Thinking+Creatively

creative thinking - coming up with innovative ideas
 * ways to verify a [calculated value, derived formula]
 * ways to determine a physical property or process variable ...
 * uses for [a specified object, a waste product]
 * ways to improve a [process, product, experiment, procedure, computer code]
 * real-world applications of a [theory, formula, ...]
 * safety or environmental concerns in [an experiment, a process, a plant]
 * flaws in a proposed design or procedure
 * benefits of doing something differently from how it is normally done

critical thinking - making judgments or choices and backing them up with evidence and logic


 * Critical thinking: Learner demonstrates critical thinking by assessing and evaluating perspectives, opinions and issues raised in the course.
 * Reflective learning: Learner demonstrates reflective practice by providing examples of how new topics relate to previous experience and provides examples of new things learned on the course.
 * Peer support: Learner provides peer-learning support by objectively evaluating a minimum of three of the same e-Learning activities of fellow students as assigned by the peer evaluation system.

Critical thinking (4 points)

Does the learner think critically about the topic at hand?

0 = Learner accepts things at face value without questioning or analysis 2 = Learner assesses perspectives and opinions gained from the course 4 = Learner assesses and evaluates perspectives and opinions and links this with own perspectives on the issue.


 * Meet the people who demonstrate Critical Thinking**
 * [|MacGyver] - from the TV show - a ficticious secret agent Angus MacGyver, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency. Educated as a scientist, MacGyver, resourceful and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences, he solves complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife.


 * Mark Watney - main character in the novel and movie The Martian


 * What's the problem?**
 * **Ask** * **Imagine** * **Design, Build** * **Improve**


 * That's engineering**

>.
 * Engineering ideas**

Challenges for you to work on...
 * Do It**


 * News, updates**


 * Learn more...**

..r0