ThinkPlus - Project Overview

ThinkPlus is about current and emerging brain sciences, thinking and intelligence research, insight, knowledge, and transforming current practices and pedagogy into a metacurriculum for young people in the 21st Century.

ThinkPlus is designed in a number of iterative stages as it moves through the innovation cycle.

The stages are:

Research + Insight

At the research and insight stage of ThinkPlus, we gather knowledge and understanding of the current landscape and think about how we can develop learnable intelligence and good thinking practice through a Metacurriculum.

Invention + Design

From our research and insight stage, we move into invention mode: challenging existing logic and practices with deliberately new ideas, bringing in diverse expertise and knowledge to help us design.

ThinkPlus as a metacurriculum, is based around an accessible set of protocols, programmes and products.

By prototyping and visioning with a number of leading educators, schools and students, the ThinkPlus metacurriculum is now on the verge of entering the development and piloting phase, during which we will ensure it is broad, durable, flexible and meaningful.

Development + Piloting

The development and piloting stage is the design of the protocols, programmes, and products to pilot and test ThinkPlus with a number of schools across a diverse cross-section of Australian society.

We are establishing advisory panels, importantly including a panel of young people, to ensure that ThinkPlus is collaborative, reviewed and refined with all stakeholders taken into account.

This development and piloting stage will be the start of the next phase of a longitudinal study to review and reflect upon the practices and progress. It will commence in the next few months.

Dissemination + Commercialisation

Once ThinkPlus has been piloted, tried and tested, we will move into the commercialisation stage, whereby ThinkPlus will be formalised, distributed and ready for dissemination.

Importantly, effective social networks will be established to continue to foster the innovation embedded within ThinkPlus. New ideas and opportunities will be recognised as more and more schools take up the metacurriculum for the 21st Century, and the very process of implementing ThinkPlus will inevitably begin the next innovation cycle, in part utilising a digital strategy and online materials.