Writing Homework Help

Part 1: WRITE 100 WORDS ON THIS WEEK’S READING AND/OR MEDIA EVENT

Write 100 words to tell our class.

What did I learn this quarter in this class?

Part 2: Write at least 50 words per response to each fellow student for 100 words total.

I will submit later.

Part 3: Analytic Response to Readings, Media, and Social Entrepreneurship Exemplars for the QUARTER

500 words minimum including examples (quote optional).

Prompt: Over this quarter what have you learned about how social entrepreneurs use Design Thinking to improve society? What new value do you see to client and community centered innovation? What does this teach you about how solutions to social problems can be interpreted very differently taking a design thinking approach? Consider any terms and ideas you have learned so far this quarter (examples: theory of change, user-centered social sectors, and the power of feedback). What did you find inspiring about the Social Entrepreneurs of the QUARTER—what did they teach you about how solutions to social problems can be generated using an inductive, culturally appropriate, client-centered approach using design thinking? How will you use a social entrepreneurial approach to problem solving in the future? 

Part 4: Watch (1) two of the 12 videos from the list below AND (2) read one very short description of  a new company  (“OnePointOne”) engaged in indoor global vertical urban farming to feed the 1.1 Billion people who began this millennium hungry.

Reading: https://www.onepointone.com

Medias: IrdlJSwQIO4 (Links to an external site.)

Video #1:  School “Cultivate Project” to reduce potentially wasted food while increasing food access for hungry students. 2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYOmjQO_UMw (Links to an external site.)

Video #2:   American Dust Bowl of 1930.  1.5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGuW-Mc48k (Links to an external site.)Video #3: Esoko: market connections. 2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwOYd9dY5ho&feature=youtu.be (Links to an external site.)

Video #4:  Papua New Guinea (PNG).  4 minutes 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGjOicZfGb4 (Links to an external site.)Video #5:   Esoko with SHFs Ghana.  Inclusion of women in agricultural services. 2.5 minutes 

Enset Processing in Ethiopia – The tree against Famine (Links to an external site.)

Video #6: Enset Processing.  3 minutes

Video # 7. Life Below Water: The Arrival of a New Species—- Plastic.  2 minutes

https://vimeo.com/444787885 (Links to an external site.)

Video #8. Urban Indoor Vertical Farming. Sam Bertram ’16, M.S. ’18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFjsRwLTxr0 (Links to an external site.)

Video #9: Urban Indoor Vertical Farming. Interview with Samuel Bertram, CEO & Founder of OnePointOne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLxGdSWhvOA (Links to an external site.)

Video #10:  ”  Farming with Compost in Africa”. 8 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0HMl3qWHA (Links to an external site.)

Video #11:  “Mulching in Tanzania”. 6 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz611QsiD4g (Links to an external site.)

Video #12:  Cutting up the corm of enset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkxrcYEeYoY (Links to an external site.)

Video #13:  Hello Tractor  3 minutes.

https://hellotractor.com/about-us/

In one or two meaningful paragraphs, what are the main messages you take away from (1) each of your two selected YouTube videos and (2)  from the short reading and how do they relate to the goal of our course, “Feeding the World?
Peer 1:

Before taking this class, I didn’t know much about Design Thinking and didn’t understand the intricacies and nuances of the social entrepreneurship method. However, over this past quarter, I learned what Design Thinking is, and I learned about how much effort and practice Design Thinking requires, combining different skillsets and methods to create useful products or services. I found the digital format of this course to be helpful, allowing me to adjust my workload to do more work for this class when I had fewer things to do in other classes, and vice versa. In doing so, I was able to give the material my full attention and make sure I truly understood everything.

Peer 2:

This quarter I learned about how social entrepreneurship can be a very powerful tool to solve societal problems. By using Design Thinking practices, social entrepreneurs learn to place their users at the center of their solution. They iterate upon the feedback they receive and make data-driven decisions about how to proceed with their social entrepreneurship venture. It inspires me that anyone can use Design Thinking to be a change-maker. As Design Thinking focuses on creating the most value for the end user, user desirability is balanced with feasibility and viability to create a successful innovation that can have lasting impact. Since this user-centric process is driven by empathy and passion, entrepreneurs’ solutions can have social value and a great degree of social impact.