21st Century Problem-21st Century Problem-SolvingSolving

Dr. David GibsonDr. David Gibson

Equity Alliance @ ASUEquity Alliance @ ASU

Today’s AgendaToday’s Agenda

NEW concepts for K-12 Goals for EducationNEW concepts for K-12 Goals for Education 21st Century Skills21st Century Skills Technology and Engineering ConceptsTechnology and Engineering Concepts New Media LiteraciesNew Media Literacies

Global Challenge Award & Equity AllianceGlobal Challenge Award & Equity Alliance GCA Goals ~ Process ~ SuccessGCA Goals ~ Process ~ Success

Partnership for 21st C SkillsPartnership for 21st C Skills

A Deeper Dive into 21st C SkillsA Deeper Dive into 21st C Skills

Financial, Economic, Financial, Economic, Business and Business and Entrepreneurial LiteracyEntrepreneurial Literacy Knowing how to make Knowing how to make

appropriate personal economic appropriate personal economic choices choices

Understanding the role of the Understanding the role of the economy in societyeconomy in society

Using entrepreneurial skills to Using entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace productivity enhance workplace productivity and career optionsand career options

Global AwarenessGlobal Awareness Using 21st century skills to Using 21st century skills to

understand and address global understand and address global issuesissues

Learning from and working Learning from and working collaboratively with individuals collaboratively with individuals representing diverse cultures, representing diverse cultures, religions and lifestyles in a spirit religions and lifestyles in a spirit of mutual respect and open of mutual respect and open dialogue in personal, work and dialogue in personal, work and community contexts community contexts

Understanding other nations Understanding other nations and cultures, including the use and cultures, including the use of non-English languagesof non-English languages

ISTE’s new FrameworkISTE’s new Framework Creativity and InnovationCreativity and Innovation Communication and CollaborationCommunication and Collaboration Research and Information FluencyResearch and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving Critical Thinking, Problem Solving

and Decision Makingand Decision Making Digital CitizenshipDigital Citizenship Technology Operations and Technology Operations and

ConceptsConcepts

Make it!Make it!

Say it!Say it!

Find it!Find it!

Solve it!Solve it!

Protect it!Protect it!

Use it!Use it!

Engineer of 2020Engineer of 2020 Strong analytic skills Practical ingenuity Creativity Communication Business and

management

LeadershipHigh ethical standardsProfessionalismDynamism, agility, resilience, and flexibilityLifelong learners

SystemsSystemsStructure-behavior-functionStructure-behavior-functionEmergent propertiesEmergent propertiesControl/feedbackControl/feedbackProcessesProcessesBoundariesBoundariesSubsystemsSubsystemsInteractionsInteractions

OptimizationOptimizationMultiple variablesMultiple variablesSocial constraintsSocial constraints

Cultural norms Cultural norms Requirements Requirements Physical Laws Physical Laws

Trade-offsTrade-offsResourcesResources

Side effectsSide effects

K-12 Engineering ConceptsK-12 Engineering Concepts

Engineering Design =Engineering Design =Structured Problem SolvingStructured Problem Solving

IdentificationIdentification DefinitionDefinition Search Search Establish Criteria and ConstraintsEstablish Criteria and Constraints Consider AlternativesConsider Alternatives AnalysisAnalysis DecisionDecision SpecificationSpecification CommunicationCommunication

PlayPlay - - the capacity tothe capacity to experiment with experiment with one’s surroundingsone’s surroundings as a form of as a form of problem-solvingproblem-solving

PerformancePerformance - - the ability tothe ability to adoptadopt alternative identitiesalternative identities for the purpose of for the purpose of improvisation and discoveryimprovisation and discovery

SimulationSimulation - - the ability tothe ability to interpret and interpret and construct dynamic modelsconstruct dynamic models of real-world of real-world processesprocesses

AppropriationAppropriation - - the ability to meaningfullythe ability to meaningfully sample and remix media contentsample and remix media content

MultitaskingMultitasking - - the ability tothe ability to scan one’s scan one’s environment and shift focusenvironment and shift focus as needed as needed to salient detailsto salient details

Distributed CognitionDistributed Cognition - - the ability to the ability to interact meaningfully withinteract meaningfully with tools that tools that expand mental capacitiesexpand mental capacities

Collective IntelligenceCollective Intelligence - - the ability tothe ability to pool pool knowledge and compare notes with othersknowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goaltoward a common goal

JudgmentJudgment - the ability to- the ability to evaluate the reliability evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sourcesand credibility of different information sources

Transmedia NavigationTransmedia Navigation - - the ability tothe ability to follow the follow the flow of stories and information across multiple flow of stories and information across multiple modalitiesmodalities

NetworkingNetworking - - the ability tothe ability to search for, synthesize, search for, synthesize, and disseminate informationand disseminate information

NegotiationNegotiation - - the ability tothe ability to travel across diverse travel across diverse communitiescommunities, , discerning and respectingdiscerning and respecting multiple perspectivesmultiple perspectives, , and grasping and and grasping and followingfollowing alternative normsalternative norms

VisualizationVisualization - - the ability tothe ability to interpret and create interpret and create data representationsdata representations for the purposes of for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trendsidentifying trends

New Media LiteraciesNew Media Literacies

How Kids Can Save the World On Their

Way to College

The Global Challenge Award

Global Challenge GoalsGlobal Challenge Goals

Assist pre-college students in Assist pre-college students in self-directed self-directed learninglearning of science, technology, engineering of science, technology, engineering and mathematicsand mathematics

Use Use game- and simulation-based guidancegame- and simulation-based guidance to understand the complex nature of global to understand the complex nature of global systemssystems

Use the Use the tools of computational science, tools of computational science, simulation, and telecommunicationssimulation, and telecommunications

Global Challenge:Global Challenge: What Is It?What Is It?Online Informal STEM EducationOnline Informal STEM Education

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WashingtonVermontCaliforniaFloridaPennsylvaniaetc.

ChinaIndiaKoreaJapanRussiaetc.

High school student teams work for months to develop a solution that addresses global warming & the future of energy.

High school student teams work for months to develop a solution that addresses global warming & the future of energy.

Global PartnershipsGlobal PartnershipsGlobal PartnershipsGlobal Partnerships

US & China

Photovoltaic Panels:Thin-film, Multi-junction CIGS with Quantum Dots

4-person teams from the US and 50 other countries meet and work online to solve global challenges

Challenge Game ElementsChallenge Game Elements Global Global collaborationcollaboration Student directedStudent directed Unstructured Unstructured real worldreal world problem problem STEM learning through STEM learning through simssims//gamesgames Mentor supportMentor support Online Online web site supportweb site support Web Web researchresearch for for innovationinnovation, ,

understandingunderstanding and and ideationideation TeamTeam & & individual learningindividual learning

opportunitiesopportunities

Re-Engineer AquacultureRe-Engineer Aquaculture

Re-Engineer a Plant EnzymeRe-Engineer a Plant Enzyme

……to increase the to increase the efficiency of plants on efficiency of plants on earth to produce O2 earth to produce O2 from CO2from CO2

Create a New ProcessCreate a New Process

Some students combine existing technologies in new ways, to achieve new efficiencies.

Design for Global “Scale-Up”Design for Global “Scale-Up”

Students select sites for global production and distribution

Explore - Experiment - Observe, record, analyze - Build models- Compare perspectives

- Lead & participate in research

World Game MissionsWorld Game MissionsWorld Game MissionsWorld Game Missions

Colleges in Our PipelineColleges in Our Pipeline

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