Cognitive skills and creativity

  Thinking is the ultimate cognitive activity, consciously using our brains to make sense of the world around us and decide how to respond to it. Unconsciously our brains are still 'thinking' and this is a part of the cognitive process, but is not what we normally call 'thinking'.  Neurally , thinking is simply about chains of synaptic connections. Thinking as experienced is of 'thoughts' and 'reasoning' as we seek to connect what we sense with our inner world of understanding, and hence do and say things that will change the outer world. Our ability to think develops naturally in early life. When we interact with others, it becomes directed, for example when we learn values from our parents and knowledge from our teachers. We learn that it is good to think in certain ways and bad to think in other ways. Indeed, to be accepted into a social group, we are expected to think and act in ways that are harmonious with the group culture.

To start with this topic is relevant the theory of change explains “how activities are understood to produce a series of results that contribute to achieving the final intended impacts. It can be developed for any level of intervention – an event, a project, a program, a policy, a strategy or an organization.” (UNICEF, Patricia Rogers) for this we can see the theory of chance as that way is not only searching for the solutions, it is to find them in the vest way for developing a whole strategy to implement an attempt for having a significant impact with it. The theory of change is then, a model to evaluate the efficiency of the solutions this allows us to recognize what are the long and the short necessities, find ways to apply it and correct the bad ones, that’s why it can be used for strategic planning or program for forethought to identify the current situation (in terms of needs and opportunities), the suitable situation, and what required to be done to change from one to the oth...

At first, sight seems that this point is already covered in bloom’s taxonomy, nevertheless, those were the methodologies from a whole. then searching deep about the ways of learning, it also is remarkable the importance of the use of the tools at the moment of problem-solving. To cover this part, it will be presented some of the tools most used and helpful for a conscious understanding of the problems and their solutions. Many of us have read or listened to Cause - Effect, this model is explained as “When you have a serious problem, it's important to explore all of the things that could cause it, before you start to think about a solution.” (Cause and effect diagram, University of Western Australia). This is substantial for problem solution owing to it must not do guesses regarding what is happening or will happen if you modify random data, that is not how things get fixed, problems must be analyzed before, looking for the root of all, after identifying the part of the solution w...

 In education, there exist some basic thinking skills, even so, they were already covered in the previous essay. Moreover, what happens with the higher ones, this is the new point of view. Checking Bloom’s taxonomy to see these news skills in the top part, means that the lower ones are known even though this does not that the rest ones must do them because for learning with this methodology some steps can be suppressed according to the user. Therefore, these skills will specify a hard way of not only looking for the information, rather interpret it as well as reasoning and take decisions. Analysis, in line with the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd ed. is “the process of breaking up a concept, proposition, linguistic complex, or fact into its simple or ultimate constituents.” In this way can say that is made isolation of what is more elementary from what is more complex, due to this is primordial to examine and evaluate the recently acquired knowledge to elements already kn...

Education is an indispensable part of our lives especially today in the XXI century, for this reason, it must be paid attention it, pedagogues have created a methodology to develop this kind of thinking skills from basic to harder, likewise, it has had modifications for years, it is called Bloom’s taxonomy. This essay will only cover the basic ones and how are they conformed usi ng some concepts , so what understand Bloom’s taxonomy first is divided into different parts of the thinking skills that are separated in a way that not always will be following an order of steps, but also can be adapted to the necessary context. Observation is a method very used to obtain new information about a topic of interest, it consists of the direct collection of data from nature. The good part of it is that this systematic process provides loyal information of a large variety of behavioral, patterns and phenomena; however, some things cannot be known because they are intangible. This process is use...