The Path to Invention

Invention Activities: A Path to Expertise

To help prepare our students for future learning, we have developed and refined various innovative instructional methods for the first-year physics lab at UBC. One such method is the invention activity. In this article, invention activities are introduced and guidelines for their creation are presented.

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The structure of invention

This paper explores the process by which radically novel technologies – ones such as radar, the turbojet, or the polymerase chain reaction – come into being. It shows that this process – “invention” – has a certain logical structure common to all cases. Invention is a process of linking some purpose or need with an effect that can be exploited to satisfy it. It may begin with a purpose or need ...

Choosing the Right Path: Image Schema Theory as a Foundation for Concept Invention

Image schemas are recognised as a fundamental ingredient in human cognition and creative thought. They have been studied extensively in areas such as cognitive linguistics. With the goal of exploring their potential role in computational creative systems, we here study the viability of the idea to formalise image schemas as a set of interlinked theories. We discuss in particular a selection of ...

Field of the Invention

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