See if you can solve the ethics and critical thinking puzzles Elon Musk's secretive LA private school is rolling out to its students by Andy Kiersz on Aug 23, 2018, 11:40 AM Advertisement
 - Elon Musk's Ad Astra school and educational software developer ClassDojo are introducing a set of "Conundrums" for elementary and middle school students.
- The Conundrums involve open-ended critical thinking and ethics challenges.
- They address questions that children may not normally encounter in a standard curriculum.
- ClassDojo shared a couple examples of the new Conundrums with Business Insider.
Elon Musk's secretive LA private school, Ad Astra, is adding a new tool to its curriculum. Educational software developer ClassDojo is partnering up with Ad Astra to develop a set of critical thinking puzzles called "Conundrums" that they'll release to teachers and students this fall. The Conundrums pose open-ended critical thinking or ethical problems for the students, who are then encouraged to discuss the issues among themselves and reason out a solution. They tend to pose somewhat more nuanced and complicated questions than most elementary or middle school curricula address. Here are a couple examples of the Conundrums, provided to Business Insider by ClassDojo: SEE ALSO: Everything about the way we teach math is wrong One of the conundrum exercises addresses issues of property rights. A group of cartoon characters discovers a dinosaur skeleton on a neighbor's land. 
Students are reminded to stay open-minded and respectful to each other while discussing the conundrum. 
The teacher's version of the app shows advice for helping students evaluate the task. 
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