The document discusses different types of thinking and thinking skills. It describes analytical, convergent, divergent, lateral, and creative thinking. Thinking skills include collecting and analyzing information, problem solving, decision making, and reflecting. The document discusses two approaches to teaching thinking skills: the skills method which directly teaches thinking processes and the infusion method which embeds these skills in the regular curriculum. It also discusses the importance of creativity, critical thinking, and using both critical and creative thinking in problem solving.
Critical thinking is a intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualising, applying, synthesising and evaluating information gathered by observation, experience, reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.
Critical thinking is a intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualising, applying, synthesising and evaluating information gathered by observation, experience, reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.
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Introduction to Critical Thinking SkillsHanis Razak
Definition of critical thinking, core critical thinking skills, asking questions, characteristics of critical thinkers, standard for critical thinkers and exercises.
Cultivating Critical Thinking in ClassroomSaima Abedi
Critical thinking skills are necessary to succeed in education or in the workplace. Therefore, this ppt aims to foster independent thinking, personal autonomy and reasoned judgment in thought and action by elucidating in-depth understanding of the concept and its importance. It will help participants to explore more about Blooms taxonomy and compose well-structured instructional objectives for development of cognitive domains. Lastly, I will share assessment techniques that can be unquestionably adjusted in any lesson plan as effective measurement tools for critical thinking skills.
On the importance of critical thinking skills and how to teach them - presented at the eLearning Consortium of Colorado (eLCC) Conference, April 18, 2014 - Breckenridge, CO
Creativity isn't just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We all have the ability to be excellent creative thinkers. - https://www.milestechnologies.com
This slideshow was created with images from the web. I claim no copyright or ownership of any images. If a copyright owner of any image objects to the use in this slideshow, contact me to remove it. This is for a course in Introductory Psychology using Wayne Weiten's "Psychology: Themes and Variations" 8th ed. Published by Cengage
Learn more about Innovation and Creative problem-solving at https://www.digitalsurgeons.com/thoughts/
Creativity isn't a discipline for just designers. Ideas and creativity should come from everyone regardless of their role. Creativity can be taught and I've been heavily inspired by Tina Seelig and Tony Schwartz's presentations at the 2013 Behance ideas conference. They both provided jaw-dropping looks into how they see the creative process, which I will never look at the same way again.
That journey inspired me to prepare this presentation which is my attempt at teaching and spreading this infectious process to others who might not understand how creativity works or can find use from such information.
Unique solutions come from innovative problem solving. Having a framework is critical.
Insight. First find and define the problem.
Saturation. This is the information gathering phase chock full of research. Most designers hate this phase because it isn’t “creative” in their mind. From my perspective, the designers I respect most are all about saturating themselves in data and inspiration.
Incubation. This is where you walk away from ideas and thinking altogether, which Schwartz refers to as “thinking aside.” He explains that when you shut your mind off, your brain is able to spark the best creativity, which is why ideas pop in your head during a shower, while walking in nature or when you are dreaming. This is often an area I totally ignored since I’ve never really had the luxury of time, but one I’ll be looking to learn and apply in my ever-changing creative process.
Illumination. This is one step we are likely all familiar with. The infamous a-ha moment that stops you in your tracks.
Verification. This is the point where things start coming together; the part where you make it real. This part reminds me of the great scientists of history having an idea, testing it and learning from it.
Learn, modify and repeat. That being said, creativity isn’t supposed to be easy, as Cal Newport points out, it takes a level of deep work and focused intent to develop skills and solve problems. Malcolm Gladwell talked about 10,000 hours being the time it takes to master a task. Nonetheless, we have scientific data to back how the brain learns things.
Ideas are nothing without execution.
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Introduction to Critical Thinking SkillsHanis Razak
Definition of critical thinking, core critical thinking skills, asking questions, characteristics of critical thinkers, standard for critical thinkers and exercises.
