Challenge 

 I ’ve previously followed a training in design thinking where I was intended to carry out a project applying   its principles and tools . In this context , I worked to find a solution to better integrate children into   elementary schools . I chose this subject as I have relatives working in schools who are able to share their   experiences with me . I wanted to focus on bullying as it ’s a problem that hinders the correct evolution   and learning of children suffering it . This may arises because when children are perceived as being   “ different ” ( e.g. they have disabilities , they are part of a minority group , etc . ) . After following the different   steps of design thinking I was able to identify a concept that would potentially help improving the   integration of children thanks to a reduction of the bullying suffered . The concept I propose intends to   solve one problem that emerged during the problem definition phase : there ’s poor monitoring and   following up of children due to a lack of effective and timely communication among the different   stakeholders concerned by this issue ( parents , peers , teaching staff and other school staff ) . 

 Selection 

 The tool I select is the “ Learning launch ” . I chose this tool because at this stage it is recommended to go   to the field with a fast and cheap prototype in order to test our assumptions and most importantly : learn .   The most important aspect is to “ fail fast and at low cost ” in order to acquire knowledge which will help   us decide if we continue exploring the concept or if we should pivot ( cf . “ Learning Launch Tool ” by   Ali Martinez on week 4 ) . That ’s why it ’s called “ learning launch ” because we are not trying to   sell our solution but to learn , hence we should n’t consider that we failed as long as we learned something . 

 Application 

 The concept to test will be a smartphone application used to record any bullying event into a database   shared with all the teaching staff . As I mentioned previously , this concept intends to improve the share of   information among the school staff . In some cases , the teacher of the next grade ( e.g. 4th grade ) is not   aware of the history of a student because of lack of communication with previous year teacher ( 3rd grade ) . 

 First of all , we should define the assumptions that we want to test and in this case ( in order to keep the   document short and simple ) , we will test if teachers will find it easy and not too much time consuming   the action of entering a new record . Therefore , the experiment is as follows : 

 During 4 weeks , all the teachers in a pilot elementary school will use an app that asks 4 questions to record   any bullying event : “ When did it happen ? ( select from a calendar having today ’s date as default ) ” ; “ What ’s   the name ( Student ID ) of the child who suffered bullying ? ( dropdown searchable list ) ” ; “ What are the   names ( Student ID ) of the children who bullied their peer ? ( dropdown searchable list ) ” ; “ Push the button   to record a short message describing the event ( it ’ll be post - processed to be stored in text format thanks   to Google API “ Speech - to - text ” as it ’s an algorithm ready to use ) ” . 

 Every time they record an event into the database , the time spent doing so is recorded . They will also be   interviewed after the test phase to have their feedback and better understand how they felt during the   experiment . 

 Insight 

 It has been found that teachers are willing to engage in recording any bullying event that happen as it   does n’t take too much time to do it ( 4 minutes on average ) ; the basic information is introduced quickly 

 and most of the time is spent in recording the vocal message with the context of the situation ; they like   it ’s simple ( 4 questions ) and the option to record their vocal message ; it ’s important to engage as many   teachers ( and other school staff ) as we can because network externalities have a high impact to keep   them engaged . This means that if for example one teacher does n’t like using the app but on average word   of mouth is positive , the community pressure will make him adopt and start using it . All of these insights   confirm the assumption that teachers find easy and not too much time consuming the action of entering   a new record . 

 The insights generated affected my thinking about the challenge in that even if the final objective is to   better integrate children in schools thanks to bullying mitigation , it will be possible only with a strong   collaboration and engagement of school staff . As I mentioned in the analysis , the ability to record new   entries in the database in a simple fashion is important to not discourage the teachers to do so . Moreover ,   network effects and the massive use of the concept will provide community support thus encouraging the   long term use of the solution . These results confirms that we should have our minds “ prepared ” with the   good mindset for doing design thinking as it means learning from our successes and failures . For example ,   thanks to the effective application of “ learning launch ” we acquired more knowledge which will help to   continue developing the final solution . 

