Ideas for Helping Children Learn Deep Thinking Skills – At Home

- Encourage children to self-evaluate their skills and progress they are making, whether at studies, sports or even a video game- Have discussions where they can justify their self-beliefs. Give alternate perspectives to facilitate deeper thinking. Explain possible downstream consequences of different options.- For these discussions think of topics that are topical, fun and interesting for your child.- At my son’s school 10 year olds were given the topic, “Should would-be parents be asked to…

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Introduction

IntroductionCritical Thinking Skills are essential for success in the 21st century. This 60 minute multimedia learning content introduces basics of Critical Thinking skills.

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Visual Fluency Skills & Problem Solving

LIST OF GOOD LEARNING RESOURCES FOR 21ST CENTURY TRAINERS AND LEARNERSI will share resources that are relevant for 21st century skills and will keep adding to my list.1. Solving Problems with Pictures – Books by Dan Roam 21st century skill covered: Visual Communication , Problem SolvingBooks: The Back of the Napkin, Unfolding the NapkinWebsite: http://www.thebackofthenapkin.comLectures: Authors@Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuA_yz7aTo0 According to Dan the overall Visual Thinking Process = Look > See > Imagine > Show The Visual…

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20th vs 21st Century Education – The Difference

20th century education was focused on providing basic cognitive skills and a stockpile of knowledge. You chose an area where job possibilities were bright, gathered knowledge and were set for life.Today you don’t change several jobs you change several careers!21st century education needs to be different because rate of change is so rapid that just keeping up-to-date in any domain is a challenge. You also need to make sure that your skills don’t become obsolete…

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Saber Tooth Curriculum

A 1.25 mts audio-visual sum-up of the book 'The Saber Tooth Curriculum' by J Abner Peddiwell. The story highlights why it is essential to acquire new skills when the context or the conditions change, but how we resist change because it is difficult to change our mindset.

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