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21st Century Problem-Solving

• Dr. David Gibson
• Equity Alliance _at_ ASU

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Todays Agenda

• NEW concepts for K-12 Goals for Education
• 21st Century Skills
• Technology and Engineering Concepts
• New Media Literacies
• Global Challenge Award Equity Alliance
• GCA Goals Process Success

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Partnership for 21st C Skills
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A Deeper Dive into 21st C Skills

• Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial
  Literacy
• Knowing how to make appropriate personal economic
  choices
• Understanding the role of the economy in society
• Using entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace
  productivity and career options

• Global Awareness
• Using 21st century skills to understand and
  address global issues
• Learning from and working collaboratively with
  individuals representing diverse cultures,
  religions and lifestyles in a spirit of mutual
  respect and open dialogue in personal, work and
  community contexts
• Understanding other nations and cultures,
  including the use of non-English languages

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ISTEs new Framework
Make it! Say it! Find it! Solve it! Protect
it! Use it!

• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Research and Information Fluency
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision
  Making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations and Concepts

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Engineer of 2020

• Strong analytic skills
• Practical ingenuity
• Creativity
• Communication
• Business and management

• Leadership
• High ethical standards
• Professionalism
• Dynamism, agility, resilience, and flexibility
• Lifelong learners

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K-12 Engineering Concepts

• Systems
• Structure-behavior-function
• Emergent properties
• Control/feedback
• Processes
• Boundaries
• Subsystems
• Interactions

• Optimization
• Multiple variables
• Social constraints
• Cultural norms
• Requirements
• Physical Laws
• Trade-offs
• Resources
• Side effects

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Engineering Design Structured Problem Solving

• Identification
• Definition
• Search
• Establish Criteria and Constraints
• Consider Alternatives
• Analysis
• Decision
• Specification
• Communication

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New Media Literacies

• Play - the capacity to experiment with ones
  surroundings as a form of problem-solving
• Performance - the ability to adopt alternative
  identities for the purpose of improvisation and
  discovery
• Simulation - the ability to interpret and
  construct dynamic models of real-world processes
• Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully
  sample and remix media content
• Multitasking - the ability to scan ones
  environment and shift focus as needed to salient
  details
• Distributed Cognition - the ability to interact
  meaningfully with tools that expand mental
  capacities

• Collective Intelligence - the ability to pool
  knowledge and compare notes with others toward a
  common goal
• Judgment - the ability to evaluate the
  reliability and credibility of different
  information sources
• Transmedia Navigation - the ability to follow the
  flow of stories and information across multiple
  modalities
• Networking - the ability to search for,
  synthesize, and disseminate information
• Negotiation - the ability to travel across
  diverse communities, discerning and respecting
  multiple perspectives, and grasping and following
  alternative norms
• Visualization - the ability to interpret and
  create data representations for the purposes of
  expressing ideas, finding patterns, and
  identifying trends

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How Kids Can Save the World On Their Way to
College
The Global Challenge Award
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Global Challenge Goals

• Assist pre-college students in self-directed
  learning of science, technology, engineering and
  mathematics
• Use game- and simulation-based guidance to
  understand the complex nature of global systems
• Use the tools of computational science,
  simulation, and telecommunications

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Global Challenge What Is It?Online Informal
STEM Education
High school student teams work for months to
develop a solution that addresses global warming
the future of energy.
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China India Korea Japan Russia etc.
Washington Vermont California Florida Pennsylvania
etc.
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Global Partnerships
4-person teams from the US and 50 other countries
meet and work online to solve global challenges
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Challenge Game Elements

• Global collaboration
• Student directed
• Unstructured real world problem
• STEM learning through sims/games
• Mentor support
• Online web site support
• Web research for innovation, understanding and
  ideation
• Team individual learning opportunities

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Re-Engineer Aquaculture
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Re-Engineer a Plant Enzyme

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

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Create a New Process
Some students combine existing technologies in
new ways, to achieve new efficiencies.
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Design for Global Scale-Up
Students select sites for global production and
distribution
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World Game Missions
Explore - Experiment - Observe, record, analyze -
Build models- Compare perspectives - Lead
participate in research
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Colleges in Our Pipeline
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• www.equityallianceatasu.org
• www.globalchallengeaward.org