Convergent and Divergent (Questions)
Convergent Questions: The convergent questions are questions with a basic answer about the topic. This is a easy, basic level of thinking. For example you are with the topic ´´dog´´ and you ask a convergent question: What´s a dog?, for that question you will have a basic answer like... The dog is a mammal. Normally convergent questions are related to questions like ''Who'', ''When'', ''Where'', ''What''.
This questions are a type of focus questions and the search of their answers lasts like only 1 minute. This questions are ideal to write a concept.
Divergent Questions: The divergent questions are questions that are related with the topic, but they are complex and are more variable. The divergent questions generate other questions, not like the convergent that gives you an answer and that's it. For example, if you ask ''Why dogs hate cats, and could they live together? This question you have to investigate, why dogs hate cats and then this generate another question and you have to research for more information. Normally divergent questions are related to questions like ´´How could?'', ''What might?'', ''Suppose''.
I made a mind a mindmap about computers:
This is another type of focus questions and the search of their answers lasts much more time than the convergent questions. This questions are ideal to write a specific text, like an article or the text of a website.
Mindmaping
A mindmap is ideal to present a topic. The convergent and divergent questions are ideal for a mindmap too. In a mindmap you present a topic, for example a presentation, and you use subtopics to make it better. The subtopics can be focus questions (convergent and divergent), so it's easy to explain it. I prefer to use in mindmap convergent questions, because a mindmap don't shows you all the inforation, normally it shows you the basic one, then you could talk about a divergent question, but in general I prefer convergent questions for a mindmap, but more than one or two convergent questions. Mindmaping
I made a mind a mindmap about computers:
This is the link to access to the mindmap.
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