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How do you know what you know? Everything you know about thinking skills
Thinking skills
In a recent lesson, are there times when using the Circle Map might have helped?
In a lesson that you are going to deliver quite soon, is there an occasion when you might use the Circle Map?
Better learning will come not so much from finding better ways for the teacher to INSTRUCT...
CONSTRUCT.
Seymore Papert, 1990
The
overwhelming need for learners is for meaningfulness we do not come to understand a subject or master a skill by sticking bits of information to each other.
Understanding a subject results from perceiving relationships. The brain is designed as a pattern detector. Our function as educators is to provide our students with the sorts of experiences that enable them to perceive patterns that connect.
Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain (1994), Caine & Caine
PEANUTS
BY: SCHULZ
The Neo~Cortex: This is where the higher order thinking skills such as problem solving take place. Here the brain works out patterns and meaning. The Limbic System: This is the seat of emotions and long term memory. We remember best when our learning has emotion and meaning. The Reptilian Brain: This part of the brain looks after basic survival. Under stress the Reptilian Brain blocks the Neo~Cortex and the Limbic System from thinking and remembering ~ learning is slowed down or prevented.
You have a million, million brain cells, 167 times the number of people on the planet! Each brain cell is more powerful than a standard personal computer.
Lost
Long
Emotion
Meaning
Term
Memory
Building
Networks
Networks Strengthened
Lost
Networks Extended
What are
Based on intelligence research, Thinking Maps combine the cognitive thought processes of learning with the visual representation of information found in graphic organizers
When implemented on a whole school basis, Thinking Maps provide a consistent and brain compatible way for teachers to present information, and for students to learn and retain it.
Thinking Maps is not a curriculum, but rather, a set of tools to allow teachers to present their existing curriculum in a more meaningful way.
Thinking Maps is a language of eight visual patterns each based on a fundamental thinking process.
40% of all nerve fibres connected to the brain are linked to the retina
Brainstorm Webs
Mind Mapping Webbing Clustering Concept Mapping
Thinking Maps
Defining in Context
Describing Compare & Contrast Classifying
For Students
For constructing knowledge by forming patterns of information For transferring thinking processes to content learning For creating final products and promoting metacognition
Visual Tools
Thinking Maps
READING?
WRITING? SCIENCE?
MATHS?
GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY? In every instance, you could use a: FLOW MAP
Visual Tools
Visual Tools
THINKING PROCESS:
My frame of reference
Science kit
Circle Map
Help plants Lives in soil Tube shaped body
slimy
Need moisture
earthworms
2,700 kind
Lay eggs
Vibrations Teacher
Nocturnal
Books
Mathematics
Like reading
I can be cheeky to some teachers
loud musical
Bharti
Fun to be with
Our classroom chair table door Our bags Height of coat hook
whiteboard
floor
Table leg
pencils
arms radiator
books
desk
School keeper
whiteboard
floor
Table leg
pencils
arms radiator workman
books
desk
teacher
Adjectives Only!
Task ~ using a Bubble Map, describe Cinderella The frame of reference is Through the eyes of the ugly sisters
Science
lazy
Bharti loud
Under achieving
Bharti
noisy
chatty
lazy
Ralph
logical pragmatic
NOTES:
Unique: Common
Alike: Different
Differences
Similarities
Colour Code
Think/pair/share
Mice
Step daughter
goose
Step Daughter Younger
Cinderella
Fairy God Mother
Old lady
Married prince
Shoe In hut
By Marisa
Biology