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The 7 Transdisciplinary Cognitive Skills for Creative Education Representations of Real-World Phenomena: Modeling as a Transdisciplinary Formative Skill and Practice

The 7 Transdisciplinary Cognitive Skills for Creative Education : Representations of Real-World... [Late in the summer of 2013, Elon Musk set the Internet ablaze with a “napkin sketch” of the Hyperloop Alpha, his futuristic vision for mass transit (Christensen, 2013). Musk backed his rudimentary doodle with a 57-page memo where he aimed to keep “numbers to a minimum and avoid formulas and jargon” and apologized, “in advance for [his] loose use of the language and imperfect analogies” (Musk, 2013). The memo is a thorough, visually stunning and inspiring proposal for a high-speed mass transit line between Los Angeles and San Francisco wherein passengers travel at speeds up to 800 miles per hour above already existing highways. As The New Yorker magazine noted, “Musk has put forth a plausible idea that doesn’t require yet-to-be-developed technologies” (Friend, 2013). The memo and it’s 25+ visual sketches, drawings, and figures is, however, the blueprint for something much more impressive than a regional transit line. Instead, the memo presents a promising, innovative, and potentially transformative model that may completely redefine mass transit in the twenty-first century (Figs. 7.1 and 7.2).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The 7 Transdisciplinary Cognitive Skills for Creative Education Representations of Real-World Phenomena: Modeling as a Transdisciplinary Formative Skill and Practice

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Springer International Publishing
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© © AECT 2018
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978-3-319-59544-3
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51 –63
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10.1007/978-3-319-59545-0_7
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[Late in the summer of 2013, Elon Musk set the Internet ablaze with a “napkin sketch” of the Hyperloop Alpha, his futuristic vision for mass transit (Christensen, 2013). Musk backed his rudimentary doodle with a 57-page memo where he aimed to keep “numbers to a minimum and avoid formulas and jargon” and apologized, “in advance for [his] loose use of the language and imperfect analogies” (Musk, 2013). The memo is a thorough, visually stunning and inspiring proposal for a high-speed mass transit line between Los Angeles and San Francisco wherein passengers travel at speeds up to 800 miles per hour above already existing highways. As The New Yorker magazine noted, “Musk has put forth a plausible idea that doesn’t require yet-to-be-developed technologies” (Friend, 2013). The memo and it’s 25+ visual sketches, drawings, and figures is, however, the blueprint for something much more impressive than a regional transit line. Instead, the memo presents a promising, innovative, and potentially transformative model that may completely redefine mass transit in the twenty-first century (Figs. 7.1 and 7.2).]

Published: Jul 23, 2017

Keywords: Creativity; Creative Teaching; Transdisciplinary Thinking; Twenty-First Century Education; Thinking Skills; Modeling; Models; Multiple Representations; Creating Models of Ideas; Real-World Representations

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