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Felt, leaves and branches
Teaching show case
Aims of the session
• Introduce Ketso
• Mini exercise to experience Ketso
(engaging students in problem
based learning)
• Learn from each other – share
ideas and practice
• Develop ideas for ‘our projects’
• Introduce how Ketso can be used
in teaching and in built
environment and community
planning contexts
Ketso is a hands-on kit for creative groupwork
‘Ketso’ means action in Lesotho, where it was
invented in 1995
Women didn’t speak in mixed gender groups
Ketso was used in Southern Africa to help
communities change this...
…to this: sustainable living
Developed in PhD research at UoM
… working to develop a vision for a
sustainable North Manchester
Local enthusiasm from the plans developed
moved a former landfill site from 30th ….
... to first on the list. The site received £1.7
million of Newlands funding.
Reaction from North Manchester Resident
• “Because a lot of people are like me and they are
not good at speaking if there are more than two or
three people around, but they have things to say.
• This is magnificent at getting people to participate,
and very important”
Ketso has been used in contexts ranging from
research with Tesco (over 200 staff)
… to engaging with stakeholders of all ages
and backgrounds in health related issues
… to community development and engagement
in Jordan, Rwanda, South Africa & Bangladesh
… to teaching and learning at all levels
Won Association of European Schools of
Planning 2011 Excellence in Teaching Prize
Coloured leaves for different questions
(write on the coloured side)
We will introduce each stage, passing
around the new leaf colour and with the bell
You will have about 5 - 10 minutes for each
stage in total (a bit of a speed exercise)
Bell to move to next stage – first ring person
talking has a moment to finish what saying
Outcomes from this workshop
Engaging students in problem based learning
• What works well?
• Challenges and problems
• Solutions to challenges
Engaging students in problem based learning
• What works well? What in what we
already do is effective?
Everyone take a pen and some leaves
Always use the ‘magic pens’ so we can wash
the leaves clean after use!
Put 1 idea per leaf, write so others can read
First take a few moments on your OWN to
develop your ideas…
Engaging students in problem based learning
• What works well? What in what we
already do is effective?
Now unfold the felt
Take it in turns to read out your ideas – one
person reads one idea at a time…
… going around the circle. Place leaves on
the felt as you read them out
Discuss the ideas after they are all on the
felt
Point leaves at branches
Branches provide themes, some blanks
Enhancing the student experience
• What works well? What in what we
already do is effective?
• Table swap – what is important, &
why? Any comments or questions?
Engaging students in problem based learning
• What works well?
• Challenges and problems – think of a
KEY challenge
You can move ideas around
Engaging students in problem based learning
• What works well?
• Challenges and problems
• Solutions to challenges
You can think ‘outside of the box’
Cluster similar ideas
Ketso grid for action plan
Eight takeaways – creative engagement
• Stakeholders have the solutions – you never know
where the creativity will come from
• Everyone has a voice - give everyone a way to
make an input at the same time
• Individual and group time – think then share - give
people time on their own to develop ideas before
sharing
• Building a shared picture – encourage participants
to make connections and patterns from their ideas
Eight takeaways – creative engagement
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Stakeholders have the solutions
Everyone has a voice
Individual and group time
Building a shared picture
Activity based – something to do for each stage
Start with the positive - ask what is going well?
what works?
• End with solutions not problems - give some time
to develop solutions to problems
• Lead into action - remember takeaway messages &
action points, what happens next?
How does Ketso help you do these?
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Stakeholders have the solutions
Everyone has a voice
Individual and group time
Building a shared picture
Activity based
Start with the positive
End with solutions not problems
Lead into action
Eight takeaways – how Ketso helps
• Stakeholders have the solutions - felt is there to capture ideas
• Everyone has a voice – everyone has a pen and leaves
• Individual and group time –giving out the leaves ‘re-sets’ the
process – different stages
• Building a shared picture – you can move the leaves around and
use icons
• Activity-led – leaves, icons – decide what you want to ask and assign
a bit of kit to that stage
• Start with the positive – colours have an underlying metaphor – what
is the soil we have to grow ideas in?
