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Annotating future scene

• Find and highlight as many possible challenges as you can

  • They don't ALL have to be big challenges

  • They should all be distinct

• Find the PURPOSE

  • Crucial for the UP

  • Typically at the bottom of the future scene

How To Create Challanges

Required elements
• Link to future scene (logical relationship)
• The challenge itself
• Why the challenge is a challenge

Essentials
Must come from information in future scene
Either a cause or a consequence
Stated as a possibility (may, might, could)

​Scoring Challanges

• Fluency (the number of likely challenges)
••••••(Y) Yes (likely to exist or occur)
••••••(P) Perhaps (possible but not likely)
••••••(S) Solution (solution rather than challenge)
••••••(D) Duplicate (similar in context to another challenge)
••••••(W) Why (did not originate in future scene)
• Flexibility (the number of identified categories)
• Clarity (the quality of the written expression)
• Originality Bonus (+3): rare and insightful

Mistakes to Avoid in Challenges
• Challenges unrelated to the Future Scene.
o Not everything learned about a topic will apply to the events presented.
• Underdeveloped Challenge ideas.
o Be mindful that each Challenge idea must include WHAT is the Challenge, WHY it is a Challenge, and HOW it relates to the Future Scene.
• Facts from the Future Scene.
o These are important starting points for Challenges. However, students need to expand beyond the information already provided.

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​Mistakes To Avoid

Things To Keep In Mind

• Consider the major issues in the Challenges.

• Select an issue that will have a major impact on the Future Scene as the emphasis of the Underlying Problem (UP).

• Be forward-looking and proactive, not regressive and reactive, in developing the UP.

• Write the UP in correct format, starting with the Future Scene conditions that are the basis or rationale for the idea.

• Indicate a desired action to be taken (Key Verb Phrase), purpose for the action (Purpose), and parameters (topic/place/time) tying the problem to the Future Scene

• Adding the UP to a generic concept. Adding the KVP or Purpose to a criterion does not change the concept being measured by the criterion.

• Too much information. Criteria must be singular in order to receive credit. Often as ideas are elaborated to Modify or Justify Generic concepts, multiple elements are introduced.

• Ambiguous. Remember the reason for Criteria. They are there to make a decision. If their meanings are ambiguous, they cause decision making to be more difficult.

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​Mistakes To Avoid

A UP is stated as one question containing four basic components
 The condition phrase
 The stem + KVP
 The purpose
 The future scene parameters

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A UP must have the following:

Example of a UP for food distribution

Example UP for Food Distribution:
Because genetically-modified fish eggs grow into faster maturing, higher-protein fish, how might we increase the probability that these super fish will continue to provide a edible food source so that the Poseidon Corporation can continue to distribute food to the impoverished countries of Africa and South America in 2065 and beyond?

​What do You need in UP?

 Who will be responsible for putting this solution into practice  What will they actually be doing in the solution
 How or why will they accomplish their plan
 (Optional) When and where will the solution happen
 For a solution to be counted as an elaborated solution, it needs to include three of the four—who, what, why or how.

• Solution ideas that do not have a clear connection to the Key Verb Phrase and Purpose of the Underlying Problem.

• More information may be needed to make the connection.

• Solution ideas that are not related to the Underlying Problem. Remember Step 3 is a direct response to the goals (KVP and Purpose) identified in Step 2.

• Statements that do not describe a Solution Idea OR the idea is unclear.

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​Mistakes To Avoid

Open Ended

Make a solution on the UP:

Because genetically-modified fish eggs grow into faster maturing, higher-protein fish, how might we increase the probability that these super fish will continue to provide a edible food source so that the Poseidon Corporation can continue to distribute food to the impoverished countries of Africa and South America in 2065 and beyond?

NOTHING TO SEE HERE GO AWAY

• Too many goals.
o Identify a single Key Verb Phrase and a single Purpose for a successful UP.
o Each Solution idea in Step 3, must address all elements of the UP.
• Absolute verbs.
o Absolutely accomplishing something may be is the most desirable thing, but it very hard to achieve. While improving or reducing something are much more attainable.
• No reason for taking action.
o Without a Purpose, there is no reason for implementing Solution ideas.
• Fix the whole thing.
o Students should synthesize the information to identify a single area of concern from the Future Scene. Restating all the issues of the Future Scene in the UP is a critical error in the problem solving process.
• Moving beyond the Future Scene.
o Students are tasked with responding to the situation they are provided with, not moving outside of it, or undoing it.

​Mistakes To Avoid

​How to do Step-5

1. Select the most promising Solution ideas (8 for teams, 5 for individuals).
• List them on the Evaluation Matrix.
2. Compare the Solution ideas.
a. Consider one Criterion at a time (1 per column).
b. Rank each of the Solution ideas 1 (low) to 8 (high) against the others for that Criterion. c. Use each number once in each column.
• Repeat this comparison process for each Criterion.
3. Add the ranks across the rows and enter the totals into the final column of the grid.
4. Use the Solution idea with the highest points as the basis for the Step 6 Action Plan

Continued...

Be realistic: When comparing Solution ideas honestly consider how they compare to each other for a given Criterion. The Criteria were developed to guide this decision, considering five different concepts. Apply them accurately to the Solution ideas to identify the best overall Solution to become the Action Plan.
Best, then worst: In ranking each Solution idea against a Criterion, it may be easier to determine the best Solution ideas and then the least effective Solution ideas. Then work to the middle.
Break ties: If, after completing the grid, there is a tie for the highest scoring Solution, the tie must be broken. Only one Solution idea can be the basis for the Action Plan

• Not truly the best Solution: If the highest scoring Solution idea does not represent a good or logical plan to address the Underlying Problem, it is usually because:

  o The Criteria are not adequate.

  o The favorite Solution idea is being mistaken for the best Solution.

• Don’t manipulate the grid: Using the grid appropriately will determine the best Solution to be the basis of your Action Plan.

• Inaccurate mathematics: Double-check addition to be sure that the best Solution is accurately identified.

​Mistakes To Avoid

More about it

​Continued...

• Plan how the best Solution can be implemented.

• Describe the actions and steps of the plan.

• Explain why the plan fulfills the Criteria.

• Clearly state how the plan will address the Underlying Problem and impact the Future Scene.

​And More...

• who, what, how, why, where and when of your action plan.

• Who will carry out the plan or be involved?

• What will be done to solve the problem – when will results begin – will it continue?

• ​ How does it positively impact the future scene?

• How does it positively impact the topic?

• Where will the plan be implemented?

• How will the action plan be carried out?

• How does it positively impact and solve the UP?

• Why will this positively impact the future scene?

• Mistakes to Avoid in the Action Plan Only restating the Solution idea.

• The Action Plan should elaborate well beyond the initial idea presented in Step 3. Claiming perfection.

• It is okay, and even encouraged to admit that the Action Plan is not perfect. Acknowledging obstacles provides an opportunity to explain your Action Plan in more depth. Combining multiple Solutions.

• It is acceptable to incorporate aspects of other Solution ideas to support or expand the Action Plan. However, these need to be incorporated only as support, not the focus of the Action Plan.

​Mistakes To Avoid

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