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How might we create new ways to learn so that we better prepare students for solving future problems?
December 20th 2023 @ 23:59 PM EST
Challenge
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Here was the background of the challenge.
Math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades, according to test scores published by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Achievement declined across lines of race, class and geography. But in math, especially, vulnerable children experienced bigger drops.
While American children experienced academic struggles during the pandemic, the trend predates the Covid pandemic. That said, it appears the pandemic accelerated the trend, with students learning at a slower rate than usual, creating a gap compared to their expected trajectory, dubbed by many as “learning loss.”
Math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades, according to test scores published by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Achievement declined across lines of race, class and geography. But in math, especially, vulnerable children experienced bigger drops.
While American children experienced academic struggles during the pandemic, the trend predates the Covid pandemic. That said, it appears the pandemic accelerated the trend, with students learning at a slower rate than usual, creating a gap compared to their expected trajectory, dubbed by many as “learning loss.”
According to academic researchers, the ages of 10 to 13 are a crucial period for mastering foundational skills, from multiplication to recognizing a character’s feelings in a short narrative passage. These results show that there are troubling gaps in the basic skills of these students and there is a huge-scale challenge that faces the nation. And researchers assert that “When students fall behind, they don’t just catch up naturally.”
The learning loss is expected to exact a toll on this younger generation. Students will be less prepared, on average, for college and a career. Experts believe that the fundamental challenge facing American society is finding new and creative ways of providing learning opportunities that go outside of the traditional classroom setting.
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What is this all about?
What is in it for you?
How do I know if I have the expertise to participate?
What happens after I submit to the challenge?
How do I get involved with future challenges?
What is this all about?
We’re inviting our friends to spend a few minutes to think, problem solve and brainstorm. We are trying to “solve an unsolvable problem.” And the best way to solve intractable problems is to seek out insights and inspiration from clever people who don’t work day-to-day on these kinds of problems.
What is in it for you?
- It takes very little time
- Learn about a totally different field and problems
- It’s a chance to practice your creative thinking
- And for those ideas that get selected for further development, you can become filthy rich…or at least get a $100 gift card For those who choose to share their name and preferred email, if your suggestion is selected, we will be sending you a $100 Amazon Gift Reward.
How do I know if I have the expertise to participate?
We are looking for creative people who are skilled at spotting unexpected relationships and associations.* At the heart of it, we believe that people who see patterns, where others do not, are the secret ingredient to discovering new and better ways of doing things. Often times, the best solutions come from far outside the specific field of expertise.
What happens after I submit to the challenge?
All submissions will be reviewed when the challenge closes. All participants will be contacted directly by our team to share the winners. For this reason, please ensure that you provide correct and up to date contact details. Winning contributors will be contacted and an award will be sent.
How do I get involved with future challenges?
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Ideas from the community
Creative Problem Solving for Kids!
GameOn for Knowledge Gains
Creative Problem Solving for Kids!
Creative Problem Solving for Kids! CPS and Design Thinking are tools that are relevant for both children and adults. There are numerous programs that already exist to expose children to creativity. Why not double down on this and make it a part of the core curriculum. Creativity has been noted as one of the most important skills for the 21st century according to the world bank. Yet it's not incorporated in any of my local schools.
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GameOn for Knowledge Gains
Develop an interactive, gamified learning platform that caters to individual learning needs. This platform offers personalized learning pathways with engaging games and challenges. Students can progress at their own pace, earning rewards and recognition along the way. By incorporating educational content into games, we can make learning enjoyable and effective. This approach not only addresses the learning loss issue but also instills a love for learning. Moreover, it allows students to build a strong foundation in key subjects while having fun.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our Deliberate Way of problem solving is super interactive, smartly designed AND generates hundreds of non-obvious ideas and actionable solutions that are ready for your team to execute. We do it by combining exceptional facilitation together with crowdsourcing and behavioral science techniques. Traditional problem solving workshops use the same old, familiar approaches and produce the same old ideas.
We follow a systematic and multi-step approach to planning your offsite.It starts with our team conducting a fact-finding session with your sponsor and/or planning team to define your goals, outcomes, wishes and concerns. We turn those findings into an offsite planning brief that will enable us to start designing a highly customized offsite experience.During the planning process, we conduct regularly scheduled (often weekly) planning meetings to ensure alignment. And weeks prior to the offsite, we conduct a comprehensive “run of show” review with the planning team. We also frequently host a “Participant Briefing” session to prepare and inspire participants in advance of the offsite.
Most ideas in workshop lean towards the familiar and incremental. Our Deliberate Way helps to break those traditional patterns of thinking. We use crowdsourcing to generate a wide array of useful metaphors, contributed from both our Deliberate Innovator network. We turn those metaphors into use cases and creative prompts to your specific challenge in order to accelerate problem solving and generate non-obvious solutions.