Thinking Tools
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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.
1. Ordering
Rearranging multiple concepts according to certain perspectives or conditions.
2. Comparing
Finding the similarities and differences between multiple concepts.
3. Classifying
Grouping concepts based on certain shared characteristics.
4. Thinking laterally
Finding the relationships between multiple concepts. Finding other concepts related to a certain concept.
5. Thinking from multiple angles
Focusing on the multiple characteristics of a certain concept, and/or thinking about it from multiple angles.
6. Giving reasons
Finding or predicting the reasons behind, causes of, or evidence for something.
7. Predicting / Broaden / Plan learning / Analyze
Using what is already known to predict what will happen in the future. Forecasting results.
8. Thinking Specifically
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.
9. Generalizing
Discovering high level concepts and rules related to a concept, or combining multiple concepts into one.
10. Structuring
Organize your ideas in a (web, layered, etc.) structure.
11. Summarizing
Simplify by narrowing down information to the most necessary parts.
12. Noticing changes
Select a perspective and describe how something changes over time.
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Training Guide
Check followings to know how to start to use Thinking Tools at your school.
Thinking Tools Training Guide
Curriculum-related Training Guide