Chapter 5 Design for Problem Solving

The challenge Current schooling does not match the demands of an information age.. The Horizon Report – we have a long way to do (emerging trends)The Horizon Report Tough Choices or Tough Times (to order free book)Tough Choices or Tough Times Tough Choices or Tough Times (PowerPoint presentation)Tough Choices or Tough Times

Excuse the more than 6X6... If we do not prepare to succeed in a highly competitive, knowledge-based, technology- driven global economy, we can expect the long-term decline in the earning power of our workers to continue and accelerate until we join the ranks of the second-rate powers. To avoid that outcome, our while population needs to be much better educated and very differently education (p. 46)

The portrait of a failed system

FOR EVERY th GRADERS: 68 GRADUATE ON TIME OF THOSE, 40 ENROLL DIRECTLY IN COLLEGE OF THOSE, 27 ARE STILL ENROLLED THE FOLLOWING YEAR: OF THOSE, 18 EARN AN ASSOCIATES DEGREE WITHIN 3 YEARS OR A B.A. WITHIN 6 YEARS 82 DON’T MAKE IT Tough Choices or Tough Times, p. 34

What is learning? The complex interaction of –Individual cognitive processing –The learner’s environment –Historical relationships with Culture Language Media

National Assessment of Educational Process found Students have improved in traditional basic skills. BUT, They are doing poorly in problem-solving Business needs workers who can: –Think –Problem-solve –Collaboratively

This chapter covers: 1.General problem-solving strategies Memory, information extending, information rearranging, and metacognition 2.Situated cognition, anchored instruction, and problem-centered learning 3.Four categories of activity to include when designing opportunities for learning

Portrait of a failing system