How to Identify Challenges

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How to Identify Challenges

• Future Problem Solving Training
• Part II

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The First Step in FPS

• Another place to find challenges is a fable.
• You can choose any part of the fable to find a
  challenge.
• You can even combine parts of the story to see
  challenges.

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• Click on http//www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi
  ?1TheAntandtheGrasshopperantgrass2.ram to read
  The Ant and the Grasshopper.
• Be sure to write down the challenges you see as
  you read. Try to find 20 of them.

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• Find someone else that is doing this assignment
  and borrow some of their answers if you cant
  find 20 right off.
• Two heads really
• are better than one!
• In FPS we encourage
• you to work with others
• but be sure to give them credit.
• Write their initials at the end of the line that
  has their idea.
• Sometime you can start with one of their ideas
  but then finish it another way. This is called
  Piggybacking.

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Here are some challenges I found for this Aesops
Fable.
6. How can the grasshopper come up with a more
attractive diversion than chatting? 7. How can we
get the grasshopper to use a lower vocabulary
(moiling) so the ant would better understand his
options. 8. How can we get the grasshopper to
see himself as part of a group with goals?

• 1. How can we move the ant to the city?
• 2. How can we get farmers to plant ant-sized
  corn?
• 3. How can ants be convinced to store something
  else?
• 4. How can we teach the grasshopper a work ethic?
• 5. How can we get ants to store corn closer to
  the field?

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• 9. How can we get the grasshopper to value
  storing food?
• 10. How can we teach the ant more diplomacy?
  Kindness? Tact? Understanding?
• 11. How can we get the grasshopper to visualize
  winter without food?
• 12. How can we get the grasshopper to understand
  the shelf-life of food?
• 13. How can we get the grasshopper to find winter
  food?
• 14. How can we get the grasshopper to dialogue
  with other insects?
• 15. How can we help the grasshopper find kinder
  friends.
• 16. How can we help the grasshopper understand
  the welfare system?
• 17. How can we get the grasshopper to raid the
  ants supplies?
• 18. How can we create simulation game so the
  grasshopper would get the idea before almost
  dying?
• 19. How can we make sure the grasshopper doesnt
  see eating ants so he can die in peace?
• 20. How can we teach the grasshopper more about
  life cycles so he would know how grasshoppers
  differ from ants and not get his hopes up for his
  kind?

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• Where some of my ideas different than yours?
• Hopefully by now you are starting to see that
  there is not one right answer.
• Later we will find solutions and make plans.
• For now, which of all the ideas you created or
  got from others would be the most fun to work on?

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The First Step in FPS

• For more practice, click on this site
  http//www.aesopfables.com/aesop1.html
• Choose a fable with an interesting moral of the
  story.
• See if you can find 20 Challenges for that Fable
• This assignment will be much easier if you do it
  with friends.