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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. Indeed, interdisciplinary training exposes students to many diverse perspectives, which previous studies suggest may lead to more innovative solutions and more powerful cognitive development. They sure do!

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. In his view, there was hope for every child.

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