Cultivating Critical Thinking in ClassroomSaima Abedi
Critical thinking skills are necessary to succeed in education or in the workplace. Therefore, this ppt aims to foster independent thinking, personal autonomy and reasoned judgment in thought and action by elucidating in-depth understanding of the concept and its importance. It will help participants to explore more about Blooms taxonomy and compose well-structured instructional objectives for development of cognitive domains. Lastly, I will share assessment techniques that can be unquestionably adjusted in any lesson plan as effective measurement tools for critical thinking skills.
On the importance of critical thinking skills and how to teach them - presented at the eLearning Consortium of Colorado (eLCC) Conference, April 18, 2014 - Breckenridge, CO
Creativity isn't just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We all have the ability to be excellent creative thinkers. - https://www.milestechnologies.com
This slideshow was created with images from the web. I claim no copyright or ownership of any images. If a copyright owner of any image objects to the use in this slideshow, contact me to remove it. This is for a course in Introductory Psychology using Wayne Weiten's "Psychology: Themes and Variations" 8th ed. Published by Cengage
Learn more about Innovation and Creative problem-solving at https://www.digitalsurgeons.com/thoughts/
Creativity isn't a discipline for just designers. Ideas and creativity should come from everyone regardless of their role. Creativity can be taught and I've been heavily inspired by Tina Seelig and Tony Schwartz's presentations at the 2013 Behance ideas conference. They both provided jaw-dropping looks into how they see the creative process, which I will never look at the same way again.
That journey inspired me to prepare this presentation which is my attempt at teaching and spreading this infectious process to others who might not understand how creativity works or can find use from such information.
Unique solutions come from innovative problem solving. Having a framework is critical.
Insight. First find and define the problem.
Saturation. This is the information gathering phase chock full of research. Most designers hate this phase because it isn’t “creative” in their mind. From my perspective, the designers I respect most are all about saturating themselves in data and inspiration.
Incubation. This is where you walk away from ideas and thinking altogether, which Schwartz refers to as “thinking aside.” He explains that when you shut your mind off, your brain is able to spark the best creativity, which is why ideas pop in your head during a shower, while walking in nature or when you are dreaming. This is often an area I totally ignored since I’ve never really had the luxury of time, but one I’ll be looking to learn and apply in my ever-changing creative process.
Illumination. This is one step we are likely all familiar with. The infamous a-ha moment that stops you in your tracks.
Verification. This is the point where things start coming together; the part where you make it real. This part reminds me of the great scientists of history having an idea, testing it and learning from it.
Learn, modify and repeat. That being said, creativity isn’t supposed to be easy, as Cal Newport points out, it takes a level of deep work and focused intent to develop skills and solve problems. Malcolm Gladwell talked about 10,000 hours being the time it takes to master a task. Nonetheless, we have scientific data to back how the brain learns things.
Ideas are nothing without execution.
Classroom Styles as Discerning and Constructivismijtsrd
Constructivism improves thinking skills, statement and social talents, encourages unusual methods of appraisal, helps student's removal skills to the real realm and promotes intrinsic inspiration to learn. Discerning and Constructivism are the big notions in education. Their inferences for how educators teach, and study to teach are immense. Rather than getting ‘knowledge' from professionals in training periods, teachers and executives will have to team up with peers, academics, and their own scholars to make intellect of discerning and constructivism. Merely then we can convert our nation, via education, into an attentive, critical, scientific area, imbued with the desire for truth and for total social prosperity. If we want a futurity that is much more solicitous, vastly more compliant, greatly more concerned, and a lot more amorous, then we have to devise it. The prospect is in our schools, schoolrooms and humanity today. Ameer Bee Mirza Abdul Aziz Baig "Classroom Styles as Discerning and Constructivism" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd47538.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/47538/classroom-styles-as-discerning-and-constructivism/ameer-bee-mirza-abdul-aziz-baig
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Taking a psychometric approach to developing a tool for measuring values attr...Alison Hardy
The Subject Values Instrument for Design and Technology Education (SVA-D&T) is a 28 item (statements) tool for measuring the values people attribute to design and technology education (D&TE). In our presentation we will describe the mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) validation processes involved in the develop of the SVA-D&T, alongside and some preliminary data. We will also explain why the SVA-D&T is needed by researchers and curriculum planners.
