• Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems
• Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
• Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
• Interpret data
• Evaluate evidence and arguments
• Recognize and evaluate propositions
• Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
• Test generalizations and conclusions
• Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
• Evaluate and manage risk
• Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
• Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
• Develop contrary or opposing arguments
• Analyse complex concepts and projects into their constituent parts and synthesize them to create new understanding
• Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
• Identify obstacles and challenges
• Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
• Identify trends and forecast possibilities
• Troubleshoot systems and applications

• Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries

• Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely or impossible

• Create novel solutions to authentic problems
• Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas

• Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies
• Design new machines, media and technologies
• Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and generate testable hypotheses

• Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes

• Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways

• Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple opposing, contradictory and complementary arguments

• Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques
• Generate metaphors and analogies

knowledge across

disciplines and subject

groups?

• Use effective learning strategies in subject groups and disciplines
• Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
• Inquire in different contexts to gain a different perspective
• Compare conceptual understanding across multiple subject groups and disciplines

• Make connections between subject groups and disciplines
• Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to create products or solutions

• Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
• Change the context of an inquiry to gain different perspectives