Essential question:
How do we make
the students thinking skills visible for their
learning improvement ?
We as educators, need to
infuse thinking skills into this learning process. We like to
say that Thinking Skills are one of the tools of engineers. It is
important to model for our students the use of thinking skills and
provide feedback to them on their use. Creative and critical
thinking are key to the finding design challenges and doing a
design. Questioning is needed through-out the process as well as
developing our curiosity. Meta-cognitive reflection bring in the
ability to see what we are doing and change where necessary and
using
Blooms higher order taxonomy
will bring about additional thinking skills.
The
purpose of this article is twofold: first, to
provide information on the learning process and
skillful thinking and, second, to provide educators
with tangible suggestions on how to change the
learning environment to enhance skillful thinking.
Using the updated
Bloom Taxonomy,
we can create questions around the 6 levels,
starting from the lowest level to the higher order
thinking skill:, includes action verbs.