Critical Thinking
The process of breaking information into parts, examining and evaluating those parts, and making connections for the purposes of gaining understanding, solving a problem, or making a decision.
Analysis
To generate new ideas that may bring about change.
Creative thinking
"Don't think. Just do."
Maverick, Top Gun
Use knowledge learned in one situation in another/new situation, usually in real life.
Apply
Which level is this? A: I still don't get it. B: Think of it like this: bla bla bla
Understand
Raw material for thinking. Another word for "data".
Information
Letting your mind wander to come up with different ideas or answers. Coming up with as many ideas as possible towards a goal.
Brainstorming
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Hint: Greek.
Aristotle
To be able to explain information, processes and events, beyond accepting them at face value.
Understand
Which level is this? "This part of the process/story/problem is caused by XYZ".
Analyse
A set of connected ideas, supported by examples and evidence, made by a writer to prove or disprove a point.
An Argument
Is creativity/creative problem-solving applicable in all subjects?
Yes
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Hint: Chinese
Confucius
When you are designing or solving a problem, you are using the highest level of thinking.
"create"
Which level is this: "Which of these options offers the best solution and why?"
Evaluate
Facts, expert opinion, research findings, personal experience and such, that are used to support a claim/idea. (These items support an argument.)
evidence
One of ways to analyze which involves noting resemblances and dissimilarities between two or more things.
Compare and contrast
"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” Hint: African American
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
"Assess" or judge solutions by looking carefully at potential pros and cons of each, and choose what seems best.
Evaluate
Which level is this: "What is another instance where we can observe this theory?"
Apply
A lens through which we think about people, situations, events, and ideas. One's point of view.
Perspective
A type of prediction; a "what-if" question often created before an experiment.
hypothesis
“My father used to say ‘Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.'” Hint: South African
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Thinking skills are also called
Cognitive skills
Bloom's taxonomy shows...
Higher order thinking skills