{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Make It Mindful: Insights for Global Learning","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.Together, 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.Key topicsAudience as motivator: \"good\" vs. \"good enough\"Iterative storytelling as pedagogy, not summative assessmentThe Serra–Parklands College partnership across continentsAI as a tough-questions generatorMinimum viable conditions for project-based learning at any schoolConcrete student projects: Scale Bridge, Fruit Share, the desiccant sachetLinks & ResourcesNext Vista for Learning — https://www.nextvista.orgRotary.cool — http://rotary.cool (Rushton's Rotary club, the connector to many of the showcase's global audience members)Junipero Serra High School — https://www.serrahs.com Parklands College, Cape Town — https://www.parklands.co.za/Kevin Brookhouser, The 20 Time Project — https://www.20time.org/More or Less (BBC) — Rushton's...","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}