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Copyright CT Invention Convention 2008INVENTING: A WAY TO ACHIEVE
STANDARDS
CT INVENTION CONVENTION WORKSHOP SEPT. 20, 2008
To understand is to Invent Jean Piaget
Copyright 1983-2008 CT Invention Convention
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Agenda for Today
9:30 Introductions
Your Presenters: Honora Kenney, Karen Brennan, Donna Rand assisted by Charlie Baumgartner and Helen Charov
9:45 – 10:15 Overview and Purpose 10:15 – 11:30 Breakout Session #1
Take Apart Workshop and Essential Lessons (Rm. 147) How to Run an Invention Convention in Your School or Program (Library
Media Center) CIC Meets the Standards – Try Inventing Yourselves! (Rm 303)
11:30 –12:15 Working Lunch - CIC Meets the Needs of All Students 12:15 - 1:30 Breakout Session #2 1:30 - 2:45 Breakout Session #3 2:45 – 3:00 Review of Resources, Wrap-up comments, Evaluation,
Drawing for books and other goodies, CEU Certificates awarded
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Presenters Connecticut Invention Convention
Karen Brennan – CIC Board Of DirectorsMarlborough Elem. SchoolSchool Wide Enrichment ConsultantMarlborough, CT
Honora Kenney – CIC Board Of DirectorsEducational ConsultantPortland, CT
Donna Rand– CIC SupporterE. Htfd. / Glastonbury Magnet SchoolE. Htfd., CT
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Let’s Warm Up - Who are you?
You each have 20 seconds to tell us your name, school or program, district, and what you hope to get from today’s workshop.
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Howard Gardner on Standardized Tests and Learning
“ Getting higher test scores on standardized tests is not the real need – What we need in America is for students to get more deeply interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know…”
Howard Gardner
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Talents Unlimited Reference
“We are attempting to educate students today so that they will be ready to solve future problems that have not yet been identified using technologies not yet invented based on scientific knowledge not yet discovered.”
-J.J. Lagowski
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Essential Question: Why Study Innovation and Teach Problem-Solving to
Children?
Society
Community
Child and Family
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Economics
The need for a high quality, knowledgeable workforce is more apparent than ever in today’s competitive national and international markets.
As America’s economy moved from a traditional manufacturing base to high-technology manufacturing and services, the need for innovative young people continued to increase.
The demands for people who possess solid basic skills, as well as the ability to engage in problem solving and to develop inventive solutions are rapidly increasing.
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What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report
A Three-Part Foundation Basic Skills
Reading Writing Arithmetic/Mathematics Listening Speaking
The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
U.S. Department of Labor, 1991
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SCANS Report (cont.)
Thinking Skills Creative Thinking Decision Making Problem Solving Seeing Things in
the Mind’s Eye Knowing How to
Learn Reasoning
Personal Qualities Responsibility Self-Esteem Sociability Self-Management Integrity/Honesty
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Invention and the Learning Cycle
Engagement: stimulate students’ interest, curiosity and preconceptions;
Exploration: first-hand experiences with concepts without direct instruction;
Explanation: students’ explanations followed by introduction of formal terms and clarifications;
Elaboration: applying knowledge to solve a problem. Students frequently develop and complete their own well-designed investigations;
Evaluation: students and teachers reflection change in conceptual understanding and identify ideas still “under development”.
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What Is Inquiry?From I N S T I T U T E F O R I N Q U I R Y:
www. e x p l o r a t o r i u m . e d u / i f i © E x p l o r a t o r i u m
Good science education requires both learning scientific concepts and developing scientific
thinking skills. Inquiry is an approach to
learning that involves a process of exploring the natural or material world, and that leads to asking questions, making discoveries, and
testing those discoveries in the search for new understanding.
Inquiry, as it relates to science education, should mirror as closely as possible
the enterprise of doing real science.
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Young Children Invent at the East Hartford/Glastonbury Magnet School
The focus of this clip is the connection to social conditions (handicapping circumstances), the diversity of invention ideas, and students who solve their own problems with invention.
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“It’s Only a Paper Bag”
1. Examining “Bagness” and Bag Attributes
2. List the many, varied, and unusual bags. (brainstorm and record your ideas)
3. SCAMPER the bag.
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Remember the rules of brainstorming
no criticism, work for quantity, hitchhiking welcome, freewheeling
encouraged
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Let’s “SCAMPER” The Bag
Substitute What other material? Other approach?Combine Combine with another thing? Another idea?Adapt What else is like this? New uses?Modify Modify the form - Add to - Take away?Magnify Greater frequency? Stronger? Higher? Longer?Minify Condensed? Omit? Subtract?Put to Other Use
New uses? For whom?Eliminate Remove portionsRearrange Interchange components? New pattern or layout? Sequence? Transpose cause and effectReverse Positive to negative? Opposites? Reverse roles?
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The Inventive Mind –Elements of Inventive Thinking
Creative Thinking
Fluency
Flexibility
Originality and
Elaboration
“Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun”
- Anonymous
Critical Thinking
Cause and Effect
Classification and Relationships
Sequencing and Planning
Making Decisions
Comparing, Observing
Generating Questions
“The whole of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.”
Albert Einstein
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Inventive Mind (con’t)
Inventors: Demonstrate Openness and Courage Observe Skillfully and Deeply Acquire and Use Much Information Creatively Know how to Generate and Analyze Possibilities Know and Listen to Their “Inner Voice” Engage in Continuous Improvement
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Einstein has the Final Word
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution,
Which may merely be a matter of mathematical or experimental skills.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances in science.”
Albert Einstein
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I Need to Know More!
•Need books? Contact the UConn Bookstore at www.bookstore.uconn.edu•Need more materials? CIC Website is www.ctinventionconvention.org•Trying to start up? All new programs will be assigned a mentor you can call or email for support and assistance•Need tools? Try the FIXA kits from Ikea for $7.99•Need money? Sorry – wrong number!
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Thanks . . . and remember the “Horse
Story”
Common advice from knowledgeable horse trainers includes the adage, “If the horse you’re riding dies, get off.” Seems simple enough, yet in education, we don’t always follow that advice. Instead, we might:
• Buy a stronger whip or tighten the cinch• Switch riders• Move the dead horse to a new location• Ride the dead horse for longer periods of
time• Say “But this is the way we have always
ridden the horse”• Appoint a committee to study the dead
horse• Arrange to visit other sites where they ride
dead horses • Complain about the state of horses these
days• Blame the horse’s breeding
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