You are in the ideating stage of your collaborative design-thinking task for Strand 2.1. Clarifying named the community issue. Today you participate: you generate as many responses as you can, and you judge none of them yet.

Most groups stop at ten ideas and call it done. The useful ones often sit past idea twenty. You will study a worked three-round board, then run the same rounds on your problem definition and capture the full board in your Collaborative Task Ideation document. That board is Digital Portfolio evidence for your collaborative task, not a side exercise. Developing next only works if today's list is wide.

Before you see how a real group ran ideation, mark each claim true or false on what you honestly think right now. Do not discuss first. You will revisit these instincts after you study a worked board and run your own rounds.

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Study how one student group ran ideation on a local community issue. Notice the three rounds: rapid-fire out loud, silent writing, then build-on. Notice where the three starred ideas actually came from.

Think about while you read the beats:

• Which round produced most of the starred survivors, and what does that suggest about stopping after rapid-fire?
• Find one rapid-fire idea that looked weak alone but became useful in a build-on. What changed?
• If this group had judged ideas out loud during round 1, which later idea would probably never have appeared?

You will run the same three rounds on your problem definition later this lesson. Keep the process in mind; the community issue in the example is only the model.

Now annotate a cleaned-up version of a similar ideation board. Tag each marked phrase as rapid-fire, silent, build-on, starred, or early judgement (a moment where someone broke the defer-judgement rule). When the model appears, notice where you disagreed.

This is skill practice on the sample board. Your own community ideas come next; do not file sample favourites as project evidence.

Now participate for real. Open your group's problem-definition from clarifying. Create or open this Digital Portfolio file if it does not exist yet:

Filename: Collaborative Task Ideation
Location: Strand 2.1 folder in your Digital Portfolio (create the folder if needed)
Format: shared doc or notes file each member can copy

At the top, paste one line: your problem definition. Then add these headings and leave space under each:

• Round 1: Rapid-fire
• Round 2: Silent
• Round 3: Build-on
• Defer-judgement rule we will keep
• Three starred survivors
• Which round produced each star

Timed group run (use sticky notes or the list tool, then transfer everything into the document):

1. Rapid-fire (5 minutes): aloud, no discussion, no ranking. Write every shout up.
2. Silent (5 minutes): everyone writes alone; all notes go up together. No talking.
3. Build-on (5 minutes): every new idea must start from someone else's idea already on the board.
4. Cluster and star (5 minutes): star exactly three. Target for the full board is thirty-plus ideas. Ten is a chat, not ideation.

Each member keeps a full copy of the board in Collaborative Task Ideation. Under the starred heading, name the three survivors and write one line each on which round produced them. Add one sentence on an early-judgement moment your group nearly allowed, and one line on the idea from your board you are most attached to (and whether it survived starring).

What this entry shows for Portfolio in Action: your group generated a wide solution set for your Strand 2.1 collaborative community issue, deferred judgement, and can evidence where the strongest ideas came from.