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Thinking Skills Activity: Analysis

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 23rd, 2006%

ANALYSIS 3 Bob Valiant, 04 April 2004

Thinking Skill Emphasized: ANALYSIS

Analysis of your own perspectives is a powerful form of thinking.

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Thinking Skills Activity: Hypothesizing

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 23rd, 2006%

HYPOTHESIZING Bob Valiant, 15 March 2004

Thinking Skill Emphasized: HYPOTHESIZING

Hypothesizing may be used either in an attempt to generate potential causes for an event or to predict the outcome based on a given set of circumstances.

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Thinking Skills Activity: Detecting Patterns

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 23rd, 2006%

Detecting Patterns Bob Valiant, 15 March 2004

Thinking Skill Emphasized: Detecting Patterns

Detecting patterns is an important skill that helps us recognize ways to organize data that is seemingly chaotic.

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Thinking Skills Activity: Interpreting Statements

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 23rd, 2006%

INTERPRET STATEMENTS Bob Valiant, 15 March 2004

Thinking Skill Emphasized: INTERPRET STATEMENTS

When we are given new information it is necessary to pay close attention in order to determine its meaning.

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Thinking Skills Activity: Creating

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 23rd, 2006%

CREATIVITY Bob Valiant, 15 March 2004

Thinking Skill Emphasized: CREATIVITY

Creating a new product involves using previously learned skills in new ways.

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Using 21st Century Skills

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 16th, 2006%

Elsewhere on this web site we document what experts believe will be the basic skills of the 21st Century. For example the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory has identified digital-age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication, and high productivity as the new basics. Closer examination of these four skill areas indicates a concentration of skills generally . . . → Read More: Using 21st Century Skills

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Creating a Collaborative Conception: Facility Futures: by Bob Valiant

By Dr. Bob Valiant, on May 13th, 2006%

Introduction

In this era of top-down reform and rapid change in many aspects of education, facility planning might be likened to completing a jigsaw puzzle of a motion picture while the film is still running. Before the pieces for one image can be put in place the projector has moved to the next frame. . . . → Read More: Creating a Collaborative Conception: Facility Futures: by Bob Valiant

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