Comments on: Covering Wicked Problems

By: Jason Krueger

Jason Krueger — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:02:49 +0000

This is one of the most thought provoking speech i have ever come acrossed.

By: Amy Shaw

Amy Shaw — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:02:12 +0000

Thanks Jay,
Wicked well is now my phrase of the week. Who’d have thought Harvard would have provided it.

By: Declaring where you’re coming from | The Paepae

Declaring where you’re coming from | The Paepae — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:13:08 +0000

[...] the introduction to his keynote speech ‘Covering Wicked Problems‘ at the 2nd UK Conference of Science Journalists, 25 June 2012 at The Royal Society, London. [...]

By: Caroline Grannan

Caroline Grannan — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:09:06 +0000

A perfect case in point is that I’m posting to object that it’s overly simplistic to make the blanket statement that “our public schools don’t work.”

As you say: “It is hard to say what the problem is, to define it clearly or to tell where it stops and starts.”

U.S. public schools work fine when they’re not struggling with the challenges of poverty; they work for students who have advantages and resources. (I’m stating where the problem stops and starts based on extensive familiarity — it’s hard for someone who’s not that familiar.)

In this particular case, the dynamics around the attempted solutions are complicated by the fact that many entities are proposing solutions, or claimed solutions, as a ploy to reap profits from the large amount of public money directed to public education. And other entities have a financial interest in supporting supposed solutions — support for the currently popular policies known as “education reform” is a litmus test for donors to political campaigns.

So this isn’t true about the wicked problem of public education: “No one has “the right to be wrong,” meaning enough legitimacy and stakeholder support to try things that will almost certainly fail, at first. Instead failure is savaged, and the trier is deemed unsuitable for another try.”

In education, solutions that aren’t working in the big picture (and that are known to the well-informed to be unworkable in the big picture) continue to be promoted, for fairly inexplicable reasons. Education isn’t only a wicked problem but an outlier wicked problem.

By: I, Science review: UK Conference of Science Journalists « Nicky Guttridge

I, Science review: UK Conference of Science Journalists « Nicky Guttridge — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:23:09 +0000

[...] is how Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU, began his keynote speech. He went on to detail what he called ‘wicked problems’, and discussed how we might go about [...]

By: Reviewed: UK Conference of Science Journalists | I, Science

Reviewed: UK Conference of Science Journalists | I, Science — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:41:10 +0000

[...] is how Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU, began his keynote speech. He went on to detail what he called ‘wicked problems’, and discussed how we might go about [...]

By: Down at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Information « Transmedia Journalism

Down at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Information « Transmedia Journalism — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:33:42 +0000

[...] and political damnation. But journalism suffers from what pressthinker Jay Rosen argues is a “wicked problem.” That means there is no one clear answer, and from the varying perspectives of all interested [...]

By: Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:54:57 +0000

A few days after my talk the New Yorker comes out with “Something wicked this way comes,” which is about health care reform as a wicked problem….

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/06/something-wicked-this-way-comes.html?currentPage=all

… which I also mentioned in my edge. org essay:

http://edge.org/q2011/q11_11.html#rosen

By: Dave Newton

Dave Newton — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:22:55 +0000

Brilliant. My light bulb’s on.

By: John Rigdon

John Rigdon — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:54:20 +0000

Well done, Jay. I learned a lot from you as I always do.