Personal reflection on C&D thinking and mind mapping

• Hi , my name is Zoe and I'm going to write about an Information classwork. In this classwork we worked with the question:"¿ What is a Computer?" and we had to explain It.

• For doing a mindmap I used an app called Mindomo , wich is very effective for doing this kind of excercises. Also it is very easy to manage you can create mind maps about a specific theme and then select the topics, subtopics and insert a relationship between them.It is easy to create and share mind maps, concept maps, task maps and outlines,mindmapping software for Web, Desktop, iOS and Android.

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• This is my mindmap about "¿ What is a Computer?"

By completing this excercise I could test thinking outside the box by asking me what a computer is.I work with this device every day and I didnt knew lots of information about them. Thinking in this way opens your mind and gives you new opportunities to know more about everything. For example I learned that there is a project about Ecologic Computers that work with Ecological energie and thats awesome!

For today´s people is very normal to know about computers excistence. Basic everyone has used a computer before or at least they know what is It. So in this case by answering the question ¨What is a Computer?¨, our teacher recomended us to think divergently. This means we have to not only search for the basic information like the definition of the word , but to get outside the box and make a brainstorm of ideas. When you only search for the basic information , you are thinking convergently. The best way of thinking is when you begin thinking convergently and then jump to the divergent thinking.