Valuing design and technology education Alison Hardy
Selected slides from a presentation for colleagues at FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland on Monday 10th December.
My talk is in 3 parts:
the influence and origins of our values
the value of D&T education
design fiction as a response to an enduring value of D&T
Presentation given at D&TA East Midlands branch meeting on Monday 27th November.
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I gave an overview of D&T education in the UK, and discussed the value of D&T. We ran out of time for the design fiction section.
The visit was funded by the UCET Travel scholarship (http://www.ucet.ac.uk/scholarships).
Many thanks to the UK based D&T teachers who shared photos of their D&T classrooms.
Rhetoric and interpretation: values attributed to D&TAlison Hardy
This research compares special interest groups’ and students’ rhetoric about the value of Design & Technology (D&T) in England, specifically in relation to learning about technology, employment and creative endeavors.
Drawing upon the Design and Technology Association (D&TA) campaigns and interviews with students, I identify the values these two ascribe to D&T. These values will be compared with the values implied in the English National Curriculum for D&T: the current version (Department of Education, 2013b) and previous iterations since its inception into the National Curriculum in 1990.
Analysis of the two groups’ values demonstrates a disparity between the two groups’ views of the value of D&T. Whilst D&TA and students concur on some values, there are noticeable differences. Generally, students place greater emphasis on D&T’s value to their everyday lives, future employment, and personal fulfillment, whereas the D&TA campaigns focus on how D&T engenders both personal and national economic benefits; creativity is valued by both groups but in different ways. These findings imply a discord between them about the contribution D&T makes to an individual’s education and future life.
By comparing the values of these two stakeholder groups, who have no direct power to influence the enactment of government policy (Williams, 2007), this research provides an insight to some of the potential divergences that may occur as D&T teachers, who do have the power, interpret the National Curriculum using D&TA’s materials to advocate the value of D&T to their students. This research could help other special interest groups explore how D&T is valued and how they lobby government for future curriculum change.
The next stage to this study is to explore how the D&TA’s rhetoric about D&T, and the values discovered in this study, are enacted in classrooms.
Defending the marginalised school subjects - UCET2016 presentationAlison Hardy
Secondary school subjects that have been consigned to 'bucket 3' in the new school performance measures, such as D&T, music, art and design and PE, are noting a decline in GCSE numbers. Reasons for this decline can be attributed, in part, to the Ebacc and their exclusion from it (see http://www.baccforthefuture.com) but other reasons include new curricula and GCSE specifications, budget cuts and changes to teacher training.
In this presentation I will explore the potential impact of teacher training changes on one of these subjects, D&T. As school teachers have an increasing role to play in training the next generation of teachers - does it matter what value they place on their subject? what might be lost if university-based subject specialists have less involvement in teacher training? These questions are relevant to all marginalised subjects that need defending.
This presentation is for undergraduate students on BSc Design and Technology Education at Nottingham Trent University.
The session considers the philosophy of technology, where students learn about Carl Mitcham's different approaches to technology (artifacts, knowledge, processes and volition). Through learning about these four approaches they begin to think about consequences for their D&T teaching - realising that D&T is more than 'design and make'.
Following this session the students research an emerging technology (see www.dandtfordandt.wordpress.com for more details), using Mitchum's four approaches to critique how emerging technologies can be taught in schools.
Hardy Patt2016: An assortment box of D&T valuesAlison Hardy
Abstract
Views about the value of Design and Technology (D&T) to students, the economy and society are diverse, occasionally exaggerated, and usually conflicting. For example: is D&T a subject with specialised knowledge? A subject that applies knowledge from other subjects? A vocational subject? A subject to meet the country’s economic needs? Or a subject to develop good citizens?
These conflicting views were brought to the fore when the review of the English National Curriculum proclaimed that D&T has an insufficient disciplinary coherence (Department for Education, 2011). Strong, disciplinary coherent subjects have a clear form of knowledge and are favoured by the current UK government. Subjects with disciplinary coherence have strongly defined boundary between itself and other subjects (Bernstein, 2000), and strongly defined knowledge that is ‘sacred … not ordinary or mundane’ (Bernstein, 2003, p.73).
