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 PROBLEM SOLVING

 by using Design Process:

 Problem Solving & Design   •

 WHAT do we design?

 Objectives of Design   •

Mental-and-Physical Skills

 HOW do we design?

 Design Process — what it IS   •

Design Process - what it ISN'T  •

    (reducing inaccurate stereotypes)

Descriptive and Prescriptive

Modes of Thinking-and-Action  •

    (the modes are not steps)

1. DEFINE a Design Project

2. GENERATE Options-Information

Design & Use Theory-Models

Design & Use Experiments

3. EVALUATE Options

Quality Control for Actualizing

4. COORDINATE Process of Design

 Science Process — An Overview   •

My PhD-Model of Science Process

 Two Kinds of Design:

 Design and Science   (comparing)  •

Natures of Design & Science

 EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS

 from using Design Process:

 Motivations to Learn   •

 Transfers of Learning   •

 Teaching Design Process – Why?   •

Other Ways to Teach Inquiry  •

Experience plus Principles  •

Verbal-and-Visual Instruction

 Teaching Design Process – How?   •

Instruction using Design Process  •

Tennis and Other Games

 Design Activities (inquiry,...)   •

 Curriculum Design & Adoption    •

A Variety of Educational Goals

Teaching DP in Computer Games

Benefits of Eclectic Instruction  •

 An Ideas-and-Skills Curriculum   •

 The wide scope of design lets us

 Build Educational Bridges  (•) from

life to design-and-science to life

in a Wide-Spiral Curriculum.  •

 New K-12 Science Ed Standards   •

Standards and Design Process

A Glossary-for-Terms in NGSS

 Creative-and-Critical Thinking   •

(creative generation of ideas

 guided by critical evaluation,

 and free generation of ideas)

Creative Uses of Analysis

 Cognition-and-Metacognition   •

Design of Learning Strategies  •

Learning from Experience

Procrastination? - Using Time

Optimal Performance

EXTRA PAGES — in website,
but not in the sitemap above:

Science Process in my PhD Project

Collaboration in a Process of Design

Delayed Re-Optimization of Skills

Strategies to Minimize Distractions

Pros & Cons of Brainstorming (etc)

Pareto Principle (80-20 in Education).

Links from Twitter (re: creativity,...)

#edchat - effects of exams

Frame-Set  (click this if you don't
see 2 pages, on left & right sides)

dual-link testing page

This website is developed by

Craig Rusbult, Ph.D. (contact).

( my life on a "road less traveled" )

EXTRA PAGES — in website,
but not in the sitemap above:

Understanding and Respect

Educational Innovation at UW

A Community for Lab Education

Productive Responses to Feedback

Teaching/Learning/Grading in Labs

Evaluation of Higher-Level Thinking

Conceptual Evaluation of Instruction

Joy of Thinking in Design & Science

Emily and You - Be All You Can Be

Educational Value of Organization

how I didn't learn to ski (and did)

my first project - bamboo flutes

how a friend became an expert

Actively Learning from Others

Energy-Based Case Studies

Pros & Cons of "Skills" Courses

My Knowledge in Different Areas

How People Learn  &  LearnLab