Power Learning 2.0

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Power Learning 2.0

• Beyond Interpretation
• to Synthesis

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The Legacy of Mere Gathering

• Topical Research
• Go find out about . . .
• Sydney
• Perth
• Adelaide

raw materials, climate, population, etc.
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Changing to Emphasize Literacies
Visual Numerical Text Media Ethical Artistic Socia
l Etc.

• Analysis
• Interpretation
• Inference
• Looking beyond information for meaning, insight
  and understanding

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Synthesis Adding Something New
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No New Ideas under the Sun?

• Are we condemned to a cut-and-paste culture?
• Is conventional wisdom the best we can do?
• How about a generation of inventors, thinkers and
  artists capable of making life better?

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Synthesis as Puzzling

• Moving, combining, adjusting, adapting ideas,
  elements and aspects
• SCAMPER - http//fno.org/jun01/building.html
• http//fno.org/sept01/covsept.html
• Substitute - Combine - Adjust - Modify - Put to
  Other Use - Eliminate - Reverse

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Developing Good New Ideas

• Path of the Everyday Hero (Catford and Ray)

1) Having faith in your creativity 2) Suspending
negative judgment 3) Practicing precise
observation 4) Asking penetrating questions
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Power Learning 2.0

• Beyond Interpretation
• to Synthesis