 Approach 

 Now that more knowledge is available to us and that we found that we should also focus on another group   of stakeholders ( teaching staff ) , I think we could apply ethnographic analysis and observation in order to   better understand their profiles . For this , we could use an alternative tool that we learned during the   course : mind mapping . This will help us cluster the different behaviors related to a profile in order to   better address their pains . Why should we proceed like this ? Because if we address their pains during the   recording of a new entry in the database it will ultimately get them more engaged in solving the initial   problem which is to help in the integration of children in an elementary school . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Challenge 

 I ’ve previously followed a training in design thinking where I was intended to carry out a project applying   its principles and tools . In this context , I worked to find a solution to better integrate children into   elementary schools . I chose this subject as I have relatives working in schools who are able to share their   experiences with me . I wanted to focus on bullying as it ’s a problem that hinders the correct evolution   and learning of children suffering it . This may arises because when children are perceived as being   “ different ” ( e.g. they have disabilities , they are part of a minority group , etc . ) . After following the different   steps of design thinking I was able to identify a concept that would potentially help improving the   integration of children thanks to a reduction of the bullying suffered . The concept I propose intends to   solve one problem that emerged during the problem definition phase : there ’s poor monitoring and   following up of children due to a lack of effective and timely communication among the different   stakeholders concerned by this issue ( parents , peers , teaching staff and other school staff ) . 

 Selection 

 The tool I select is the “ Learning launch ” . I chose this tool because at this stage it is recommended to go   to the field with a fast and cheap prototype in order to test our assumptions and most importantly : learn .   The most important aspect is to “ fail fast and at low cost ” in order to acquire knowledge which will help   us decide if we continue exploring the concept or if we should pivot ( cf . “ Learning Launch Tool ” by   Ali Martinez on week 4 ) . That ’s why it ’s called “ learning launch ” because we are not trying to   sell our solution but to learn , hence we should n’t consider that we failed as long as we learned something . 

 Application 

 The concept to test will be a smartphone application used to record any bullying event into a database   shared with all the teaching staff . As I mentioned previously , this concept intends to improve the share of   information among the school staff . In some cases , the teacher of the next grade ( e.g. 4th grade ) is not   aware of the history of a student because of lack of communication with previous year teacher ( 3rd grade ) . 

 First of all , we should define the assumptions that we want to test and in this case ( in order to keep the   document short and simple ) , we will test if teachers will find it easy and not too much time consuming   the action of entering a new record . Therefore , the experiment is as follows : 

 During 4 weeks , all the teachers in a pilot elementary school will use an app that asks 4 questions to record   any bullying event : “ When did it happen ? ( select from a calendar having today ’s date as default ) ” ; “ What ’s   the name ( Student ID ) of the child who suffered bullying ? ( dropdown searchable list ) ” ; “ What are the   names ( Student ID ) of the children who bullied their peer ? ( dropdown searchable list ) ” ; “ Push the button   to record a short message describing the event ( it ’ll be post - processed to be stored in text format thanks   to Google API “ Speech - to - text ” as it ’s an algorithm ready to use ) ” . 

 Every time they record an event into the database , the time spent doing so is recorded . They will also be   interviewed after the test phase to have their feedback and better understand how they felt during the   experiment . 

 Insight 

 It has been found that teachers are willing to engage in recording any bullying event that happen as it   does n’t take too much time to do it ( 4 minutes on average ) ; the basic information is introduced quickly 

 and most of the time is spent in recording the vocal message with the context of the situation ; they like   it ’s simple ( 4 questions ) and the option to record their vocal message ; it ’s important to engage as many   teachers ( and other school staff ) as we can because network externalities have a high impact to keep   them engaged . This means that if for example one teacher does n’t like using the app but on average word   of mouth is positive , the community pressure will make him adopt and start using it . All of these insights   confirm the assumption that teachers find easy and not too much time consuming the action of entering   a new record . 

 The insights generated affected my thinking about the challenge in that even if the final objective is to   better integrate children in schools thanks to bullying mitigation , it will be possible only with a strong   collaboration and engagement of school staff . As I mentioned in the analysis , the ability to record new   entries in the database in a simple fashion is important to not discourage the teachers to do so . Moreover ,   network effects and the massive use of the concept will provide community support thus encouraging the   long term use of the solution . These results confirms that we should have our minds “ prepared ” with the   good mindset for doing design thinking as it means learning from our successes and failures . For example ,   thanks to the effective application of “ learning launch ” we acquired more knowledge which will help to   continue developing the final solution . 

 Approach 

 Now that more knowledge is available to us and that we found that we should also focus on another group   of stakeholders ( teaching staff ) , I think we could apply ethnographic analysis and observation in order to   better understand their profiles . For this , we could use an alternative tool that we learned during the   course : mind mapping . This will help us cluster the different behaviors related to a profile in order to   better address their pains . Why should we proceed like this ? Because if we address their pains during the   recording of a new entry in the database it will ultimately get them more engaged in solving the initial   problem which is to help in the integration of children in an elementary school .
### Output: 