He has been thinking about the problem of learning for over three decades, starting with courses in problem solving that he taught at the University of California, Irvine, and then with artificial intelligence systems that Xerox built for the Army to better troubleshoot broken electronics.
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It would be nice, therefore, to believe that somewhere, the contemporary equivalent of a bored patent clerk is thinking about the problem, and that when he has thought hard enough, a new reality will emerge.
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.
His insight was outside the box thinking comes at the confluence of different experiences and different approaches to problem solving.
Those who remember that richer places such as Spain, Italy, Greece and the southern United States once harboured the disease may be misled into thinking that the problem is one of social institutions to control its transmission.
The secret was outsider thinking: The problem solvers on InnoCentive were most effective at the margins of their own fields.
For each technological hurdle deemed insurmountable by the experts, I would spend just a few hours thinking about the problem from a variety of sources.
Open Innovation is a real force multiplier for AFRL. By opening this challenge up to the world through Innocentive, we were able to multiply the number of people thinking about this problem over 100-fold, and received a workable solution within a 60-day period.
To get to the heart of the problem of US schools, we need to be thinking through more fundamentally: What is the goal of education?
The more productive way to approach the subject, however, is to consider the problem of long-range thinking in short-range matters.
The problem with this line of thinking is that over time the ratio of gold to silver prices has varied.
And a little publicity and financial incentive gets some of the greatest untapped minds to start thinking about a problem they may have never thought they could solve, until now.
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Social democrats are used to thinking of the state as the fixer of problems, not as the problem itself.
They are teaching this in the classroom, and encouraging the application of innovative thinking, experiential learning, and team problem solving to business, technology and social problems and issues.
To put it simply, thinking about the planet under pressure is still framed mainly in terms of problem-solving.
Ultimately the problem most people have is they sell the call thinking of return.
By the end, I couldn't help thinking that it's not London that the rest of the country has a problem with - it's the UK's over-centralised system of government.
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The problem is that big numbers of that sort can either scare investors into thinking a target is unobtainable or force them into a risky glide path in search of returns to reach that magic number.
The problem is, the government's vow of economic chastity has limited its thinking.
Focusing on a single problem and memorizing the prison and its routines are perfect examples of linear or convergent thinking.
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