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Also if someone has a recommendation on how to teach adults to think, that would be useful too. Ages 21-90. (Jokes aside, is it that different? Isn't the large
by omarhaneef 6y ago
Also if someone has a recommendation on how to teach adults to think, that would be useful too. Ages 21-90.
(Jokes aside, is it that different? Isn't the larger question: what does it mean to "think", and what does it mean to "teach" someone to do it?)
- tmaly 6y agoOP here, The Thinking Toolbox by Bluedorn is pretty good. The target age starts at 12-13. For me, this is still too advanced for the age range 6-8 I am looking for. The biggest challenge is taking these abstract ideas and making them accessible and interesting to a child. I taught a few lessons in Scratch programming last year to grades 1-5. Before I conceptualized the lessons, I had listened to the audio book Made to Stick. I found this was helpful in thinking about how I should communicate these abstract ideas about programming to younger kids.
- omarhaneef 6y agoI didn’t understand that you specifically meant how to think about programming. That is a more specific — and therefore more answerable — question. I thought you meant thinking in general from the post.
- tmaly 6y agoI offered Scratch as a specific example, but I think the ideas can be applied in the general.