Discovery Stream
Promoting innovation, creative thinking, and responsible decision making in a variety of contexts.
Workshops in the discovery stream focus on the following skill areas:
Perspective Taking
Students will be able to:
- Identify the value of alternative perspectives and ideas.
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of alternative perspectives and ideas.
- Evaluate questions or problems by considering the history of the problems, reviewing logic/reasoning, examining feasibility of solutions, and weighing impacts of solutions.
Curiosity
Students will be able to:
- Seek out and identify the value in new and unusual information or questions.
- Engage in and find value in inquiring, investigating and testing new information or ideas.
- See the value in life-long learning.
Information Literacy
Students will be able to:
- Apply creative thinking, systems thinking, reflective thinking, and/or strategic thinking to explore questions and/or ideas in original ways.
- Access information online (e.g., using databases and search engines) and offline (e.g., community sources).
- Distinguish among information grounded in experience, expertise, and/or authority.
- Evaluate the credibility of information and manage conflicting information.
Risk Taking
Students will be able to:
- Identify when they are risk averse.
- Identify the consequences of taking a risk and/or potential failure.
- Think about risk in positive and negative terms.
- Seek out and follow through on untested directions or approaches.
- Learn from their mistakes.
- Manage stress and failure to build their resiliency.
Decision Making
Students will be able to:
- Identify the difference between their personal goals, what they are able to do, and what is right to do when making decisions.
- Identify and be sensitive to contextual factors to make responsible decisions.
- Propose multiple solutions to a single question or problem.
- Make decisions in situations where there is no defined "right and wrong".