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An Introduction to Integrative Thinking
Heidi Siwak Bring IT Together 2014
@heidisiwak Niagara Falls, [email protected] Thursday, November 6www.heidisiwak.com
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My classroom is media and technology rich.
• Inquiry
We do interesting things!
3D Printer
Mapping
Digital Tools to create demonstrations of learning.
Create a tourism app.
Guiding Principles
Thinking
Creativity
Problem Solving
Communication
Disciplines: Literacy, Math, History, Science …
Inquiry
Knowledge Building
Integrative Thinking
Design Thinkingand also Teacher-Directed Learning
At one time there were no people living in North America. Now there are millions.
How? Why? When? did people first come to North America?
What’s your theory?
12 Principles of Knowledge Building
Stephen Harper has no time for the U.N. Is this a reasonable stance?
Knowledge Building Circle
Roger Martin
Integrative ThinkingDean, Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
I-Think Initiative
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facultyandresearch/researchcentres/desautelscentre/programs/i-think.aspx
Toolkit
Mental Models
We are constantly trying to make sense of the world.
We do this by creating models.
But our model is this.
We see things that aren’t there.
We make things up.
Once we’ve seen something
It’s hard to unsee.
We don’t see past our first impressions.
We miss things.
We often don’t know why our model exists.
Each person’s model is different.
City
What does a doctor look like?
Neurosurgeon
Freedom!
Our models are always incomplete
and therefore wrong.
You are only ever
working with
your current best idea.
Sometimes our models clash.
Perfect Vacation
Endless discussions. No action.
We argue from conclusions.
Guns are good!Guns are bad!
Entrenched positions are not useful.
Either or choices are limiting.
Pro Pro Model
Total Surveillance
• Describe the model
• Identify stakeholders
• (Government, Citizen, Business)
• Find value
• Safety
No Surveillance
• Describe the model
• Identify stakeholders
• (Government, Citizen, Business)
• Find value
• Freedom
Students as Design Thinkers
How might we …
design a communication system that keeps us safe and protects our freedoms?
Integrative Thinking
Look for the tensions …
that is where interesting solutions will be found.
From these tensions, create something new.
How does a new idea start?
Invent Something Entirely New
Adventure Water
Problem Exploration
Simple
A + B = C
Complicated
How do I get 1 child to the other to and feed everyone?
Wicked
Causal Models
Ladder of Inference
The Value Line
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
Gun shooting of Jordan Davis
System 1 and System 2 Thinking
George Orwell’s House
System 1 Thinking
System 2 Thinking
Creative Confidence
Finding Value in Bad Ideas
Internalizing the Discourse of Thinking
Jane
“ … I was towards mental health problems on the value line, but when we read Section 83 of the criminal code and saw that it’s when people try to make you feel unsafe, then I shifted towards terrorist”.Kira
“I can’t make a decision yet. I want to know what’s in the Coroner’s report and the video he made.”Chloe
HWDSB West Cluster Integrative Thinking Initiative
Might Be UsefulThe Amaryllis http://www.heidisiwak.com/
Integrative Thinking
HWDSB Integrative Thinking Initiative http://ithink.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/
University of Toronto, Rotman Ithinkhttp://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facultyandresearch/researchcentres/desautelscentre/programs/i-think.aspx
Knowledge Building http://knowledge-building.org/
People to follow:
@noghkornberg
@jennzia
@ithinkhwdsb
@AudreyHensen
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