Yellow Basho-Week 2_Problem scenario
The Sprint’s problem scenario:
“I want to openly collaborate with my peers so that we can learn together. But, I don’t know where to start. How might I create a way of working with my peers that will enable the open pooling and sharing of our skills?”
About the problem, I suppose that I really have the experience to solve it. Our yellow basho just finished the workshop which was called MAKE A GOLD this week. It’s more of a game than a classroom task. At the beginning, Teacher Jack asked as sat in group by moving the desks and chairs. It is a good way of collaborating with peers, because if you want to have a discussion you need to create a space for all the participants can gather together first, no matter offline or online.
Then he told us the theory of the workshop, to think what was Gold for everyone. Jack gave us some ideas about how to start with the abstract proposition:
- What is your gold?
- What does it look like?
- What does it smell like?
- What does the gold feel like?
- What is the taste of the gold?
- Where is gold?
- What is the opposite of gold?
- What is gold for other people?
- How would you made your gold?
After that, he asked all the Basho to start our discussion, and what we need to do is writing down the directions and recipes of our Basho’s gold. Our gold was good environment.
Now let’s get back to the beginning problem: how might we create a way of working with our peers that will enable the open pooling and sharing our skills?
As we learnt at the first class, there are some modes in learn. I think the way we took in week1 and week2 is P2P, which means Peers to Peers. In a P2P network, the “peers” are computer systems which are connected to each other via the Internet. Files can be shared directly between systems on the network without the need of a central server. In other words, each computer on a P2P network becomes a file server as well as a client.
It’s maybe hard for most of people to break the awkward silence in a Basho, but we have to. Breaking the silence doesn’t mean to be a leader of the meeting or call on everyone to obey orders. It’s more like to be a moderator of the workshop. For me, it’s the key to bring our Basho to open pooling and sharing skills each other.
At that silence moment, I advised that everyone can just write down what is gold for each of us, then show and state the point with the Basho. If your group find a little entrance to break the awkward environment, the “entrance” must can be useful. After my advice, others in our group started to share their ideas and try to collaborate.
That’s the way I think we might create to stimulate our partners in our group to be more active and conversable. This approach don’t ask for any special skills but only need to speak first. I used to be a shy girl, but the experience of “be the first” helped me build my confidence and logic again and again, which could also help me work better in any Basho.
Updates:
What is missing here is your critical engagement with the learning module materials that accompany the first two P2P workshops. For example, Make Gold is really ‘about’ how we create and follow instructions. It is important to reflect on this since the key issue of implicit Vs explicit knowledge is something you need to address practically in your own Toolkit.
Your comment made me think about “make a gold” and the deeper meaning about that, I lost the focus of the key about how we created and followed instructions. We all live in a world with diverse rules and logics. Some of us are the organizers of these, and they are just like our Basho, we created and revised our processes of making gold. What they do is creating the bigger and wider logic for different sectors, different industries, and different people.
We actually learnt something from Make A Gold, as you said, we fount out how can we create a completely “recipe” of the things what we wanted to build. First step is just like what we engaged last week – create our own Toolkits. We should just collect almost all the sources which come to mind, and then start the next step: To figure out the order or the scale, and so on.
Good post. You give some insight into Make Gold. It’s good to read what informed your Basho’s thinking here as well as how you relate this back to the Problem Statement. What is missing here is your critical engagement with the learning module materials that accompany the first two P2P workshops. For example, Make Gold is really ‘about’ how we create and follow instructions. It is important to reflect on this since the key issue of implicit Vs explicit knowledge is something you need to address practically in your own Toolkit.
Thank you for your reading professor!
After reading your comments, I carefully reviewed my article. I found that I really ignored the deeper content when I wrote it. Now I have updated the content of this article according to your suggestions and in combination with our discussion and understanding of the meaning of toolkits under the P2P discussion mode. I hope it can be approved by you, and I hope it does not disturb you~
Hi Jia, yes, I think that’s something you could add later. Week 5 is a good time for that, you have all of that week to polish and add to what you have posted in your Blogs over Weeks 1-4
We created and modified our gold manufacturing processes. What they have done is create a larger, broader logic for different sectors, different industries and different people.
From make gold Creating a complete recipe, as we did last week to create our own toolkit, requires this clear step
From this make gold session not only did we learn the collaborative nature of the group, but we also got a very clear direction for the subsequent sessions on both the logical thinking and the steps of creation.
Your post answers the problem scenario critically. And it clearly recorded our Basho’s in class activity.
Good environment is the gold, indeed. But i do think we could be more abstract with this, that is, despite the good environment, the gold here could mean something more, more like a spiritual thing.