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An Introduction to Integrative Thinking

Heidi Siwak Bring IT Together 2014

@heidisiwak Niagara Falls, Ontariohsiwak@hwdsb.on.ca Thursday, November 6www.heidisiwak.com

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My classroom is media and technology rich.

• Inquiry

We do interesting things!

3D Printer

Mapping

Digital Tools to create demonstrations of learning.

Create a tourism app.

Guiding Principles

Thinking

Creativity

Problem Solving

Communication

Disciplines: Literacy, Math, History, Science …

Inquiry

Knowledge Building

Integrative Thinking

Design Thinkingand also Teacher-Directed Learning

At one time there were no people living in North America. Now there are millions.

How? Why? When? did people first come to North America?

What’s your theory?

12 Principles of Knowledge Building

Stephen Harper has no time for the U.N. Is this a reasonable stance?

Knowledge Building Circle

Roger Martin

Integrative ThinkingDean, Rotman School of Management

University of Toronto

I-Think Initiative

http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facultyandresearch/researchcentres/desautelscentre/programs/i-think.aspx

Toolkit

Mental Models

We are constantly trying to make sense of the world.

We do this by creating models.

But our model is this.

We see things that aren’t there.

We make things up.

Once we’ve seen something

It’s hard to unsee.

We don’t see past our first impressions.

We miss things.

We often don’t know why our model exists.

Each person’s model is different.

City

What does a doctor look like?

Neurosurgeon

Freedom!

Our models are always incomplete

and therefore wrong.

You are only ever

working with

your current best idea.

Sometimes our models clash.

Perfect Vacation

Endless discussions. No action.

We argue from conclusions.

Guns are good!Guns are bad!

Entrenched positions are not useful.

Either or choices are limiting.

Pro Pro Model

Total Surveillance

• Describe the model

• Identify stakeholders

• (Government, Citizen, Business)

• Find value

• Safety

No Surveillance

• Describe the model

• Identify stakeholders

• (Government, Citizen, Business)

• Find value

• Freedom

Students as Design Thinkers

How might we …

design a communication system that keeps us safe and protects our freedoms?

Integrative Thinking

Look for the tensions …

that is where interesting solutions will be found.

From these tensions, create something new.

How does a new idea start?

Invent Something Entirely New

Adventure Water

Problem Exploration

Simple

A + B = C

Complicated

How do I get 1 child to the other to and feed everyone?

Wicked

Causal Models

Ladder of Inference

The Value Line

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Agree

Gun shooting of Jordan Davis

System 1 and System 2 Thinking

George Orwell’s House

System 1 Thinking

System 2 Thinking

Creative Confidence

Finding Value in Bad Ideas

Internalizing the Discourse of Thinking

Jane

“ … I was towards mental health problems on the value line, but when we read Section 83 of the criminal code and saw that it’s when people try to make you feel unsafe, then I shifted towards terrorist”.Kira

“I can’t make a decision yet. I want to know what’s in the Coroner’s report and the video he made.”Chloe

HWDSB West Cluster Integrative Thinking Initiative

Might Be UsefulThe Amaryllis http://www.heidisiwak.com/

Integrative Thinking

HWDSB Integrative Thinking Initiative http://ithink.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/

University of Toronto, Rotman Ithinkhttp://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facultyandresearch/researchcentres/desautelscentre/programs/i-think.aspx

Knowledge Building http://knowledge-building.org/

People to follow:

@noghkornberg

@jennzia

@ithinkhwdsb

@AudreyHensen

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