To comprehensively understand the complicated and diverse world, the communication and interaction of different and endless thought are needed, and these ability is achieved through convergence program that aims at something new. The comprehensive abi...
To comprehensively understand the complicated and diverse world, the communication and interaction of different and endless thought are needed, and these ability is achieved through convergence program that aims at something new. The comprehensive ability that enables to create up-to-date knowledge and solve complicated problems is recognized as essential factor of future leaders.
The character of gifted students are highly expected to as future leaders is interest on the diverse fields, high grasp about complex notion, and the creative thinking skill and behavior. The necessity of convergence education for gifted students is gradually raised for the developing their ability to high level.
Design is the convergence study needs the thinking skills and technical skills that cross the boundaries of various studies for completed design result. The purpose of design thinking process is to achieve creative result through dissemination of knowledge and interaction of thinking among various ones.
The research which catch up with the stream of times developed the convergence program through design thinking process for the purpose of improving convergent thinking ability and problem solving ability (The following is design thinking convergence program). This completed program is applied to elementary gifted students based on the assessment of five experts consist of pedagogics professors and gifted resource teacher, and mainly evaluate the formation process of convergent thinking skill and the interest and satisfaction of class.
The object of research is elementary school twenty grade 4,5 students (eleven male students and nine female students) of after school gifted student class of Seobu District Office of Education in Seoul and the class which lasts for 320 hours at eight times a two weeks. The research result that design thinking convergence program for the elementary students is developed and applied is as follows.
First, the thinking skill and problem solving ability is improved and their convergent thinking skill is formed through design thinking convergence program deals with the subject of " traffic". The comprehensive thinking skill is the one that several knowledge are combined and efficiently utilized. The main thinking flow of design thinking process is the sequences of problem comprehension, problem solution, plan, application, and assessment and thinking skill is improved through the interaction of divergent thinking and convergent thinking in this process. Students create diverse idea, collect it by using conceptual knowledge, and apply it to final result by thinking comprehensively on this process.
Second, their study interest and self-confidence are enhanced and curiosity is created about the fields that they don't know. They are very interested in new subject of traffic and solve the problem confidently during the class. In particular, humanities and social science students are interested in new fields such as mathematics, science and design that they don't experience during the class.
Therefore, they who have interest in wide range of field, and creative thinking and behavior improve, utilize, and apply convergent thinking through diverse studies in the design thinking convergence program. The researchers suggest the consideration and improvement of follow-up study based on the development and application process of design thinking convergence program as follows.
First, the development and research of convergence program consists of diverse class subject is necessary as their convergent thinking skill is improved through it. This program is applied to not only humanities and social science students but also the students of different fields such as mathematics, science, and art and don't separate the class because its subject cross the boundaries of various studies. In addition, the expected effect about their creative result is anticipated through problem solving process based on convergent thinking and their advantage and disadvantage are offset together. As a result, its utilization and value for gifted students are very high if diverse convergence program is developed.
Second, various assesment tools that measure their convergent thinking skill must be developed to evaluate the effect of convergence class. The researchers perceived that convergent thinking skill was created and creative result was achieved based on it. However, we had difficulty in understanding when thoght convergence was happened in some ways in their brain. As a consequence, various assesment tools that evaluate the forming process of convergent thinking skill based on the thinking phase. Especially, we think that the follow-up research on the difference between the knowledge formation and thinking formation of convergence class and those of general class is necessary.
Third, the cooperation of teachers who are specialized in diverse fields is essential because it is the convergence of various studies. The researchers majored in science and design jointly, but not specialized in other fields such as humanities and social science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. As teachers have their major and interesting fields, the cooperation of their professional knowledge contributes to the improvement in convergence class program contents and gifted students class level.