Model thinkers - resource with infographics of many approaches to thinking/critical reasoning

 Via LinkedIn this morning, a link to a good resource on 'model thinkers'.

The resource provides infographics on a large number of 'mental models' as guides to be 'smarter, faster'.

The infographics are categorised into themes: 

Learn and achieve, collaborate and lead, make better decisions, deliver value, live well, industry knowledge. Each is further broken down into sub-themes, for example for industry knowledge into - creative, design, education and training, engineering, military, sales, science, technology, project management, finance, economics, entrepreneurship.

Some of the infographics are only accessible for members only but most of the 'mainstream' models are available for all.

Models include ADKAR change model, deliberate practice, hero's journey, prisoner's dilemma, SCARF, 5 whys etc.

Therefore a good 'one-stop' shop if you are keen to try other approaches to nutting out problems and challenges. 

Each model (when accessible) provides a brief overview explaining the origins and precepts of the model; a list of 'actionable takeaways'; and a 'toolkit' or worksheet/template to assist the carry through of the 'actions'.

Overall, useful for moving out of the rut and providing resources of 'pick and mix' problem solving.

Scoop.it - another way to archive found sites

I noticed John Clayton's posts on linkedin of various interesting technology-enhanced learning infographics and checked out his links.

This brought me to scoop.it, a tool to archive found sites. Took me a couple of minutes to set up my own curation of teaching and learning related infographics. I had used my facebook account to set up the scoop.it account and each of the scoops on my scoop.it also ended up on my facebook page. Negating my efforts to keep personal and work apart :( However, several of my family and friends enjoyed the posts, so I will keep the facebook connection for the moment.

A few websites I visited in the last few days also allowed instant scoops to be achieved. I prefer archiving sites to provide more than just a brief twitter like link, or a list of links like delicious. So scoop.it, like tumblr and pinterest represent the current generation of website archival tools. These newer tools have a welcoming and are user-friendly feel to them.

The advantage with scoop.it is the ability to curate your collection in to various 'topics'. When you put in your key topics, a list of top 100 suggestions come up for each topic. This means scoop.it becomes a rss feeder as well. The option to link your curated finds to facebook, twitter, linkedin etc. also means that scoop.it has social networking features. So overall, a good tool to use with students or teachers who can then set up various topics they need to keep up with.

Meanwhile, I will keep my scoop.it site limited to infographics as I find these visual summarisations to be useful communication tools when working with busy tutors. Not much point sending them an academic paper they will never read! Good infographics provide the important points in an accessible format.