IEEE Teacher In-Service Program Training Workshop On a path to introduce Engineering Literacy at Secondary School level, a perspective WELCOME ADDRESS.

IEEE Teacher In-Service Program Training Workshop

“ On a path to introduce Engineering Literacy at Secondary School level, a perspective”

WELCOME ADDRESS

M.G.P.L. NarayanaVice President, BS&CC, TCS

Chair, IEEE Hyderabad [email protected]

Venue: Taj Krishna, Hyderabad

8th May, 2011

2

“Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods”

- Neil Postman

How to make children learn just as they play?

3

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you

get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.”

- Robert Frost

4

Barriers - Mental Locks to CreativityThe attitudes that get in our way.

– “The Right Answer”.– “That is not logical”.– “Follow the rules”.– “Be Practical”.– “Avoid Ambiguity”.– “To err is wrong”.– “Play is Frivolous”.– “That is not my area”.– “Don’t be foolish”.– “I am not creative”.

“You mean I can put a different disk in the computer? You are

kidding.”-A user who kept the

same floppy in her computer for over a year, 1993

Socratic Teaching

The capacity to ask the right question.The ability to listen carefully to the meaning behind the answer.

Page 5

Page 6

Extrinsic Motivation

Intrinsic Motivation

Motivation

Page 7

The ability to solve problems that one encounters in real life.The ability to generate new problems to solve.The ability to make something or offer a service that is valued within one’s culture.

What is intelligence?

Page 8

Linguistic: Walt Whitman

Logical-mathematical: Albert Einstein

Spatial: Frank Lloyd Wright

Bodily-Kinesthetic: Michael Jordan

Musical: Mozart

Interpersonal: Mother Teresa

Intrapersonal: Sigmund Freud

Naturalist: Rachel Carson

Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

The Seven Da Vincian PrinciplesCuriosita – Unrelenting quest for continuous learning.Dimostrazione – Test knowledge through experience, persistence, learn from mistakesSensazione – The continual refinement of the senses, as the means to enliven experience.Sfumato – Willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.Arte/ Scienza – Balance between science & art, logic & imagination, “whole brain” thinking.Corporalita – Cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.Connessione – ..appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. “Systems Thinking”.

From “How to Think like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael J. Gelb.

The Predilection Gap

Analytical Thinking

Design Thinking

Intuitive Thinking

100% Reliability 50/50 Mix 100% Validity

From Roger Martin’s “The Design of Business”

11

Engineering Versus ScienceScientists – Understand why our world behaves the way it does (“laws of nature”)– Study the world as it is– Thinkers

Engineers– Apply established scientific theories and principles to develop cost-

effective solutions to practical problems Cost effective

– Consideration of design trade-offs (esp. resource usage)– Minimize negative impacts (e.g. environmental and social

cost) Practical problems

– Problems that matter to people – Change the world– Doers

Building on Experience

To make full use of the experiences of each assignment, identify ways in which one could do things differently, and better, in the future. Four-stage learning cycle that puts this

reflective process into a framework for action. – Experience– Reflection – Conceptualization – Experimentation : Innovate

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes” - Oscar Wilde

The design-science learning cycle

Page 13

CreateDesign

EvaluateOutcomeConnect to

Big Ideas

GeneralizeResults

GenerateReasons

TestIdeas

AnalyzeResults

Design

Science

Source: Adopted from Apedoe et al, 2009

Engineering in the Higher Secondary ClassroomBroad objectives & Purpose of TISP

Develop & Present technology-oriented projects to local school educatorsEmphasis on volunteer-teacher interactionSustained program involving several schools every year.To enhance technological literacy of school educatorsTo establish partnerships to promote applied inquiry-based learning.To expose teachers to career options for their students in engineering and other technical fields.

Page 14

http://www.ieeehyd.org/

Appreciation is must, Build the trust

Customer is first, Do our Best

Empower the most, Freedom to last.

- “ABCDEF” Song