Thinking toolbox 1

• 1. Brainstorming
  The Question
  What if?
  The Reverse
  Developing a Thinking Toolbox
  ManTar ICT Cluster Workshop 1
  Exploring strategies and tools for developing creative and critical thinking
  

2. Aims
To learn more about thinking strategies and skills
To gain some practical classroom ideas
To discuss which thinking strategies and tools could be used at each level of the school
To share ideas about facilitation and to prepare a staff meeting workshop
3. 4. 5. Knowledge is now a processnot a thingKnowing how to do something is more valuable than memorising information
21st Century life is about learning new skills, not new content.
Success depends on learning new skills and applying them.
What do you (and your students) need to learn when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse click away?
6. What doyour students need to memorise?Discuss
7. Key Competencies

• Thinking

8. Relating to others 9. Using language symbols and texts 10. Managing self 11. Participating and contributingDefining these for your school.
What is Thinking? Discuss
12. Thinking is about using creative, critical and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas.
These processes can be applied to purposes such as:

• developing understanding

13. making decisions 14. shaping actions 15. constructing knowledge(NZC Page 12)