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Do you have courage Do you have courage and self-confidence and self-confidence and trust your own and trust your own
judgment?judgment?
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Do you keep up with Do you keep up with your field and also your field and also learn about things learn about things
outside your outside your specialty?specialty?
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Do you think of many Do you think of many ways for problem ways for problem solving and avoid solving and avoid rigid patterns of rigid patterns of
doing things?doing things?
Solve the nine dot problem
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Do you use Do you use trial-and-error methods trial-and-error methods
in your life and neverin your life and nevergive up easily?give up easily?
Success
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Actual Learning Curve
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Take “Creativity Test” online http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110299/interact/interact.php
On this web page, click THE CREATIVITY TEST
The aim of this test is to see how creative a person you
are.
• There are 40 questions in this test. In the end, after you summit the answers, you can get the result and know how creative you are.
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Reference: www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/strategy/Creative.htm
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Instruction• In this activity, you are asked to clarify
some important ideas about how to become an inventor.
• Try to finish the following tasks and then you can get a better idea.
– 1. Task about inventing steps
– 2. Task about brainstorming
– 3. Task about problem solving
– 4. Task about journal-keeping
A.manage it
E.design it
B.build it
C.try it
D.dream it
There are five steps when you invent.
Reorder those steps.
Brainstorming
• Brainstorming is a process of thinking used by an individual or by a group of people to come up with many different ideas.
• The following page gives some rules, but pick up those numbers that are CORRECT.
Pick up numbers that are rules of brainstorming
• When you brainstorm, you SHOULD…
2. say anything
1. encourage all ideas
4. think quickly 5. feel worried
3. evaluate any ideas
7. produce as many ideas as possible
6. criticize others’ ideas
When you brainstorm, you SHOULD…
2. say anything
1. encourage all ideas
4. think quickly
3. evaluate any ideas
7. produce as many ideas as possible
5. feel worried 6. criticize others’ ideas
About Problem-solving
• You need to develop the problem-solving ability so that when you invent something, you won’t give up easily when you are faced with difficult problems.
• Now, reorder the steps of problem-solving in the next page.
More tips about invention
• Long before Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent application in 1875, Daniel Drawbaugh said that he had invented the telephone. But since he had no journal or record, the Supreme Court rejected his claims. From this story, what lesson have you learned?
You are right!!
• You should keep an Inventor’s Journal to prove that you are the first person that invents a new product.
Rules for Journal Keeping• Make notes about things you do and learn
while working on your invention.
• Record your ideas and how you got it.
• Write about problems you have and how you solve them.
• Write in ink and do not erase.
• Add drawings to make things clear.
• List all parts, sources, and costs of materials.
• Sign and date all records at the time they are made and have them witness.
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Reference: ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/probsolve.shtmlhttp://www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/closed/Unstuck/unstuck.htm
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