1. Ch. 3 Study Guide
Nick Craney

2. Creative Thinking Creative Thinkers:
Examine ideas from different perspectives
Make inferences
Elaborate on their thinking
Use metaphors to think through problems

3. Types of Creative Thinking
Divergent Thinking
Starts from a common point and moves outward
Convergent Thinking
Pulling together information from many places to draw a common conclusion
Innovation
A type of divergent thinking that creates something original and of value
Critical Thinking
A type of convergent thinking that determines the validity or value of something
Inductive Thinking
A type of reasoning that moves parts to the whole, examples to generalizations
Deductive Thinking
A type of reasoning that moves the whole into parts, takes generalizations and gets examples

4. Authentic Instruction
Authentic Instruction is characterized by: 1) learner autonomy and 2) active learning, and tend to be anchored by 3) holistic, 4) complex, and 5) challenging activities.
Learner Autonomy
Important for students to pursue things that are interesting and important to them.
Active Learning
Being mentally and perhaps physically involved in the learning process.

5. Authentic Instruction Cont.
Holistic Activity
The idea that we will learn better the basic thing we need to know if we have learn them through the context of meaningful activities
Complex Activity
Authentic instruction incorporates real-world and complex problems
Challenging Activities
The activities you do should be challenging so students feel a challenge to find out the answers to the problems

6. Facilitating Creative Thinking while Meeting Content Standards
Meet the standards, and the class objectives while requiring students to show that they know the information through different forms that help them think about the material critically