Visible thinking

Visible thinking is a wonderful tool on the web which allowed everyone who wants to involve abilities, attitudes, and alertness, all three at once. To engage previews knowledge enthusiastically making them thinkers and learners by using features that the page has. As we know that nowadays one of the most important competences is to be an analytical thinker so it forces teachers and student to look for different technics and tools that make possible developing this ability through applying classroom material, data and relating at ones with a variety of examples based on real time situations, forcing readers to think and analyze the situation by giving their own analysis. To be successful in the labored areas is necessary to update our knowledge and types of teaching basing on students types of learning knowing that there are some obsolete techniques, and web tools have become the new resource with its tools and free downloaded programs or online pages like visible thinkers. Visible Thinking is a flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time. Some of its key goals are Deeper understanding of content, Greater motivation for learning, Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities, Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning, A shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners. To achieve these goals, Visible Thinking involves several practices and resources. Teachers are invited to use with their students a number of "thinking routines" -- simple protocols for exploring ideas -- around whatever topics are important, say fractions arithmetic, the Industrial Revolution, World War I, the meaning of a poem, the nature of democracy. Visible Thinking includes attention to four "thinking ideals" -- understanding,

truth, fairness, and creativity. Visible Thinking emphasizes several ways of making students' thinking visible to themselves and one another, so that they can improve it. The central idea of Visible Thinking is very simple: making thinking visible. We learn best what we can see and hear ("visible thinking" means generally available to the senses, not just what you can see with your eyes). We watch, we listen, we imitate, we adapt what we find to our own styles and interests, and we build from there. Now imagine learning to dance when the dancers around you are all invisible. Imagine learning a sport when the players who already know the game can't be seen. Strange as it seems, something close to it happens all the time in one very important area of learning: learning to think, which includes learning to learn. Thinking is pretty much invisible. To be sure, sometimes people explain the thoughts behind a particular conclusion, but often they do not. Mostly, thinking happens under the hood, within the marvelous engine of our mind-brain. As a conclusion we can use this new tool in our classes and be sure that our students are learning how to think no only to memorize as we use to teach so nowadays analysis, thinking and relate with real situation historical or current ones is the competence so visual thinking is one way to make it possible.