I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

Design thinking, with its focus on problem-solving in a structured way, can help ready students for the workplace – and doesn’t require a curriculum overhaul, writes Asrif Yusoff ...

First principles thinking is a method of problem-solving that involves breaking down complex issues into their most basic and fundamental parts. Originating from ancient Greek philosophy and ...

Concerned that high schoolers aren’t learning enough critical thinking and problem solving, the education nonprofit and assessment developer Council for Aid to Education Inc. (CAE) has updated its ...

Do you have children of school age, and currently looking for a school to enrol them? As parents, there are a multitude of factors which need to be considered when searching for a school suitable for ...

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Rapid prototyping processes, part of design thinking, can lead to an abundance of fresh ideas. In last week’s column, we shared how biopharmaceutical company AbbVie uses design thinking to humanize ...

In a previous post, I mentioned briefly what the Australian philosopher David Chalmers has called the hard problem of consciousness. In Chalmers’s own words: “Consciousness poses the most baffling ...

Those are the types of questions that might bombard you when you’re overthinking something. Rather than accept what happened or trudge forward with a certain degree of uncertainty, overthinking can ...

The world today is marked by paradox. Never before has humanity possessed such extraordinary scientific knowledge, ...