New book on Thinking Tools
Dr Cas Olivier - Cognitive Systems Pioneer
My motto is to liberate students on all levels from rote learning and enable them to become critical thinkers and knowledge creators. I have a solid footprint in South Africa amongst both teachers and students.
The title of my new book (publish date 2020 - Cambridge Scholar Publishers):
Potential Development using Thinking Tools: The Key to Flipped Teaching.
Educators need to empower learners to be prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to be thinkers with the ability to pioneer the future. This book cracks teaching and learning myths that led to learners being perceived as knowledge duplicators instead of being knowledge creators.
Thinking tools move the focus of learning from mastering content to critical thinking. This requires the critical thinking toolkit, which is the mothership of all thinking. It engages learners’ forever-wandering minds with the learning task at hand, which is the substitute for the traditional expectations of “paying attention” and “memorising”. When employing thinking tools, learners become thinking engineers—taking ownership of what they must discover, create or solve.
Within this paradigm of teaching, teachers directly engage with learners’ brains, which goes beyond learner-centred teaching and defining learning as visual, auditory or kinaesthetic.
The book is based on examples of thinking tools sessions.
I provide Thinking Tools education to corporates, teachers, parents and children.
Another perspective: “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” Nikola Tesla.? We teach people to access this core of knowledge, through the heart brain. The head brain makes sense of hit and the gut brain decides the how and what..... Three brains better than one!? ?I do agree that most education systems reward the knowledge duplicators.