Steps To Help You Reach Critical Thinking

Steps to Help you reach Critical Thinking

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Stories / Usage Scenarios… Once upon a time – Describe a futuristic world or what would be the perfect idea in your mind. How about role playing? What would Mickey Mouse have to write?

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Mind Mapping – Development of the idea in different directions and continue to expand. Using text and/or images to provide linkage. – Logical Thinking process… next steps

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BAMMA - Brain Attack Multiplied by Morphological Analysis (Brainstorming on Steroids) – The association of words in non-traditional thought process. Can be used to reach the critical thinking stage.

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Method of Four Delays for Genius Ways – Evolving your thought process to develop the idea through a series of improving delays… question the assumptions of why you did it that way… is there another way?.... This will take your idea to the next level.

My Story My MYCA Neighborhood My name is Meredith Chambers. I am a grade 6 teacher at Cherry Hill Public School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It had taken me quite some time to settle into living here on my own, you see I had decided to move here two years ago after my husband Gerald passed away. For the first while, I felt quite alone, I didn’t have any friends here, I didn’t know my neighbors, and I am surely not the type to go gallivanting around town. I’d much prefer the comforts of a small town community. It wasn’t until our neighborhood became Networked that I truly began to feel at home here. That same secure feeling that I had grown used to when I was at home with Gerald. I felt safe. Our community here in Cherry Hill has always been a relatively safe one, until last year when there was a string of houses set ablaze by vandals. Senseless acts of destruction! Soon after, the HSS office issued our community this wonderful device they call the Myca network. I believe it stands for MY Community Association. The device they gave us is a thin sheet of plastic with a screen on one side, a speaker and a few buttons on the other. The whole thing is no bigger than a little calculator, I usually keep it in my purse when I’m out, and keep it close by when I’m at home.

My Story CONTINUED It wasn’t long until I received my first message from MYCA It was a Thursday afternoon; I was just leaving the school when I heard the distinct clicking coming from my day-timer. MYCA needed to tell me something Patricia, who lives just a few doors down from me, has sent out an urgent message. “Patricia: Someone is breaking into 51 Kippen Place.” “That’s my neighbors home!” I thought to myself. I hope they’re OK! POLICE: The criminal has fled the home and is hiding somewhere in the community. Please lock all windows and doors and stay inside your homes. We have the block surrounded. I decided to stay at the school until it was safe. I didn’t want to get in the middle of this. A few minutes later MYCA told me that the criminal had been arrested. “Thank goodness!” I thought. Now, we have been able to use MYCA for all sorts of things. Not just for emergencies. If Ms Baker, from down the street, is in need for a strong young buck to move her patio stones, all she has to do is get MYCA to ask the neighbors if someone is interested in making a few dollars. Or if Mr. Casey is looking for some company to go figure skating with, MYCA can find him some friends. With COMMUNITY MESSAGING MYCA makes our lives more safe, convenient, friendlier, and most importantly, MYCA makes any community feel like home.

Mind Mapping

BAMMA Personal Security Person

Real, Invisible, Sick, Hairy, Illusion, Man, Woman, organic

Contact

Caller ID, Identification, Only Once, Frequent, My Location, Man, Woman,

Protection

weapon, gun, pepper spray, dog, odor, sickness, loud noise, alerting others, joust, illusion, hide and seek, security, escort, virtual, poisonous, smoke detector, fire alarm

Health

good, poor, sensor, medications, yearly check-up, exercise routine, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, balance, coordination, eye sight, learning

Social Network

Many contacts, few contacts, popular, lonely, busy, people I know, people I don't know, organic

Voice

Raspy, Deep, Manly, Woman

Senses

Hearing, Seeing, Smell, taste, vibration, RF energy

Location

Known, unknown, crime area, friendly area, business district, residential neighborhood, well lit, deserted, home, work, vacation, stores

Travel

Auto, buses, trains, airplane, unfamiliar roads, vacation, familiar roads

Personal Area Network

Others around me, objects around me, access points, information, learning objects, helpful objects, emergency objects, fire alarm, smoke alarm, clock, people I know, People I don’t know, People that travel the same route that I do.

(1) Contact with caller only once – create a temporary caller ID. – Create a masculine Caller ID. (2) Contact is an unknown caller – don’t accept at voice mail or provide a masculine voice response. (3) Contact unknown caller – change vocoder to provide a masculine voice. (4) Protection, security, escort, virtual – My mobile device is my escort – Everyone around me knows I am being virtual escorted. (5) Person, organic, health, social network – vivid display of an organic representation of my social and mental health.