4. Identify your ideas

Activity 1 - What are your ideas so far?

Activity Tasks

Review - Revisit and reflect upon your #passionbadge (Exploration 1), and idea statements and brainstorm of what qualities make a great idea (Exploration 2).
Summarise - From reviewing your work so far, summarise the main themes and patterns that stand out on the first table on page 15 of your ideas journal.
Discuss - As a group, discuss what makes an 'idea worth spreading'. Consider the following questions:
1. Which ideas can you tell a personal story about?
2. If everyone on earth listened to your idea, how would it change the world?
3. Which idea would you be most comfortable or excited speaking about?
4. Which idea are you uniquely positioned to talk about?
Identify - Now identify your best ideas so far for a talk (up to five) on the second table on page 15 of your ideas journal. Which idea are your most excited about?

Activity Tasks

Re-Write - Using the table at the top of page 16 of your ideas journal, rearrange your best ideas from your ideas dashboard so that your top three favourite ideas or most interesting topics are towards the top of the list.
Consider - What do you want to do with your talk? Explain? Persuade? Share? Which idea lets you do that most comfortably? Who would benefit from hearing your idea?
Share - Now share your top three ideas with your groups. Listen carefully to each others' ideas and use your 'ideas worth spreading' visual from Exploration 2 to help you consider each others' ideas.
Feedback - Take it in turns to give spade or diamond feedback to each persons' ideas. Carefully write down the feedback you get on the second table on page 16 of your ideas journal.

Activity Tasks

Write - After taking the time to reflect on your feedback, narrow down your three ideas to your best one. On page 17 of your ideas journal, write a couple of sentences explaining your winning idea: "The idea I want to focus on is..."
Share - Share your winning idea with your group and student leaders who will write them down. This is the idea you will develop into your final talk!

THINGS TO REFLECT

I have one good working option going forward (you may change your mind, and that's okay!)

THINGS TO DO

Share your top idea(s) in 1 — 2 sentences with people. See how it feels to say, what reactions people have and what new ideas come to you.
Complete the reflection on Part One activity on page 18 of your ideas journal. What have you learnt so far?

THINGS TO SHARE

Share your ideas with people outside of the group. You can present to a friend, parent, sibling or teacher.
Participate in #SelfieSunday! Students can post a photo of themselves posing with their idea(s) to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Don’t forget to use #TEDEdStudents, too!