Every Student a Thinker!

Thinking (Quoted from the NZ Key Competencies)

"Thinking is about using creative, critical, and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences, and ideas. These processes can be applied to purposes such as developing understanding, making decisions, shaping actions, or constructing knowledge. Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency."

"Students who are competent thinkers and problem-solvers actively seek, use, and create knowledge. They reflect on their own learning, draw on personal knowledge and intuitions, ask questions, and challenge the basis of assumptions and perceptions."

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for your ICT cluster or school.

Building units around challenging questions and problems
Developing the capacity of students to synthesize and invent
Nurturing curiosity, intuition and lateral thinking
Showing the young how to construct meaning and manage both puzzles and mysteries
Cultivating those habits of mind that would support reflection, inquiry and action

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How is Thinking like Soaring?

Photographs shot in Queenstown, NZ

How is Thinking like Puzzling?

Explore these and related questions in a full day workshop.

How did superior thinking and inventiveness inspire the All Blacks team of 1905 in their victorious tour of Britain and Europe as the story is told by Lloyd Jones in The Book of Fame?

Was Burns a thinker? the kind of thinker the NZ Curriculum has in mind?

Why is this statue of Robert Burns so prominently displayed in Dunedin?

O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!

Blue Sky Thinking?

What do we mean by that?

Can we encourage the young to be blue sky thinkers?

Photograph shot in the Bay of Islands