The Role of AI in Education

 

The processes of acquiring, building, and creating knowledge with maps can enhance specific types of thinking skills: critical, systemic, and creative.
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Here’s how they differ:

1. Acquiring Knowledge with Critical Thinking:
   • Definition: This involves obtaining information while actively analyzing, evaluating, and questioning the information’s validity, sources, and implications.
   • Process: Rather than passively absorbing information, critical thinking requires skepticism and analytical skills. It involves understand concepts assessing arguments, identifying biases, and considering multiple perspectives.
   • Example: A student reads a historical text  and critically examines the author’s perspective, cross-referencing with other sources to assess accuracy and bias.
   • Mapping skills and techniques:
     • problematising with dialogue map and inquiry map
     • researching with concept map and argument map
     • aloving/decising with raking  map and decisin tree map
2. Building Knowledge with Systemic Thinking:
   • Definition: This involves integrating and organizing information in a holistic and interconnected manner, understanding how different pieces of information relate to one another within a larger system.
   • Process: Systemic thinking requires recognizing patterns, interdependencies, and the broader context in which information exists. It involves connecting new knowledge with existing frameworks and understanding the relationships between different elements.
   • Example: A healthcare professional integrates knowledge from various medical disciplines to develop a comprehensive treatment plan that considers the patient’s overall health and system interactions.
   • Mapping skills and techniques:
     • designing with system thinking map and system dynamic mapping
     • analysing with MCA map and Causal loop map
     • evaluating with SEA map (strategic environmental analysis) and M&E map (monitor/evaluate)
3. Creating Knowledge with Creative Thinking:
   • Definition: This involves generating new ideas, theories, or products through imaginative and innovative approaches.
   • Process: Creative thinking requires thinking outside the box, experimenting with new concepts, and applying original ideas. It often involves brainstorming, exploring possibilities, and taking risks.
   • Example: An engineer designs a new type of renewable energy device by combining principles from different fields in novel ways and experimenting with unconventional materials.
   • Mapping skills and techniques:
     • imagining with mind map and backcasting map
     • synthetising with rich picture mapping and web map
     • innovating with activity map and sequence map

Summary:

• Acquiring Knowledge with Critical Thinking: Focuses on receiving information with an analytical and evaluative approach.
• Building Knowledge with Systemic Thinking: Focuses on integrating information within a broader context, recognizing relationships and patterns.
• Creating Knowledge with Creative Thinking: Focuses on generating new and original ideas through innovative and imaginative processes.

Each type of thinking enhances the respective process of knowledge development by adding depth, context, and originality. Critical thinking ensures the reliability of acquired knowledge, systemic thinking provides a cohesive and interconnected understanding, and creative thinking drives the generation of novel ideas and advancements.

Cite:  Okada (2024). Knowledge Mapping skills. https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rrimap/index.php/skills/