• End with solutions not problems – green shoots from the grey of
the clouds
• Action – use icons and comments cards to note actions!
• Making group meaning from individual ideas – leaves can move,
use branches to give (some) structure
Make productive use of people’s time
Give everyone a voice – commitment
Harness creativity of people all levels
Each bit of the kit helps lead you through
running a workshop
Launched as a company in 2009
Social mission - Transform the way we
communicate, collaborate and learn worldwide
Business model – helping people run good
workshops by selling & renting kits…
…. & providing free open source resources:
workshop plans, slideshows, training videos
Create job opportunities for
disadvantaged people in manufacture
The kits are assembled in a sheltered
workshop in the UK
Customers include:
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Public Sector:
Merseycare NHS
National School of Government
Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Environment Agency
Cumbria County Council, South Lakes District Council
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Voluntary Sector:
The Equality Network
GroundWork
Schumacher Institute
The IONA Community
The Big Life Company
• Private Sector:
• Tesco
• United Utilities
University customers include:
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Cambridge
Durham
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hull Business School
Lancaster
Leeds Metropolitan
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
Portsmouth
Pretoria
Salford
Sheffield
Sussex
Worcester
Student Feedback
Students engage with each other
Ideas being heard
• In past experiences of group work, I have often
taken a backseat in group discussion as other more
outspoken characters tend to hold the discussion...
• I enjoyed Ketso as I felt it gave everyone a higher
sense of equality.
Undergraduate first year student
Students learn from each other
Developing ideas
• One of the things I was amazed at was that we had
so many ideas, as a group we were bouncing ideas
off each other taking one member’s idea and
developing it.
• This made me very optimistic about the future of the
module and strengthened my positive attitude, which
has continued throughout the module.
Undergraduate second year student
See ideas develop
Time management
• I knew we were pushed for time but actually
stopping and reviewing the situation by analysing
what we had to do and by when really made myself
and the group a lot more effective and efficient in
our decisions.
Undergraduate second year student
Supports effective groupwork
• Problems, issues, and solutions arose which
potentially wouldn’t have entered my mind, whilst
experiencing our group connect and energise
each other.
• I have to say, I was impressed.
Undergraduate second year student
Allows you to give feedback
Allows peers to give feedback
• One area of the workshop I found extremely
beneficial was moving around to view the other
groups’ emerging Ketsos.
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• It provided independent observations with regard to
our Ketso maps, providing comments.
• Viewing the development of others’ ideas
enabled me to change my perceptions.
Postgraduate student
International students can engage
• The Ketso is particularly useful for me to
communicate with members. My English level is
low… It makes me difficult to actively participate
group projects.
• Last semester I could not insist my opinion…
• However, with the great tool covering many
different kinds of group meetings I was able to
clearly suggest my thought on a meeting.
Used at many different stages – expectations,
project planning, review & revision
Embedded inclusive education
Supports students with dyslexia
• “ I like the fact it is so visual, you can really see
your ideas and the links between them and other
people’s ideas…
• I like the way you can move the ideas around, it
makes it practical and is more inviting than a list.”
International students can engage
• The Ketso is particularly useful for me to
communicate with members. My English level is
low… It makes me difficult to actively participate
group projects.
• Last semester I could not insist my opinion…
• However, with the great tool covering many
different kinds of group meetings I was able to
clearly suggest my thought on a meeting.
Widening participation and access
Skills development
(e.g. enterprise education - Durham, Cambridge,
Birmingham, Sussex, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Surrey, Manchester)
Data gathering – e.g. focus groups
Ideas can be captured and typed up
…for later analysis.
