慎思明辨 Rationale Education Extra - Argument mapping

Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Develop Communication Skills

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Rationale®, is a program to structure thinking and writing skills.

Official web site:  https://www.rationaleonline.com/

 
 10-minutes Rationale Education Overview

Designed to guide students from basic brainstorming tasks toward evaluated reasoning and clear well-structured essays. By making argument maps, you visually display and scaffold the thinking process.

Included built in interactive tutorial and critical thinking e-book.

Benefits

 It helps students to 

• Structure arguments

• Analyse reasoning

• Identify assumptions

• Evaluate evidence

and teachers to

• monitor and assess students’ thinking processes

Argument maps can also be shared, allowing collaborative online works. 

Critical Thinking with Rationale Online, for IB

Extended Essay Writing guide for students

Included in the online subscription are tutorials on:

Critical Thinking

Here you'll find twelve sets with theory and exercises designed to help you understand more about creating argument maps in Rationale. Along the way, we cover some basic concepts and principles of reasoning, writing and critical thinking.

Argument Mapping

The Tutorial Argument Mapping offers six lessons with exercises and quizzes for advanced students and go into more detail with respect to making and analyzing arguments.

Reasoning for Knowledge

These advanced exercises are designed to help you understand some important concepts used in reasoning and ascertaining knowledge. They are particularly helpful for use with the International Baccalaureate's Theory of Knowledge unit in the Diploma Programme and University programmes.

Timo, the master-mind and designer of Rationale, share with Hong Kong teachers the benefits of Rationale at the Learning and Teaching Expo 2014.

Step-by-step training  video on the official web site

Rationale Critical Thinking Book

online e-Book version included in the subscription.

Buy the printed book on Amazon

By Ms Wong Sau Lee and Ms Jenny Leung from HKBUAS Wong Kam Fai Secondary & Primary School in Chinese (Cantonese)

1. Using Rationale to teach English (4.5 mins)

2. Using Rationale to teach Chinese (6 mins)