What is CCT?
Critical & Creative Thinking
or
Creative & Critical Thinking
“Critical and creative thinking are integral to activities that require students to think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school.”
Critical and Creative Thinking Definitions
Creative Thinking is the thinking we do when we generate ideas
Critical Thinking is the thinking we do when we judge ideas
What is CCT General Capability?
“Across the curriculum, students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.”
DISPOSITIONS
Is the student WILLING?
Strategies & Tools
Is the student EQUIPPED?
SKILLS
Is the student ABLE?
Critical & Creative Thinking Learning Continuum
Adapted from The Australian Curriculum and The Coloured Thinking Caps
“The critical and creative thinking continuum is an excellent checklist to see where my students are at and what skills need to be further taught.”
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Explainer video of Learning Continuum
The Minds Wide Open Critical and Creative Thinking Learning Continuum is based closely on the CCT Capability document released by The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
What does 21st Century Learning actually mean?
“Getting more than one answer is the new golden rule”
Thinking in the 21st Century
Now, let me tell you ‘bout the newest subject at school
Getting more than one answer is the new golden rule
Last century the teachers taught you what to think
Now they’re teaching everybody how to think
C C T
We’re thinking in the 21st century!
Now, let me tell you what critical thinking is not
It’s not criticising everybody there on the spot
It’s the thinking we do when we judge an idea
Yeah, we question it and check it until it is clear
C C T
We’re thinking in the 21st century!
We ask the questions like “How do we know?”
“How do we know this?” “Is it correct?”
Let’s find out the cause and then try to prove it?
And after we’ve proved it we’ll double-check
We will double-check
Now, let me make it clear just what creative thinking is
It’s the way that we think when generating ideas
Like the moment I get that inspiration
A bright idea pops into my imagination
Thinking in the 21st century!
Music and lyrics © James Phelps 2015
Vocals by Tanaya Kumar (age 14)
Published by Minds Wide Open