LogicWorks A
The first 'lesson' in the LogicWorks programme for pupils aged 9 and above.
LogicWorks is an innovative course in logic using a carefully-planned sequence of PowerPoint presentations. Sutiable for pupils aged nine and upwards, it consists of 26 steps, labelled A-Z, that aim to help children and young people develop conceptual vocabularies and capacities to engage with everyday but ultimately complex arguments. A new letter will be added every week until the course is complete.
LogicWorks introduces moves and concepts systematically and engagingly, inviting paired or group discussion at every stage. Moves and concepts include:
Each step, or letter, in the course consists of a small collection of PowerPoints that can be shown directly to pupils, and each collection on average might take up a whole lesson of about 30 minutes.
However, because of the invitations to discussion and invention that are built in, some packs might extend well beyond this time and, if they do, it should not be seen as wasted time. On the contrary, the sessions could be celebrated as regular ‘mental workouts’ and concept stretchers.
If, as is hoped, you and your pupils do build it regularly into the timetable (perhaps as starters to whole P4C sessions), you might plan to spread the course over a whole year – say, 32 weeks – with a few steps/letters extending into two weeks, or even over two years.
However it is timetabled, I hope that it will be fun, as well as educative, to follow. I am very open to suggestions for refinements or additions to the course.
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The first 'lesson' in the LogicWorks programme for pupils aged 9 and above.
Lesson B develops 'If ... then' thinking and highlights the concepts of cause and effect.
Lesson C continues to explore the concepts of cause and effect and introduces the problems of 'rash reversing'.
This lesson introduces the practice of defining something and the essential word 'all'.