Teaching Note for Fictional Case Study Articles in the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal
Introduction
The fictional case study articles in the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal (https://indooraircartoon.com/) can be used as resources to enhance teaching and learning, primarily by developing the cognitive abilities needed for effective problem-solving.
Who can use it?
The Indoor Air Cartoon Journal serves both as a pedagogical tool and as a source of indoor air quality (IAQ) educational content. Its fictional case studies can be integrated into any academic module, particularly those focused on design, communication, and problem-solving.
Thus, professors or educators in any discipline or department can use the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal to:
— Enhance education of learners through cognitive pathway development, including mental model formation, question generation, cognitive transformation, and conceptual understanding, all directed toward practical and complex problem-solving in a value-oriented manner.
— Teach learners human-centric, systems, and sustainability thinking as foundational approaches to developing effective, value-oriented solutions for practical and complex problems.
— Guide learners in developing capabilities in story writing and storytelling, with the aim of using these skills to enhance their cognitive abilities, including critical and reflective thinking, abstract reasoning, logical deduction, and creative imagination.
— Foster learners’ personal development by exploring narratives of human challenges and flaws, thereby cultivating self-developed capabilities for solving life’s problems.
Reflective questions for reviewing each fictional case study article
The following questions may be provided to learners to guide their analysis of fictional case study articles from the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal.
— What mental model(s) have you formed from the given fictional case study article that set the stage for curiosity?
— What questions have the mental model(s) help you generate?
— Could you demonstrate how the generated questions influence your development of cognitive abilities – including critical and reflective thinking, abstract reasoning, logical deduction, and creative imagination?
— In what ways have the developed and demonstrated cognitive abilities deepen in you the understanding needed for solving highlighted problems in the fictional case study article?
— How can the understanding you have developed from the fictional case study help you solve IAQ problems in your everyday life?
— In what ways does the given fictional case study article illustrate human-centric thinking, systems thinking, or sustainability thinking that can serve as a foundation for effective solution development for practical and complex problem-solving in a value-oriented manner? Do you have any ideas on how these approaches could have been presented or integrated more effectively?
— What lessons can be learnt from the given fictional case study article about what it takes to overcome the flaws or challenges faced by the protagonist? If you were experiencing similar flaws or challenges in your own life, what efforts would you make to address them, what obstacles would you anticipate, and how would you plan to overcome those obstacles?
— How could you personally use the fictional case study article as a resource to help you develop your own skills in story writing and storytelling? In what ways do you think improving these skills might enhance your cognitive abilities, such as critical and reflective thinking, abstract reasoning, logical deduction, and creative imagination?
Other use
Learners in the animation education programme may use the fiction stories in the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal as inspiration and source material for their animation assignments or projects. However, explicit permission must be sought from Dr Moshood Olawale Fadeyi before using any of the fictional case study articles from the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal to develop animation videos.