In response to this review, and other challenges, the Design and Technology Association (D&TA) has run two campaigns to ‘fight’ for D&T to be recognised as an important and essential part of the school curriculum (Design and Technology Association, 2011; 2015).
But D&TA has not systematically investigated how D&T teachers and their students, the activators and receivers of D&T, perceive the subject’s purpose and coherence. This paper uses Bernstein’s (2000; 2003) concepts of classification and framing to analyse the perceptions of these two groups. Their assorted views are different to D&TA’s campaign messages but as conflicting, and they concur with the curriculum review that D&T does not have a strong disciplinary coherence.
The conclusion suggests how this analysis could inform future D&TA campaigns and suggests that by addressing D&T’s specialised knowledge and the contribution D&T makes to students 21st Century Skills is not lost but strengthened.
D&TA Summer School Teaching for the contextual challengeAlison Hardy
NTU slides from the 'Working with Contextual Challenges at GCSE' Workshop at D&TA Summer School 2016.
Images of NTU students' work and IDEO cards for use in design and technology
What do others think is the point of D&T? PATT29Alison Hardy
What do others think is the point of design and technology education?
As a result of a national curriculum review in England (Department for Education [DfE], 2011), a new curriculum for design and technology (D&T) is being taught in secondary schools from September 2014 (Department of Education [DoE], 2013a). This curriculum is compulsory for a decreasing number of schools; two potential consequences are the nature of D&T in secondary schools changing to reflect local perceptions of the subject and maybe D&T being removed from the curriculum completely. The pressure on D&T’s curriculum content is likely to come from different stakeholders such as senior school leaders, D&T teachers, and pupils. D&T school departments could respond to this pressure by adapting the curriculum to popularise the subject or produce high exam results with a consequence that much of the subject’s value is lost.
This paper reports on a small research project conducted in two secondary schools where stakeholder representatives were interviewed to identify their values of D&T. These different stakeholders were interviewed using the active interview method (Holstein & Gubrium, 1995), coded following Aurebach and Silverstein’s method (2003) and their values compared to Hardy’s values framework (Hardy, 2013b). Analysis shows most stakeholders believe a key value of D&T is to provide ‘practical life skills’ (Hardy, p.226), whilst only one recognizes that learning in D&T involves ‘identifying problems to be solved’.
The outcomes from the research are being used to support critically reflective conversations within both D&T departments (Zwozdiak-Myers, 2012) framing their evaluation of their local curriculum and making changes to their curriculum.
This paper is being presented at PATT29 on Friday 19th April 2015
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2. Types of thinking
0 List as many different types of thinking you can think of
in 2 minutes based on your reading for this session
3. Two kinds of thinking
0 analytical
0 convergent
0 vertical
0 probability
0 judgement
0 focused
0 objective
0 left brain
0 verbal
0 Linear
0 critical
0 generative
0 divergent
0 lateral
0 possibility
0 suspended judgement
0 diffuse
0 subjective
0 right brain
0 visual
0 Associative
0 creative
4. What are thinking skills?
0 collecting information
0 sorting information
0 analysing information
0 drawing conclusions from the information
0 ‘brainstorming’ new ideas; creative thinking
0 problem solving
0 determining cause and effect
0 evaluating options; critical thinking
0 planning and setting goals
0 monitoring progress
0 decision making
0 reflecting on one’s own progress
5. Why are thinking skills important?
‘Should be an invitation to generalise, to
extrapolate, to make a tentative leap, even to build
a tentative theory. The leap from mere learning to
using what one has learned in thinking is an
essential step in the use of the mind. Indeed,
plausible guessing, the use of the heuristic hunch,
the best employment of necessarily insufficient
evidence; these are the activities in which the child
needs practice and guidance. They are among the
great antidotes to passivity’
(Bruner 1996, p. 126 in McGregor, 2007, p.12)
6. Lateral Thinking
Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de
Bono. It first appeared in the title of his book The
Use of Lateral Thinking (1971). De Bono defines
lateral thinking as methods of thinking concerned
with changing concepts and perception. Lateral
thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately
obvious and about ideas that may not be
obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step
logic.
