Making progress in the community of inquiry

Some philosophical skills:
as supplied by C. Golding Connecting Concepts: Thinking activities for Students ACER 2002.
  • Come to know each other's views
  • Asked questions
  • Found assumptions we did'nt realise we were making
  • Come up with reasons to back up what was said
  • Come up with examples to support what was said
  • Discovered problems and issues
  • Developed new ideas and opinons
  • Clarified ideas and opinions
  • Broadened our ideas about the topic
  • Classified or categorised some ideas
  • Worked out the consequences of views or events
  • Showed how different contexts change what we think
  • Explored the terrain
  • Made a distinction between things
  • Made a connection between things
  • Picked out some possible solutions or answers
  • Rejected some reasons or explanations
  • Rejected some ideas, solutions or answers
  • Reached a tentative conclusion we may change
  • Reached a final conclusion we all agree on
  • Discovered it is more confusing than we thought

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