Problem Solving and Ghostbuster and Dances With Wolves
December 3rd, 2015

1. From STEM to STEAM - Ghostbusters, Negative Reinforcement studies by Dr. Peter Venkman, Coaching the Artist, Waggle Dancing Bees and Divergent Thinking, Mind-Sets, programming and troubleshooting and problem solving approaches, effort vs ability, rejecting or rising to challenges, ESP ability.

   Note that the STEM to STEAM PDF is annotated with suggestions and hints for how to connect up to Ghostbusters material.
   Of course, a BIC pen was used, in honor of BICTION!

2. Thursday, 12/03 handout for group exercise, to be elaborated and developed further.
   1. Figure 11.1. How we think diagram from Polya.

   2. Eric Maisel's Coaching the Artist Within handout and Venkman's "I'm studying the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability."

      Maisel Coaching Programmer/Problem Solver Within 5 page PDF instead of 1 page reduced size.

   3. GOAL-DIRECTED LEARNING diagram and handout with more ideas/reflections on problem solving by Polya.

   4. ghost.txt Ghostbusters ideas resource.

   5. waggle.txt Waggle Dancing Bees ideas developed in Ghostbusters context.

3. Peter Elbow handout required: Old Ghostbusters and Problem Solving Assignment from Computer Skills and Concepts class in spring 2007.

4. ESP.pdf handout from previous semester.

5. Polya Handout on The Working of the Mind and How we think. Prevision and Eureka experiences. Piercing the clouds.

1. Take home exam task from 5 years ago: Dec 8th, 2010 resources. Flocking birds, schooling fish, migrating wildebeasts.

2. Flocking birds, free writing, Peter Elbow, Jurassic Park, ...

   Peter Elbow: Elbow1.jpg and Elbow2.jpg (inventive fecundity).

   Polya: The Coming of the Idea - Seeing the light.

   Polya: Three Polya PDFs from December 2011.