For this project, you will identify a big idea or concept you are interested in developing. For example, you might want to build a smart sock or designing a site to show your love of LEGO. You are not producing the big idea but are identifying a range of skills required to develop the big concept and choosing a few to develop in isolation. The deliverable is a modified criteria A-D and a selection of teaching artifacts that demonstrate the learning.

Key Concept:

Development System

Global Concept:

Personal and Cultural Expression

Related Concepts:

Innovation

Statement of Inquiry:

Personal and Cultural expressions are opportunities for the development of systems that require innovating on smaller ideas.

Questions:

Factual:

1. What is a function?

2. What is an algorithm?

Conceptual:

1. Can all systems be broken into smaller subsystems?

2. What is the difference between innovation and invention?

3. What does it mean to remove complexity?

Debatable

1. Do you need to understand all parts of a system to use it?

2. It is always better to innovating on existing ideas than invent new approaches?

3. There is always a simpliest approach to solve a problem?

I.C.E.E.E

Innovation: How can you create something to express yourself?

Creativity: How can you take smaller ideas and combine them in a creative manner?

Entrepreneurial: How can you turn a passion into an opportunity? Should you?

Ethics: Are you free to develop products for communities you don't share a connection with?

Empathy: How can thoughtful communication of perspective help others empathize with different communities.

ATL's:

Subject Specific Skills Knowledge and Understanding

Thinking - Transfer Skills