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Visual thinking guides
From WikIT
Exploratree hosts a set of interactive thinking guides. This is a free web resource where you can use the guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups. It is aimed at schools and students, but has ideas for thinkers of all ages.
Interactive map: Flash (recommended)
Contents |
Exploratree
Here are some of the overall categories, names of individual diagram type and an indication of their purposes.
Click the thumbnail to see a full-size image. Click the caption under the thumbnail to be taken to Exploratree's interactive page for that diagram.
Develop ideas
Lotus blossom
Create lots of ideas around an issue then turn ideas into actions
Examine ideas
Investigate evidence and other views then make new ideas
Use the essence
Get to the heart of the issue then look for new ideas
Possible futures
Think about the way an issue may develop in the future
Solve problems
Knowing trees
Think through a question and identify supporting evidence
Reverse planning
Work backwards from the ideal future to a realistic present
Is / is not
Scope a problem by identifying what it is and is not
Complete reversal
Reverse a problem to stimulate new thinking when stuck
Digging up roots
Explore a problem by digging down to its roots
Explore
Futures wheel
Think through the consequences and knock-on effects
T.A.S.C.
Helps you think about and communicate any topics, issues or problems
Question things
Question everything you read, hear and see
Compare and contrast
Make comparisons between two topics
A day in the life
Seeing things as they are experienced.
Analyse
Tracking an enquiry
This thinking guide will help you to plan your enquiry
Facts or opinions
Sort out the facts from the opinions about a particular topic
Making meanings
Establish what you want to know
Scamper
Substitute, combine, adapt, modify, rearrange
Traffic lights
What changes would you make? Analyse a particular situation
Different perspectives
From a different angle
Examining a topic through a variety of different lenses
Thinking boxes
Analyse from different perspectives - local to global
Plus, minus, interesting
Evaluate by identifying pluses, minuses and interesting points
Compass rose
Examine things from a variety of perspectives
Alternative uses of graphic organizers
Teachers sometimes give underachieving students partially-completed graphic organizers. All the students have to do is finish them.
