Thinking Tools
What are Thinking Tools?
Thinking Tools support to visualize children’s thoughts and create their own idea.
17 types of Thinking Tools are available in LoiLo Note, and you can use them anytime you want.
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What is “Create idea”?
There are 3 steps when children create idea:
1. Come up with ideas
2. Outline an idea
3. Re-edit the idea and create own new idea.
Thinking Tools support these steps visualizing children’s thoughts.
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What is “Thinking skills”?
The process of thinking can be broken down into more concrete procedures, such as comparing, classifying, or predicting.
We use these procedures called “Thinking skills” to connect and structure our knowledge with the goal of gaining a deeper understanding of some ideas.
LoiLo Note provides Thinking Tools for following Thinking skills
Note: Click a title to know which Thinking Tool fits to the skill you want to use.
Rearranging multiple concepts according to certain perspectives or conditions.
Finding the similarities and differences between multiple concepts.
Grouping concepts based on certain shared characteristics.
Finding the relationships between multiple concepts. Finding other concepts related to a certain concept.
Focusing on the multiple characteristics of a certain concept, and/or thinking about it from multiple angles.
Finding or predicting the reasons behind, causes of, or evidence for something.
Using what is already known to predict what will happen in the future. Forecasting results.
Giving concrete examples that fit the high level concepts/rules related to a certain concept, and breaking the concept down into the low level concepts and components that it is made up of.
Discovering high level concepts and rules related to a concept, or combining multiple concepts into one.
Organize your ideas in a (web, layered, etc.) structure.
Simplify by narrowing down information to the most necessary parts.
Select a perspective and describe how something changes over time.
Download our booklet to learn more about thinking tools!! Training Guide
Check followings to know how to start to use Thinking Tools at your school.