Chapter 5 Problem Solving

This chapter touches on what I had expressed the previous class, about how our primary and secondary schools are doing a disservice to their students by producing graduates who can't get jobs in the real world. In a technological age, where information is literally at our fingertips, it is more important that we know how to synthesize, apply, contextualize and interpret the information. For me the smartest people I've met are the people who are able to contextualize and who see the connections on the larger fabric of the issue at hand and who can carry their concept through these connections and bring it to life for their listeners. It's not what your know or how much you know but how you connect/use/apply the info. People who are able to carry you through their connections are transcending, as our their ideas. Relation and connection are often taken for granted because our world has become so technologically connected and social, yet the ability to relate and connect ideas are still fundamentals skills for handling de-contextualized information.