223. Puzzles vs. Problems

2022-04-18

What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon, & 3 legs at night? A very peculiar dog! …wait, was that not the answer? Why is it that puzzles are so different from real-life problems?

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Instructional design models for well-structured and ill-structured problem-solving learning outcomes (Jonassen, 1997) - http://www.davidlewisphd.com/courses/EDD8121/weeklys/1997-Jonassen.pdf

Figuring the Riddles of Adventure Games - https://www.aestheticsofplay.org/papers/tronstad2.htm

Hotel Concierge — The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment - https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment

Cognitive processes in well‐defined and ill‐defined problem solving - Schraw - 1995 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.2350090605

Cognitive Dissonance During Engineering Design (Purzer, Hilpert, and Wertz, 2011) - http://archive.fie-conference.org/fie2011/papers/1170.pdf

Wisdom in Context (Grossman, 2017) - https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jhoey/teaching/cogsci600/papers/Grossmann_PPS_2017.pdf

Moving Beyond Formulas and Fixations: Exploring Approaches to Solving Open-Ended Engineering Problems - https://peer.asee.org/moving-beyond-formulas-and-fixations-exploring-approaches-to-solving-open-ended-engineering-problems.pdf

Who Ya Goima Call? Thoughts About Teaching Problem-Solving (Bramsford, 1994, CH 10) - https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED364997.pdf

PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITIES (Chi & Glaser, 1983) - https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA134717.pdf Instructional design models for well-structured and ill-structured problem-solving learning outcomes

solving problems vs. solving puzzles - Unity Forum - https://forum.unity.com/threads/solving-problems-vs-solving-puzzles.507045/

that many of the more active minds among those so trained sooner or later react violently against the deficiencies of their education and develop a passion for imposing on society the order which they are unable to detect by the means with which they are familiar. (Hayek 1952, p. 102)

Problems and Puzzles - https://flm-journal.org/Articles/5D5C4F89C72C475E2ADC170399790A.pdf

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