5 Innovation Principles Course Methodology

Every assignment in the course follows successive patterns of cognitive exercises formatted in a template structure. Each section of the template steers a deductive reasoning process through a step-by-step exercise causing the mind to contemplate similar to gears of an engine. Each stage of the template functions as sequential deductive reasoning to consider and discern discreet information as representative of a holistic model.

Structure Of Assignments and Exercises

The program focuses on the principles of ingenuity to engineer and guide invention as a dependable and repeatable proficiency dedicated to discovering the unknown. The cognitive principles of thinking highlighted in the program are united by a methodical process throughout all assignments to structure understanding and train judgmental precision as precursor to action.

• Mission and Purposeful Deliberation: The first step to every skill exercise is to define the mission expected of the effort. Then gather as much information as possible about the situation to stimulate the brain beyond what is already known. The next step is to organize knowledge and discoveries into hierarchical categories called chunking. These categories are grouped in a sorted order and act as containers for data. This sequential organization of data supports a design thinking process of structured assessment that aligns information and choices into manageable step by step considerations. Every exercise encourages students to combine the expected with unrelated knowledge. This enables students to expand known thought beyond what is accepted by using correlations from irrelevant data to spark their mind to explore the unconventional and realize the unexpected.
• Deductive Reasoning: Is a type of critical thinking analysis of the details where specific conclusions of logic are drawn from facts. Example: If the premises are true, the conclusion is suspected to also be correct. Therefore, it is accepted that all canines have four legs, and a poodle is a dog, therefore it can be deduced that a poodle also has four legs.
• Sequential Deductive Reasoning: Involves patterns of thinking in stages where categories of an exercise are organized into hierarchical groupings. Each deductive reasoning of a category builds upon the preceding data while segueing to the next appraisal. This is a repetitive process of examination that eventually aligns details and categories into a holistic logic model. This process creates a chain of reckoning identical to gears of an engine where each cog supports the next. It helps enable an engineered understanding to discover the unknown.

Experiential Memory Retention: is distinct from factual memory, which is a linear process. It triggers holistic recall from analyzing and organizing the modeling of data within categories. This is regarded as episodic memory which exhibits holistic recollection, meaning that retrieving an aspect of an event often triggers lateral thinking to find correlations from previous deductions. This holistic retrieval stems from the way episodic memory binds together diverse elements of a novel experience into integrated awareness that retains facts into scalable application. This activity resides in an area of the brain called the hippocampus. The hippocampus acts as a temporary storage and processing center for experience and comprehension as they are encoded and transferred for long-term memory (12). This is the only area of the adult brain that grows new neurons called neurogenesis (13). Which implies… the understandings and methodologies experienced during the exercises help train students’ system thinking capabilities. This also reinforces their mind’s ability to retain and deploy the innovation course’s six cognitive skills to discern, design, and discover what has not been done before… and adapt.