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What If? Building Students’ Problem-Solving Skills Through Complex Challenges

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<P>If a fundamental goal of schooling is to prepare young people for the unknowable future, why do we assign students so many clearly defined tasks with predetermined solutions?  According to the author, the best way to unleash students' problem solving and creativity—and thus prepare them to face real-world problems—is to incorporate complex challenges that teach students to respond productively to uncertainty. This book explains how to foster <Q>possibility thinking<\Q> to help students think creatively and counterintuitively; the process of lesson unplanning, or transforming lessons, activities, and assignments into more complex challenges; four basic action principles to design and solve complex challenges; and the steps for creating legacy challenges, which require students to identify a problem, develop a solution, and ensure that their work makes a lasting contribution.  Invite uncertainty into your classroom—and discover what your students are capable of.</P>

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Praise for What If?.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Table of Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Challenges: From Simple to Complex.
1: What Is a Challenge?.
2: The Continuum of Challenges.
3: The Four Action Principles: Stop-Think-Do-Learn.
4: Lesson Unplanning.
Legacy Challenges: Going Beyond the Classroom.
5: Introducing Legacy Challenges.
6: What Is the Problem?.
7: Problem Refining.
8: Why Does the Problem Matter?.
9: What Are We Going to Do About the Problem?.
10: Documenting Academic Learning in Legacy Challenges.
11: What Lasting Contribution Will We Make?.
Final Thought.
FAQs Complex Challenges in and Beyond the Classroom.
References.
Index.
About the Author.

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