7. Lateral Thinking
“Lateral thinking is closely related to creativity. But whereas
creativity is too often only the description of a result, lateral
thinking is the description of a process. One can only admire a
result but one can learn to use a process…
Lateral thinking is concerned with the generation of new ideas.
There is a curious notion that new ideas have to do with
technical innovation. This is a very minor aspect of the matter.
New ideas are the stuff of change and progress in every field
from science to art, from politics to personal happiness.”
(De BONO 1971)
8. How can thinking skills be taught?
0 Specifically designed programmes
(the skills method)
0 Embedded in the curriculum
(the infusion method)
0 By chance
(the traditional method)
Examples from your reading?
9. The skills method
“…the ways in which cognitive and social
skills that pupils use, often unconsciously, in
the process of learning, are deliberately
emphasized. These programmes aim, in
different ways to, make more explicit the
thinking processes and skills needed for
learning.”
(McGregor 2007, p.100)
10. Examples
0Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment
0Cognitive Research Trust (CoRT): de Bono
0The Somerset Thinking Skills Course
0Cognitive Acceleration through Science
Education (CASE)
0Philosophy for Children (Lipman & Fisher)
11. The infusion method
“Swartz et al. (1998: 528) describe how
`infusion' is the approach that teachers use
when blending explicit instruction about
thinking skills and processes with content
instruction. It involves pedagogic approaches
that enhance students' thinking and
comprehension of the subject matter.”
(McGregor 2007, p.125)
12. A possible framework
McGuinness (1999) proposes that a general framework for
teaching thinking should include:
0 making thinking skills explicit in the curriculum
0 adopting a coaching style to teach thinking
0 operating within a metacognitive perspective
0 developing collaborative learning in both face-to-face and
computer-mediated learning
0 encouraging good thinking habits or general dispositions
0 generalising the framework beyond a narrow focus on special
skills to encompass the whole curriculum and concepts of
‘thinking classrooms’ and ‘thinking schools’.
13. Creativity and intelligence
‘Creativity is also not confined to special activities such as,
painting a picture, composing a poem, choreographing a
dance or sculpting a figure. These activities require
diligence and persistence as well as creativity. Scientists,
technologists, business people, educators, in fact anyone
can be creative in the things that they do. The innovation
of new techniques, new products, new selling strategies,
new approaches to preparing for examinations are all ways
these people can be creative.’
McGregor 2007, p.170
14. Critical and creative thinking
‘By its very nature, critical thinking is
concerned with critiquing something
already in existence and creativity is
concerned with generating something
new, not previously available to
critique.’
(McGregor 2007, p.172)
15. Creativity and problem solving
‘In problem solving situations learners may
seesaw between critical and creative
thinking, going back and forth in the
generation of ideas, critical reflection of
suggestions and subsequent refinement,
modification or regeneration of further
innovations until a suitable solution is
reached.’
(McGregor 2007, p.173)
16. Defining thinking critically
‘Thinking critically is the mental act of
reviewing, evaluating or appraising
something (including a picture, play,
information, evidence, or opinion) in an
attempt to make judgements, inferences or
meaning about that something in a rational,
reasoned way.’
(McGregor 2007, p.209)
17. Critical and creative thinking
‘Skilful critical thinking may also require
skills that could ‘Unwieldy
be deemed more creative
and may be referred to as critico-creative
thinking, for expression’
example, generating criteria by
which to judge something or refining,
modifying or improving an idea.’
Fisher 2011, p.14)
(McGregor 2007, p.209)
18. References
0 DE BONO, E., 1971. The use of lateral thinking.
Harmondsworth: Harmondsworth : Penguin.
0MCGUINNESS, C., 1999. From thinking skills to thinking
classrooms.
0 McGregor, Debra. 2007., Developing Thinking;
Developing Learning. [online]. Open University Press.
Available from:<http://www.myilibrary.com?ID=112953>
6 October 2013
Editor's Notes
Where do your fit? Do you agree?
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