ThinkWorks helps individuals and organizations to improve by developing thinking, learning, and conceptual modeling skills. All of our products and workshops are based on scientific research developed at Cornell University by Dr. Derek Cabrera.
21st Century Thinking™ Skills include six abilities that all people will need in the "knowledge age": (1) Critical Thinking: to analyze, deconstruct, and evaluate ideas, (2) Creative Thinking: to construct new ideas and lines of thought, (3) Systems Thinking: to understand complex patterns in context, (4) Scientific Thinking: to observe, hypothesize, predict,and validate with evidence, (5) Interdisciplinary Thinking: to unify, transfer, synthesize, and integrate, and (6) Prosocial/Emotional Thinking: to build relationships through compassion, concern, and shared experience.
The Patterns of Thinking™ Method includes four essential and universal skills that underlie all six abilities: (1) Test Distinctions: Compare and contrast between similarities and opposites and test boundaries and meanings, (2) Construct Systems: Sort, nest, and categorize using part-whole thinking, (3) Recognize Relationships: Make connections, interactions, associations, and cause & effect explicit, and (4) Take Perspectives: See new possibilities from different points-of-view.
ThinkBlocks™ are a tactile educational tool that makes it easy and accessible to teach beginner to advanced thinking skills. The unique design of ThinkBlocks makes them an ideal tool to understand and build basic or complex conceptual models. ThinkTiles™ Curriculum & Construction™ Guides are "tactile content tiles" that teach state and national PreK to 12 standards of learning while developing lasting thinking skills making it possible to "teach to the test" at the same time that you prepare them for the tests of life.
Our Customers include K-12 teachers, college professors, corporate leaders, teams, and specialists in a variety of industries ranging from schools to management consulting. From pre-schoolers to PhDs, from classrooms to corporations, those who learn to think, will thrive.
Our Committment to Support means we will work with you to develop the educational solutions you want and need. Many solutions can be found in our support area, Ergo's Lab, including: our online FAQ and solution center, Thinkipedia; our powerful educational innovation engine, a social network for ideas called, IdeaWorks; our repository of guided tours, activities, testimonials, and expert talks, Video Library; and, our collection of research, whitepapers, and case studies.
