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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".

 

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