Fostering Creativity & Critical Thinking by Ben Koo (iCenter, Tsinghua University)

Ben Koo

iCenter, Tsinghua University

Before 1970s Truck Manufactring Divison of Tsinghua Unviersity

1970s Metal Workshop Required Courses for all students

2014 and later

The Maker-Space of Tsinghua Offering a series of new courses

A bit of history

Maker/Hacker Education

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•  iCenter serves more than 6000+ students annually

Assuming these metrics are good…

HOW DO WE CONDUCT CURRICULUM UNDER

TREMENDOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES?

(C) System

Integration Design

Challenge

基于 所衍生的课程体系

(M) System

Integration Design

Challenge

Trans-Disciplinary Coginitive Foundation

System Design in Computational Thinking

Global Innovation/Manufacturing Strategies

A. Societal Development

B. Technological Architectures

技术架构 C. Application-Oriented Projects

VR/AR Content

Production

Machine Learning

/AI

Advancded Manufacturing

(Specializations)

Industry Analysis Report（IAR）

Science & Technology Analysis Report（STAR）

产品与产业分析报告 （PIAR）

Re-Combining Disciplinary Students’ Cognitive Habits

Digital Publishing Workflow

Modularized Technologies

WindowFarm IntelligentBag IoTSandbox

Arduino移动电源GPS模块

Arduino移动电源GPS模块

Arduino移动电源通信模块

PM2.5监测模块温度监测模块甲醛监测模块湿度监测模块

照明模块太阳能电池模块警报系统模块手机通信模块

棋子运送模块棋子位置感知模块网页棋盘模块手机控制模块

Concept Generation

Resource Planning

Coordi-nation

Engineering Refinement

Content：Project-based Learning Cycles

Institutionalized Mechanism：The Four Motivating Forces

Metrics：Process Data and Learning Analytics

A Crowd Learning Behavior Model

Market Deployment

Tsinghua and MIT’s Otto Scharmer

Innovation needs multiple tiers of awareness

A Social Technology for Coordination

https://www.presencing.com/ego-to-eco/social-evolution

MediaWiki for Knowledge Sharing

Learning Outcome Interview Data

•  Use a WeChat/WhatsApp like program to collect data•  Manually organize data based on Subject-Verb-Object sentence

structure

Create

Evaluate

Analysis

Apply

Understand

Memorize

BloomTaxanomyinChinese

Visualize Behavioral Data in Bloom’s Taxanomy

Learning Process Data (Gource)

Simulate Crowd Learning

Tsinghua’s 3E Metrics

• Effective (Binary)

• Efficiency (Ratio)

• Efficacy (Useful?)

Effective (Binary) •  Creativity and Critical Thinking often needs be

judged in a Contextualized Environment.

Challenge Designers Creates the

Contextual Environment

Mission Executors Judges

whether the Challenges are useful

How XLP measures Effect

Let students participants in the design of learning activities

They become responsible for creating effects

Efficiency （Ratio）

•  Can XLP be replicated？

•  Can we calculate the efficiency？

•  Can efficiency be maximized using technologies？

Tools helps Efficiency

•  After running XLP-based programs for many times, we realized that Efficiency is Ruled by Tools

Efficacy （Usefulness）

•  Fernando Reimers’ proposition：–  Move Mindset Designers (School of Education)

–  In between School of Business and School of Engineering

Usefulness is often

Judged byinteraction

Talent Recombination

•  Type A：Strategic Thinkers and Policy Makers

•  Type B：Technology and Infrastructure Operators

•  Type C：Knowledge Management ProfessionalsBusiness Executives

Israeli Chip

Designer 华尔街日报， 路透社记者

Wall Street and Reuter Reporters

Demo Product

Web Platforms

Media Events

Modeling Tools (Programming

Languages, AutoCAD,

PhotoShop, InDesign)

Prototyping Tools (Lego, Makeblock)

Content Distribution Protocol (Git)

Data Collection Devices (Cameras,

Microphones, Input Devices)

Story Boarding (PowerPoint) Time Tables

(SmartSheet)

635 Method

Mission Statement

Multi-Level Design Contracts (XMind)

Resource Planning

Generate Idea

Content Exchange

Product Dev.

XLP: a “Digital”Competency Program in the Internet Age

Discussion

•  Creative Educational Institutions are: •  Flexibly and Globally re-organized

•  Creativity comes from Re-Combination •  adopting de-centralized “meet-up” formats •  student-directed and designed “courses”

•  Integrative skills must be attained in “developmental” modes

•  The final outcome of integrative products/services are the most direct measurement of entrepreneurship capabilities

Conclusion

•  Creativity comes from encounters of mindsets, technologies, and applications

•  Shared Project Goals enables students to practice Constructive Criticism

•  The ABC Curriculum cultivate creativity and critical thinking on the Organizational LevelA.  Senior Executive and Government Officers

B.  Leading Technologists and Providers

C.  Application Specific Projects