From August, 2065438 to August, 2007, MIT launched a new round of engineering education reform "New Engineering Education Transformation" (NEET for short), aiming at reconstructing engineering education teaching in MIT and fundamentally and systematically reflecting and reforming engineering education. The focus of the reform is students' learning style and learning content, and the goal is to cultivate leading engineering talents who can lead the future industrial and social development.
The basic connotation of 12 thinking ability is as follows:
Learning how to learn is that students actively use certain cognitive methods to think and learn.
Manufacturing refers to the ability of new engineering talents to discover and create non-existent technical artifacts.
Discovery refers to the ability to promote the renewal of social and world knowledge and produce new basic discoveries and technologies through exploration and verification.
Interpersonal communication ability refers to the ability to cooperate with others and understand others, including communication, listening, dialogue, emotional intelligence, participation and leadership of the team.
Personal skills and attitudes include initiative, judgment, decision-making, sense of responsibility, action, flexibility, self-confidence, observing morality, maintaining integrity and being able to learn for life.
Creative thinking refers to thinking that can put forward and form new and valuable ideas through in-depth thinking.
Systematic thinking refers to the ability to think comprehensively and globally when faced with complex, chaotic, homogeneous and heterogeneous systems.
Critical and metacognitive thinking refers to thinking that can evaluate the value and accuracy of information collected through observation, experience and communication through analysis and judgment.
Analytical thinking refers to being able to decompose facts and problems, use theories, models and mathematical analysis, clarify causal relationships and predict results.
Computational thinking refers to thinking that can use basic computing programs (such as abstraction, modeling, etc.). ), data structure, algorithm, etc. Understand physical, biological and social systems.
Experimental thinking refers to thinking that can conduct experiments to obtain data, including selecting evaluation methods, procedures, modeling and verifying hypotheses.
Humanistic thinking refers to the ability to form and apply the understanding of human society and its traditions, systems and artistic expressions, and to master the knowledge of human culture, humanistic thought and social, political and economic systems.