Problem Based Everything

To me, PBL or Problem Based Learning , Is like figuring out how the microscope works before using it to study the microscopic life on the slide.

It is difficult and demands a lot of hardwork.

In both the reading that Adrian gave to me and Adrian's talk itself, I discovered that both indicated that learning should involve a shift of paradigm.

Adrian called it horizon of understanding. I call it paradigm.

Solving any problem should involve a paradigm shift, which should improve oneself by allowing a self-awareness during the shift ; We see where we once were and where we are now. Since improvement of oneself is a subjective evaluation, One needs to realize how solving the problem has changed oneself rather than just the subject.

In my reading, the writer describes that a designer's task is problem-solving.
He goes on to describe how it happens in three stages

1. Problem Stating
2. Problem resolution processes
3. The resolution that is the consequences of these processes.

Archer (the author being quoted) suggests that it is our "Cognitive Modeling Capacity" that makes a capable of the design activity.
It seems to me that this is the ability to imagine anything in 3D within the imagination. No matter how improbable, the imagination can exist within the mind.

But it is not so much the objects we create within our minds, but the meaning we give to it.

We are Semantic Creatures.