Debate topics from last week.
Tear down tent city? Ban the use of the N-word?
NFL cracks down on the use of the N-word. CLICK to read
How children are viewing the election in the USA. CLICK to read
Are some sports logos racist? Should they be changed? CLICK to read
#Global Solutions (thelearningpartnership.ca)
Problem solving. What is a "wicked problem?"
Trained problem solvers will agree on result and/or method.
Well-Structured Problems (The math problem). These problems
are easy to control and solve once we are taught the method.
Mathematical formulas, assuming we have applied them
correctly, will always yield the correct solution. They are also
easier to recognize and place in categories (this is a ‘math
problem’ this is an ‘economics problem’.) Experts in this type of
problem will agree on both the result of and the method.to be
used in solving the problem.
Medium-Structured Problems. (The investment problem).
Medium-structured problems are more complex, because there
may be more than one correct solution. Professionals will agree
on the structure of the problem and the end state, but there may
be more than one way to arrive at that desired result.
Ill-Structured Problems. (The poverty problem). Ill-structured
problems are the most challenging because they are technically
complicated and involve competing human values and feelings
on the other. Unlike well- or medium-structured problems,
professionals will disagree about how to solve this type of
problem, what should be the end state, and whether the desired
end state is even possible. In 1972, a professor of Design at UC
Berkeley, Horst Rittel,3 described the characteristics of socially
complex problems, which he called “wicked problems”—not
wicked in the sense of evil, but rather extremely difficult.
CLICK to watch on how a wicked problem was addressed.
TED Talk on the Lucky Iron Fish. CLICK to watch
This is no longer a wicked problem.
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