I am fortunate to be spending the day in a workshop in Canberra
with Lee Crockett, global educational leader and author of
"Literacy Is Not Enough". Davey Crovckett - no relation His
model of 21st Century Fluencies considers the following 5
fluencies: SO, we were considering Solution Fluency, which Lee
has divided into 6 steps, or phases, in a cycle: Then we were
presented with the task - build the tallest tower you can using
newspaper and tape. You've probably done this with kids before.
Immediately, we grabbed for the paper and tape, totally forgot
about the 6 D's, and built a tower. I did try to suggest to the
gathered 30 or so teachers that maybe we could all collaborate,
to produce one big tower, rather than several small ones. Got a
few laughs - and 3 people came and joined their group to ours.
Our group very cleverly headed up the stairs to get a height
advantage, defining "tallest" as meaning "height above sea
level". Here's out final tower - something went wrong at the
top. Here's another finished pr