Brain researches find repeatedly that ‘smart thinking’ will occur independent of a person’s IQ, with even very high IQ people often demonstrating quite ‘sloppy thinking’ and acts of plan stupidity at times.
The learning objective for this module is to enhance students’ critical and creative thinking ability, opening each thinker to the faster, and more appropriate, generation and evaluation of both new and existing ideas, novel recombination of perceptions, thoughts and feelings, and extensions of lateral thinking preparedness. Together with their repeated exposure to novel structures, multiple re-representations and exploration of alternative explanations (rather than mere descriptions) of both familiar and unfamiliar data sets and life-relevant scenarios, students will be afforded the opportunity to explore a wide variety of task domains which will enhance their ability to avoid slipping into poor (though possibly acceptable!) ‘habits of mind’.