Read the ways against each other.
A way of thinking on its own looks complete. It only shows what it leaves out when you hold one thing steady and let the ways vary, which is hard to do while clicking between four pages. This page does it instead.
Pick the ways, then pick what to hold constant. Start with a person. The same five people appear on every page, in the same school, facing the same decision, and each way of thinking gives them a different day. Then try “What it cannot see”. Each way’s blind spot is usually what one of the others notices first.
Systems thinking
Understanding what is · wholes and relations
Design thinking
Making what could be · wholes and relations
Critical thinking
Understanding what is · parts and steps
Computational thinking
Making what could be · parts and steps
Where to go next
The four in full
Each way’s page carries the whole day, a picture of the way at work outside school, and the reading it comes from.
All four ways