{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Make It Mindful: An Education Podcast","title":"#83 Audience Changes Everything: Rushton Hurley on Storytelling and the Power of the Showcase","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7ad50485\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2725,"description":"In this episode of Make It Mindful, Seth talks with Rushton Hurley — founder of Next Vista for Learning and Director of Innovation at Junipero Serra High School — about the annual showcase that brings student projects from Serra in California together with student projects from Parklands College in Cape Town. Rushton's claim, sharpened over years of running the Creative Solutions for the Global Good class: students aim for \"good\" when they know other people will see their work, and \"good enough\" when only the teacher will. The episode works through what changes — in design, in motivation, in resource requirements — when the audience expands.\nTogether, Seth and Rushton explore the design of the Creative Solutions for the Global Good class, the Serra–Parklands College partnership, the iterative storytelling model that replaces the year-end capstone, AI as a tough-questions generator (not a writing tool), and the minimum viable conditions for replicating this kind of work at less-resourced schools. The episode closes with a project from a Parklands student who redesigned the desiccant sachets used in pharmaceutical packaging — the original ones can leak when saturated, and her version changes color when it crosses the threshold.\nKey topics\nAudience as motivator: \"good\" vs. \"good enough\"\nIterative storytelling as pedagogy, not summative assessment\nThe Serra–Parklands College partnership across continents\nAI as a tough-questions generator\nMinimum viable conditions for project-based learning at any school\nConcrete student projects: Scale Bridge, Fruit Share, the desiccant sachet\nLinks & Resources\nNext Vista for Learning — https://www.nextvista.org\nRotary.cool — http://rotary.cool (Rushton's Rotary club, the connector to many of the showcase's global audience members)\nJunipero Serra High School — https://www.serrahs.com \nParklands College, Cape Town — https://www.parklands.co.za/\nKevin Brookhouser, The 20 Time Project — https://www.20time.org/\nMore or Less (BBC) —...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aX0c3Zcu_BWgnhhPpU7UI3YNLxRjFjQabj8M1H8irwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZjhi/ZWY0ZTA5YTUxYjE1/YTlmY2NlYTQ3NDkz/ZDZlYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}