Problems are interesting puzzles
if you are ready.
Otherwise they are stoppers
People like to solve puzzles. They buy things that present puzzles. They spend a lot of effort solving puzzles. They develop skills at solving puzzles. Then there is education. Much like a batch of puzzles. But many people see education as a batch of problems.
Do schools teach problem-solving?
- Sure, they present the students with the problem of getting a passing grade.
- But do schools offer a course in solving problems?
- Problem-solving (Wikipedia)
- Problem-solving skills (Google search)
- Problem solving: the mark of an independent employee
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Articles about problem-solving in this blog
- The Deer-in-the-Headlight Model for Problem-Solving
- Quick quotes about solutions and the problems that made them
- Problems and the seven gates to solving them. Like a game?
- Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
- Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
- Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
- Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
Challenge-based learning: practice in problem solving
- Project-based education could produce useful results for learner and society
- Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not.
- Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
- Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
- Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
- Massacre at Wounded Knee, example of project-based learning in virtual worlds
- Social games for social VR: A virtual match game
- Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
- We are wired to innovate. Do schools teach creativity?
- Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
- CoSpaces: Virtual worlds for grade school. Maker movement again
- The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds
- Challenges don't just teach content. They teach students what they can do.
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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