Group No (All)
Group No (All)
Enterprising Midlands - Types of Ideas Developed
Healthy London Types of Ideas
Count of Meaning
Count of Meaning
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180
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100
140
80
Meaning
Existing assets
60
120
Meaning
Existing assets
100
Future possibilities
Future possibilities
Problems
Problems
80
Goals
Goals
40
(blank)
60
40
20
20
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0
Total
Total
Drop Category Fields Here
Drop Category Fields Here
Group No (All)
Group No (All)
A Sustainable Port in Portsmouth - Ideas by Branch Type
Sustainable Port - Types of Ideas
Count of Theme on Branch
Count of Meaning
140
250
120
200
100
Meaning
150
Meaning
80
Goals
Existing assets
Future possibilities
Problems
Future possibilities
60
Problems
100
Goals
50
Existing assets
40
20
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Activities
Ecology
Economics
Environment
Environment (built)
Total
Drop Category Fields Here
Theme on Branch
Landscapes
Society
Stakeholder
Engagement
Public engagement with research
BASICS of planning a workshop – what do you
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BASICS of planning a workshop
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Skippables, squashables and supplements
BASICS
• Beginnings
• Activities
Feedback during a conference from delegates
BASICS
• Beginnings
• Activities
• Sequencing
BASICS
• Beginnings
• Activities
• Sequencing
Enhancing the student experience
Total Ideas by colour
63
Opportunities
100
Challenges
121
Future possibilities
128
What works well
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BASICS
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Creative Futures - Moston Vale
Existing Assets ordered by E.A.S.E.L.
57
Number of Ideas
60
Economics
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40
Activities
37
29
30
Social Capital
20
15
9
10
Elements and
Settlements
Landscapes
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Category of E.A.S.E.L.
Big Society and the Environment
Number of Ideas by Branch
Economics
Social
Activities
Blank
Barriers
Landscape and Ecology
Opportunities
Solutions
Environment (built)
Affects All
Environment
Political
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100
150
200
Big Society and the Environment
Total Ideas by colour
180
Opportunities
241
Barriers
190
Solutions
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100
150
200
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300
Surprising emergent themes
Number of Ideas by Cross-Cutting Theme
Finance
Sustainability and integration
Inequality and power
Support and facilitation
Capacity building
Partnerships and sharing
Motivation
Levels of scale
Democracy
Perceptions
Barriers
Opportunities
Solutions
Accountability and gaps
Learning from each other
Time
Bureaucracy
Outdoor activities
Creativity and design
Use of natural resources
Volunteering opportunities
New business models
Business
Assets and ownership
Planning system
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Emergent themes – researchers search for
themes from ideas
Speed exercise using colours to ask different
questions only, some clustering
Emergent themes
Methods@Manchester Fair - Your Research
Methodology skills
Emergent themes
Professional development
Networking
What do you hope to get from
research training?
What inspired you do to your
research?
Personal motivation and pressures
Impact
Inspiration
Develop knowledge
Real world problems
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100
Number of ideas
150
Student Feedback – Manchester Methods Fair
Student Feedback
Feedback on Fair
Research Talks
Emergent Theme
Workshops
Make Contacts and Networking
Overall
Best aspects of
the fair
What could be
improved
Ketso
Logistics and the Space
Posters
Food
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10 15 20 25 30 35
Number of ideas
Emergent themes around expectations
What do you hope to get from the fair?
Make Contacts and Networking
Emergent theme
General Knowledge Improvement
Ideas and Inspiration
Research Perspective
What do you
hope to get from
the fair?
Specific Research Skills Attainment
Later Stage Research Concerns
Ketso
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Number of ideas
80
Iterative process – first pass at themes for
discussion in EU funded research meeting
42 ideas – just those with ticks by them (done during the workshop)
Iterative process – all ideas shown against the
research themes EU FP7 SMARTest research
Number of Ideas by Branch
Promotion and
Acceptance
Implementation
and Maintenance
Strengths
Opportunities
Problems and Challenges
Research and
Development
Blank
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159 ideas – type up finished later
Iterative process – all ideas shown against the
workpackage teams (one team per felt)
Number of Ideas by Team
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Team
Number
Strengths
Opportunities
1
Problems and Challenges
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Health and wellbeing example
Health and wellbeing example
Health and wellbeing example
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