Learning to THINK CAN WE TEACH TO TEACH

Learning to THINK

CAN WE TEACH TO TEACH?

CAN WE LEARN TO TEACH?

WE CAN LEARN TO LEARN

WE CAN LEARN TO THINK

LEARNING TO THINK

gift

If I do not have a gift, can I do nothing about it?

If my situation depends on social conditions, I can learn AND change them.

If my situation depends on social conditions, I can learn AND change them. • APTITUDES • SKILLS • ABILITIES

APTITUDE+TRAINIG=SKILL

WHERE DO WE USE THEM?

THREE DOMAINS • COGNITIVE DOMAIN • AFFECTIVE DOMAIN • PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN

WHERE DO WE USE THEM? IN DIFFERENT LIFESTYLES

THINKING STYLE=THE WAY ONE THINKS

THINKING STYLES • LEGISLATIVE • EXECUTIVE • JUDICIAL

WHAT IS THINKING?

• • • COGNITION MEMORY CONVERGENT PRODUCTION DIVERGENT PRODUCTION CRITICAL THINKING

CONVERGENT THINKING

CONVERGENT THINKING

Who proposed the Theory of Relativity? • A)Rutherford • B)Einstein • C)Kepling • D)Max Plank

DIVERGENT THINKING

CRITICAL THINKING: METAKNOWDELGE

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS • Understand the logical connections between ideas • Identify, construct and evaluate arguments • Detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning • Solve problems sistematically • Identify the relevance and importance of ideas • Reflect the justification of one´s own beliefs and values

• Divergent thinking is the ability to find as many possible answers to a particular problem. • Convergent thinking is the ability to find the best single answer to a problem

Convergent thinking: • • linguistic intelligence logical mathematical Spatial Kinaesthetic Musical Interpersonal Intrapersonal

Verbal linguistic intelligence

Logical Mathematical intelligence

Visual-Spatial intelligence

Bodily-kinesthesic intelligence

Musical intelligence

Interpersonal intelligence

Intrapersonal intelligence

DIVERGENT THINKING

Complexity

Curiosity

Elaboration

Flexibility

Fluency

Imagination

Originality

Risk-Taking

TECHNIQUES TO SIMULATE DIVERGENT THINKING

-Brainstorming

-Keeping a Journal

-Free. Writing

-Mind or Subject Mapping

Some mental flexibility exercises in order to improve creativity • Use your nondominant hand for brushing teeth, writing, using the remote. • Vary your usual routine. • Take a different way to work or class. • Seek out social stimulation, especially with people you don’t already know • Put your watch on the other wrist. • Turn pictures on your desk upside down

Some mental flexibility exercises in order to improve creativity • Randomly move your wastebaskets, stapler, penholder, etc. • Shop at different stores. • Vary your usual route through the school. • Look at magazines “written” for the opposite sex.

LATERAL THINKING

LATERAL THINKING Also known as Out Of Box Thinking

CRITICAL THINKING

CRITICAL THINKING • Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

CRITICAL THINKING • Set of skills to process and generate information • The habit of using those skills to guide beaviour

Questioning is the key to sound reasoning

NEVER STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!