A syllabus for the 21st century – (01)

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. – Alvin Toffler I have been thinking about how education should look like in our 21st century. Here is a list of the types of learning I think are important. Notice that […]

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Free book download: Understanding Thinking by John Evans

I scanned the book and so far I am impressed. I think folks that read the blog postings on here under the category of thinking may be interested in this book. Evans’ website, (Fluffbuster.co.uk) has a collection of all the diagrams in the Understanding Thinking book. Along with finding more information about the book you […]

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Higher-order Thinking

I added “Higher-order Thinking” to the Wikipedia List of thought processes today. The entry for this thought process existed in Wikipedia but it was missing from the master list of thought processes – which is becoming a quick reference list. Here is a quote from the original entry on Higher-order Thinking: “Higher order thinking involves […]

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Time to think: The one-hour thinking habit

I love this idea: “Jeffery Fox [...] recommends that you think daily for one hour. Not the unfocused, random thinking you might do in the shower or on your way to work [...] but focused, committed thinking: planning, brainstorming, writing down ideas, testing hypotheses, considering a work problem, imagining the future, setting goals, etc.” [1] […]

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Metacognition: reading and understanding difficult texts

Miss Dee  documented the way she digests difficult passages in literature. Here is her flow step-by-step: “Step 1: Identify the genre and topic of the passage. Step 2: Look for Topic Sentences and supporting evidence and explanations. Step 3: Draw links -> look out for connectors Step 4: Use one-line summary for each paragraph to […]

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Has metacognition arrived in popular culture ?

What is Metacognition ? “Metacognition is the knowledge (i.e. awareness) of one’s cognitive processes and the efficient use of this self-awareness to self-regulate these cognitive processes (e.g. Brown, 1987; Niemi, 2002; Shimamura, 2000). ( Wikipedia entry for “Metacognition”) Meta cognition can help us understand that there are many different types of thinking tools at our […]

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A Call for a Multidisciplinary Connection Effort

Abstract concepts can also be understood as emergent concepts. These emergent concepts may the results of the interplays from our own personal lenses we use to interpret the world. Lenses like our own physical bodies and conceptual lenses such as belief systems help to shape the way we interpret things. This diagram may also help […]

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Studying Disciplines Separatedly Leads to Short Comings in Understanding

This is one of the reasons I am advocating the idea of transdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, integral studies. Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems Excerpts: Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from […]

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Questions: An essential part of life ?

I challenge you to think without asking yourself a single question for 5 minutes. If you are able to do that then perhaps you’re probably already a Zen master or on your way to become one. But I highly doubt anyonce can stop process of internal inquiry at all levels of the human body. The […]

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The age of machine-mediated empiricism

Traditional human-based empiricism as we knew it through many years ended with the advent of technology. It shifted and became a hybrid of linear mechanics and phenomenology. Today it is another type of hybrid it, is a hybrid of human phenomenology and digital phenomenology. Since science leads our concept of reality and science uses quite […]

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