Nurturing Ideas Into Actions

Okay.. so it's time I wrote down the "good" ideas before they vanish into thin air. The funny thing is that these ideas come to your mind when you are the least prepared to attend to them e.g. one day before your final exams or when you've just woken up from a "perfect" sleep and have no clue what time or day it is !! (maybe Murphy's law..).

With each idea, I will try to break them into sub-components that seem more achievable. The final goal, as the title suggests, is to put them into action.. try them out. And I want everyone to participate and own these ideas.

IMPORTANT: If you don't have any ideas i.e. NO-IDEA about anything, you are probably the best person here because you will get lots of different ideas to pick from :)

So here goes:-

1. I want to make a public space that allows participants to discuss their ideas in a collaborative and active way. These ideas SHOULD be about doing good to others and can include lots of stuff. I will begin with some and leave the field open for more -
- something that you saw today that want to rectify
- some good act that you saw today that you want to emulate
- some problem you faced today and you have an idea about how to avoid that
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example:
-> I saw a person providing food to lots of homeless people in my neighborhood. I want to do something similar...

Going back to the public space, here's how it "might" work:
a. People pool in ideas without being afraid of being criticized
b. Discuss ways of putting those ideas into actions
b. Everybody sees those ideas and suggestions and comment
c. The idea draws other people (co-located or distantly located) to participate in executing that idea
d. A plan evolves on how to get it done.
e. It gets done!
Simple? Not really.
What's the motivation? Why would people participate? -> (Answer) The group consists of people who WANT to do good. They wouldn't be here if they did not. So they are pre-motivated :)

[[ I don't have anything more to add to that right now and I have NO-IDEA how this will get done ]]

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2. Bringing textbooks alive (the name says it all.... make learning fun and engaging for children) - But how?



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3. Learning in an immersive environment

a. hmm... this might make learning fun and engaging... seems like a direction
b. using experience prototyping for creating immersive learning environment
b1. what constitutes an immersive feeling/experience?


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4. The next three ideas came to me as part of the project for the Happy-Healthy-Home class:
(contents removed... to be included after some refinements)