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. Narayana
Vice President, BS&CC, TCS
Chair, IEEE Hyderabad Section
mgpln@ieee.org
Venue: Taj Krishna,
Hyderabad
8th May, 2011
“Children enter school as question marks
and leave as periods”
- Neil Postman
How to make children learn just as they play?
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“ 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
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Barriers - Mental Locks to Creativity
The attitudes that get in our way.
– “The Right Answer”. “You mean I can put a different
disk in the computer? You are
– “That is not logical”.
kidding.”
– “Follow the rules”.
-A user who kept the
same floppy in her computer for over a
– “Be Practical”.
year, 1993
– “Avoid Ambiguity”.
– “To err is wrong”.
– “Play is Frivolous”.
– “That is not my area”.
– “Don’t be foolish”.
– “I am not creative”.
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Socratic Teaching
The capacity to ask the right question.
The ability to listen carefully to the
meaning behind the answer.
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Motivation
 Extrinsic Motivation
 Intrinsic Motivation
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What is intelligence?
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.
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Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
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
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The Seven Da Vincian Principles
Curiosita – Unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
Dimostrazione – Test knowledge through experience,
persistence, learn from mistakes
Sensazione – 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
Design Thinking
Analytical Thinking
100% Reliability
Intuitive Thinking
50/50 Mix
100% Validity
From Roger Martin’s “The Design of Business”
Engineering Versus Science
Scientists
– 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 costeffective 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
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Building on Experience
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes”
- Oscar Wilde
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.
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Experience
Reflection
Conceptualization
Experimentation : Innovate
The design-science learning cycle
Create
Design
Design
Connect to
Big Ideas
Evaluate
Outcome
Generate
Reasons
Generalize
Results
Science
Analyze
Results
Test
Ideas
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Source: Adopted from Apedoe etPageal,
Engineering in the Higher Secondary Classroom
Broad objectives & Purpose of TISP
Develop & Present technology-oriented projects to local
school educators
Emphasis on volunteer-teacher interaction
Sustained program involving several schools every
year.
To enhance technological literacy of school educators
To establish partnerships to promote applied inquirybased learning.
To expose teachers to career options for their students
in engineering and other technical fields.
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Appreciation is must,
Build the trust
Customer is first,
Do our Best
Empower the most,
Freedom to last.
- “ABCDEF” Song
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