Get The Idea


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TEACHING THINKING
We believe a student will apply full concentration to solving a problem when it is a fun activity, not a strain.

We believe that a good way to accomplish this is through a book that tells an interesting story with believable characters.

It is when the student truly enjoys the intellectual challenge of creative thinking and problem solving that they develope thinking skills that will be useful in real life situations.

The book that you see here is an attempt to put our principles to the test.

The young reader participates with fictional children in finding creative solutions to problems.

Sometimes the students give their solutions by coloring one or several pictures, sometimes by writing and sometimes by drawing their ideas. The last option has proven especially fruitful in encouraging children to give free rein to their imagination with often surprising and delightful results.

The book is also personalised. The students draw their portraits into empty spaces, and speaks, offering advice and encouragement to the main character.

Most of the problems are of the kind where several answers may work. This is also true of the ethical problems; different students will find different answers that may be equally acceptable.

By the time the students has finished working their way through the book, they have made it their own work. This is why they are invited to write their own name on the front page as the third author.

In this first book, (we hope there will eventually be five), the logical problems revolve around various methods for sending messages. The underlying theme concerns the problems children have in communicating their feelings.

In the next book, entitled GET THE IDEA,
Book 2: TREASURE, the student will follow clues to find a treasure. The underlying theme is that the real treasure is friendship.

Best wishes,
Gunnar Halldórsson
Guðvarður Halldórsson