Educational Psychology / Unit 6 EDP 0501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Three Kinds of Complex Thinking
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The idea
Classrooms pursue three forms of complex thinking: critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving, and each suits particular instructional strategies.
In practice
Judging a source, inventing a design and fixing a broken circuit call on each in turn.
Where people slip
Strategies range from teacher-directed to student-initiated, and the right one depends on the kind of thinking sought.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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