Episode Details

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Ph.D., is a scientist turned designer who has created and facilitated a wide range of learning experiences in design, creativity, and innovation at the Stanford d.school and beyond. Her creative methods include the use of emerging technologies to help people grow as self-directed, action-oriented, reflective, and responsible shapers of the future. She co-directs the University Innovation Fellows Program and is an adjunct professor at the Stanford School.

Leticia has a PhD in developmental biology from Stanford University and is a former member of the Research in Education & Design Lab.

Show Highlights

• Tips to avoid traumatic teaching where students learn in spite of what we do and create assignments ensure agency.

• Leveraging reflection is a Ruckus Maker super power to gain more depth.

• Experiment 4: to focus on who you really are when you're out there in the world.

• Fixed identities get in the way of learning. Explore the multiple identities or elements of identities out there.

• Fascinating questions to elevate the answers as the thing that is valued.

• The value of reflecting forward and technology infused with teaching and learning connection.

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd order consequences to the work you do.

"Best to start small and sneaky. Ruckus Makers are change makers. It's hard. Instead of thinking when I have resources and when I have x, y, and z, I'll be able to do ABC, what do you have right now? How can you do something small? Actually, intentionally small, that is going to maximize your learning, allow you to learn something and challenge your assumptions. Going back full circle to the beginning of my story as a teacher, we have more levers to play and more control about things that we can experiment, that we think, just thinking about what is my sphere of influence and what can I do?"

-Leticia Britos Cavagnaro

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