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Rethinking Education to Prepare Children for Success
in the Knowledge Age
Glenn Ellis Picker Engineering Program
Smith College
Why hire a U.S. engineer at 5x the cost?
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Why hire a U.S. engineer at 5x the cost?
$$$$$ $$
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
Grand Challenges (NAE)
Develop carbon sequestration methods
Improve urban infrastructure
Reverse-engineer
the brain
Enhance virtual reality
Make solar energy economical
Manage the
nitrogen cycle
Advance
health informatics
Prevent
nuclear terror
Advance
personalized learning
Provide energy
from fusion
Provide access
to clean water
Engineer better
medicines
Secure cyberspace
Engineer tools
of scientific discovery
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
Futuristic Business
Learning Sciences
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
Minimize content mastery
Emphasize content mastery
Futuristic Business
Learning Sciences
Futuristic Business
Learning Sciences
Learning with understanding leads to
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
Direct Learning
Indirect Learning
1. People learn what they process.
2. The skills most likely to be learned are the minimal ones necessary to accomplish the range of tasks presented.
Futuristic Business
Learning Sciences
Learning with understanding leads to
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
Futuristic Business
Learning Sciences
Learning with understanding leads to
CreativityGroup work
CommunicationInformation-finding
Problem solvingTechnological literacy
Continual learning
Knowledge Building
February 14, 2008Smith College Offers Model for Attracting Women…
…Today’s Christian Science Monitor profiles Glenn Ellis, a professor who helped develop Smith’s innovative engineering curriculum, which emphasizes context, ethics, and communication as much as formulas and equations…
Comments
11. So, there is a push to remove calculus and calculus-based pedagogy because women don’t make as much as men? …It’s kind of embarrassing actually.
— e buzz miller Feb #15, 01:51 PM #
16. …Strangely enough, my employer expects me to know math and all that icky stuff.
— Jordan Feb 15, 04:15 PM #
Thursday, February 14, 2008Breaking: Equations Not All That Important In Engineering
…Well, a Smith College professor found a way around that for getting women into engineering: Ignore the math…I'm no expert, but I'm not clear on what you can engineer with "context, ethics, and communication.”
Tuesday, February 19, 2008Defending Smith College on Engineering
…Engineering isn't the same as science, and you can't be a good engineer unless you understand the economic, political, historical, and ethical context of what you're trying to do, as well as being able to communicate the wisdom of your design to a broader audience.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008Defending Smith College on Engineering
About a week ago I wrote a pretty sarcastic post about the Smith College engineering program — a Chronicle of Higher Education piece…said the curriculum "emphasizes context, ethics, and communication as much as formulas and equations." …these are in fact important facets to engineering, so the college might just be exploiting a more female-friendly niche, not creating bad engineers.
How are plants and animals different?
How are plants and animals different?
Authentic problems
Discourse for sustained idea improvement
Use authoritative sources
Community knowledge, collective responsibility
Students create higher level concepts
Students find own way and monitor progress
What is consciousness and can a machine have it?
Offers theory opposing machine consciousnessOffers theory opposing machine consciousness
Brings in DescartesBrings in Descartes
Offers theory opposing machine consciousnessOffers theory opposing machine consciousness
Brings in DescartesBrings in Descartes
Brings in Carl JungBrings in Carl Jung
Offers theory opposing machine consciousnessOffers theory opposing machine consciousness
Brings in DescartesBrings in Descartes
Contrasts Descartes with Buddhism Contrasts Descartes with Buddhism
Brings in Carl JungBrings in Carl Jung
Offers theory opposing machine consciousnessOffers theory opposing machine consciousness
Brings in DescartesBrings in Descartes
Contrasts Descartes with Buddhism Contrasts Descartes with Buddhism
Brings in Carl JungBrings in Carl Jung
Acknowledges new way of thinking Acknowledges new way of thinking
Offers theory opposing machine consciousnessOffers theory opposing machine consciousness
5th Graders
College Students
Create a statewide recovery plan to increase the number of bald eagles in your state.
5th Graders
College Students
Generate questions that you would like to have answered to help you learn more about eagle recovery plans.
5th Graders
College Students
5th Graders
Principals
Create a statewide recovery plan to increase the number of bald eagles in your state.
5th Graders
Principals
What would you do to learn to solve this problem?
5th Graders
Principals
Sequestered Problem Solving Efficiency…Replicate, Apply
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Preparation for Future Learning Innovation…Interpret