The Dayton Practice is a framework that adapted agile practices to the classroom. It was developed by a team of teachers at Dayton working with industry agilists and was developed into Designed inGenuity (DiG so that it could be shared with educators around the world.
This framework uses short, tight Learning Cycles that provide a clear purpose for the learning.
This learning model challenges students to find connections between two diverse topics, synthesize meaning from those connections, and then communicate that new understanding to others, developing the capacity for Creative Thinking
To make the learning personally meaningful, students are encouraged to develop the connections between these concepts and their own interests, following their own curiosity.
While students are encouraged to follow their interests, they are also challenged to share their learning in gatherings with other students as they prepare for a final demo day where they tell their learning with the help of a creative artifact that they have made.
Through these experiences, trusted learning communities are built, ones that continue to amaze as they unleash the creative genius within each student – and in each teacher.
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