The Five Skills Framework for Problem Solving
Speakers Marc Prensky (@marcprensky)
Speakers Marc Prensky (@marcprensky)
- What are you most passionate about? (What differentiates you?)
- What our kids need for tomorrow: problem solving skills, passion, producing the right stuff
- Five skills framework for problem solving:
- 1. figuring out the right thing to do
- behaving ethically, thinking critically, analyzing problems, making good decisions
- 2. getting it done
- setting goals, planning, self-directing, self-evaluating
- 3. working with others (communicating and interacting)
- with individuals, machines (programming), world audience
- 4. doing it creatively
- thinking creatively, designing, playing, finding your voice
- 5. continually doing it better
- being proactive, taking prudent risks,
- Passion is so important! It’s tough to solve problems you don’t care about.
- passion is how you get work; you want to hire employees who are passionate about the job! no different in the classroom
- passion → producing the right stuff
- Yesterday literate person → today’s literate person → tomorrow’s literate person (work in virtual community, make a video, write a program)
- we need to prepare our students to be tomorrow’s literate person
- video is becoming the new text
- we need to prepare our students to write programs!
- part of programming is using filters; knowing how to use filters; etc.
- Decision making is a subset of problem solving
- How do you ask good questions?
- what is a good question? a good question is something that makes a person say… “that’s a good question.” they need to reflect and cannot spit the answer off the top of their head. a question that makes you think (socratic question).
- go beyond the question and pose them as problems
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