Brief Summary of Hyerle’s KEY CONCEPTS From Thinking Maps: Visual Tools for Activating Habits of Mind, Ch. 9 by David Hyerle & Thinking Maps (Ch. 7), in Visual Tools for Transforming Information into Knowledge, Hyerle

3 KEY COGNITIVE USES OF MAPS THINKING CREATIVELY ORGANIZING INFORMATION CONCEPTUALIZING INFORMATION

LINKS BETWEEN COGNITION AND PRESENTATION FUNCTIONS THINKING CREATIVELY—BRAINSTORMING ORGANIZING—GRAPHICAL ORGANIZERS CONCEPTUAL—DEEPER UNDERSTANDING

FUNDAMENTAL COGNITIVE PATTERNS AS FOUNDATION TO LEARNING 8 NONLINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS, EACH WITH A FUNDAMENTAL COGNITIVE SKILL; IT IS CENTRAL TO THIS APPROACH TO TEACH (COACH) THESE COGNITIVE SKILLS EXPLICITLY; EXPLICITLY REFERS TO THINGS LIKE ASKING REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDENT TO BECOME A METACOGNITIVE, SELF-ASSESSING, INDEPENDENT LEARNER;

COMMON VISUAL LANGUAGE THINKING MAPS: 8 COGNITIVE PROCESSES--FIGURE 9.2. p. 152

8 cognitive Processes

WHY MAPS WORK Metacognition Memory View information and expand, reconfigure, reflect on claims and spatially see what we don’t know; Frame of reference – stepping back to see What influences how you think? What experiences and beliefs are operating in how you see this information? How are you approaching this problem? Maps provide a language for deeper listening to oneself and others Maps provide a mental work space between people to view the thinking Maps offer a holism of meanings