turn It Inside Out (or Upside Down)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features\u00a0that makes Stanford unique is its\u00a0upside down hierarchy. Think of it as a pyramid standing on its tip.\u00a0At Stanford, students are at the top (Stanford is defined by its students) followed by faculty then staff and administrators. Stanford&#8217;s framework truly nurtures intrinsic motivation by empowering individuals with personal opportunities for mastery, autonomy and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>So along the same lines, let&#8217;s devise an exercise by reversing\/turning inside out\/rearranging common frameworks. Through this exercise, we can pursue the &#8220;crazy&#8221; end of the brainstorming spectrum and identify opportunities for competitive advantage. Our aim is to strengthen how youth\u00a0critically question a common framework before we consider accepting it.<\/p>\n<p>In the prototype for this exercise, students will study a restaurant or cafeteria and make a list\u00a0of\u00a0how it functions (perhaps using one of the IDEO Method Cards). [One of the YCISL workshop projects was on a school cafeteria which operated quite differently from what I have seen myself &#8211; from a ticket machine]. Then the students will try imagineering those functions with a reversed view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features\u00a0that makes Stanford unique is its\u00a0upside down hierarchy. Think of it as a pyramid standing on its tip.\u00a0At Stanford, students are at the top (Stanford is defined by its students) followed by faculty then staff and administrators. Stanford&#8217;s framework truly nurtures intrinsic motivation by empowering individuals with personal opportunities for mastery, autonomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}