How to Identify Challenges I

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How to Identify Challenges I

• Future Problem Solving Training

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How Can You Become More Creative?

• By Learning Skills
• And Practicing Them

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The First Step in FPS

• In Math you are given a Problem and asked to find
  a Solution.
• In FPS you are given a Situation and asked to
  find the Problems.
• The FPS word for Problem is Challenge. The FPS
  word for Situation is Scene.
• Finding many Challenges in an FPS Scene is the
  first step.

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The First Step in FPS

• You will want to read FPS Scenes with paper and
  a pencil ready to catch all of your ideas.

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The First Step in FPS

• There are 5 more steps to FPS but I want you to
  get really good at Finding Challenges before we
  go on.
• (Be sure your Challenges arent really Solutions
  3.)

• The six-step Future Problem Solving model
• Identify Challenges in the Future Scene
• Select an Underlying Problem
• Produce Solution Ideas to the Underlying Problem
• Generate and Select Criteria to Evaluate Solution
  Ideas
• Apply Criteria to Solution Ideas
• Develop an Action Planhttp//www.fpsp.org/

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The First Step in FPS

• FPS Scenes are usually pretty detailed.
• To get good practice at quickly finding
  challenges, lets start with some Newspaper
  Headlines from Aug. 15 in USA Today
• Dont worry if you are not sure about the issues.
  Just be able to justify your work according to
  what you think they are.

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Find 5 Challenges For this Newspaper Headline

• NASA orders shuttle astronauts to cut spacewalk
  short

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Here are my 5 Challenges

• Too little time, too much to do
• NASA is too bossy
• Astronauts enjoy long space walks
• Shuttles are too small
• Spacewalking is dangerous

• NASA orders shuttle astronauts to cut spacewalk
  short

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Find 1 Solution for each Challenge

• Too little time, too much to do
• NASA is too bossy
• Astronauts enjoy long space walks
• Shuttles are too small
• Spacewalking is dangerous

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Here are my Solutions

• There is too much to do Give them fewer tasks
• NASA is too bossyArrange for better training for
  NASA bosses
• Astronauts enjoy long space walks Make space
  suits uncomfortable
• Shuttles are too smallMake shuttles larger
• Spacewalking is dangerous... Take space guns along

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Can you see how each answer only makes sense for
the challenge it addresses?

• There is too much to do Give them fewer tasks
• NASA is too bossyArrange for better boss
  training
• Astronauts enjoy long space walks Make space
  suits uncomfortable
• Shuttles are too smallMake shuttles larger
• Spacewalking is dangerous... Take space guns along

Which Challenge do you think NASA would take
seriously?
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USA Today

• You can go to this site to see what the real
  problem was USA Today Article

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Find 5 Challenges for this Headline

• 3 pygmy whales beached in South Carolina

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See if you can find 3 challenges for each of
these headlines.

1. Indiana State Fair bans trans fats
2. Tropical Storm Erin forms in Gulf
3. Home sales off 11 but prices show positive signs

• A. 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• B 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• C. 1.
• 2.
• 3.

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The First Step in FPS

• For more practice, pick up todays Times-News.
• Choose an interesting Headline, perhaps one that
  you know a little about.
• See if you can find 5 Challenges for that
  Headline.

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You are on your way to Many great Ideas!