..::Integrated thinking model from the Iowa Department of Education::..

Main Ideas

*Most comprehensive and rational model available for describing critical, creative and complex thinking. 

*Speculating and wondering

Theory

*Creative thinking:

- Information by relating it to personal experiences or building an idea

-Expanding adding details, modifying, extenting ideas, by applyng them in a different context.

*Context - Creative

-Objetive and subjetive criteria

Folliwing steps:

 1) Identifying, recognizing

 2) Generating alternatives (hypothesizing, speculating)

 3) Assessing the consequenses (classifying, comparing/contrasting, causal relationships)

 4) Making a choice

 5) Evaluating the choices

Jonassen, David H. (1996). Computers in the classroom: Mindtools for critical thinking. Columbus, Ohio. Prentince Hall.