Creative Thinking
Generated Knowledge
Synthesizing - Elaborating - Imagining
Synthesizing
1. Analogical Thinking
How can the teacher help students see the multiple visual analogs (series of bisociations) in any set of visual forms they create?
2. Summarizing
What strategies can be created that will help students pull from their visual research the most relevant stylistic and artistic qualities for use in solving their own visual problems?
3. Hypothesizing
How can a classroom environment be developed which encourages and promotes the risk taking and hypothesizing about alternate visual solutions to problems?
4. Planning
As students are preparing to engage in visual problem solving, how can their thought processes be more thorough and artistically solid?
Elaborating
1. Expanding
Once a student gets an initial visual idea, how can the teacher encourage personally authentic expansion of that idea to more fully help the student identify the whole artistic impression?
2. Modifying
When students are "stuck" on a single visual idea, how can the teacher help them learn to visually analyze and identify changes that are necessary to achieve the best artistic solution?
3. Extending
Through configurational processing, how can students extend their visual thinking processes to a disciplined length that will encourage the best possible artistic outcomes?
4. Shifting Categories
How can students be taught to re-center their vision and/or consider the perspectives of non Euro-centric cultures in working toward creative problem solutions?
5. Concretizing
What can the teacher do to create a classroom atmosphere in which all mental imagery ideas are naturally given visual form in the world of materials where they can grow creatively?
Imagining
1. Fluency
How can the teacher best encourage and facilitate the natural human ability to produce a large quantity of artistically valid, visual responses to any posed problem?
2. Predicting
Through sketching or model-making, how can students be encouraged to visually imagine the exciting possibilities for developing any visual form?
3. Speculating
How can students re-center and combine their visual ideas (configurations) and take the risks necessary for the graphic ideation of creative new solutions?
4. Visualizing
How can students be taught to have greater control and flexibility over their mental imagery so that their imagery increases vividness and clarity?
5. Intuition
In addition to logical thought processes, how can the students be taught to trust their own intuitive judgments and decisions?
Content/Basic Thinking
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
HOTS Home