Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees: all can be used to organise thought. This free course, Extending and developing your thinking skills, will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of understanding.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Overview
- 1 Overview
- 2 Understanding the importance of thinking skills
- 2 Understanding the importance of thinking skills
- 3 Different kinds of thinking
- 3 Different kinds of thinking
- 3.1 Thinking in a higher gear
- 3.2 Looking at the thinking a further education course involves
- 4 A thinking disposition and the process of development
- 4 A thinking disposition and the process of development
- 5 Other people
- 5 Other people
- 6 Questions
- 6 Questions
- 7 Giving structure to thinking
- 7 Giving structure to thinking
- 7.1 Hierarchies of ideas
- 7.2 Other ways of structuring thought
- 7.3 Systematic approaches
- 7.4 Visual tools
- 7.5 Mind-maps
- 8 Analysis, argument and critical thinking
- 8 Analysis, argument and critical thinking
- 8.1 Balanced argument
- 8.2 Broadening perception
- 8.3 Academic arguments
- 9 Putting it all together
- 9 Putting it all together
- Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
