Core of Thinking Skills

Thinking Skills became a popular name for mind skills children need to learn in primary schools. On the one hand teachers talk about them as a simple checklist to put in the mental luggage of children, on the other hand the academics among us can diversify the abilities in a way most other academics need an extra set of thinking skills to understand them.
One day I ended up between the teacher and academic world: My noble task was to think of a game engine supporting thinking skills, teachers would use and academics would accept…v a l o r i z a t i o n…
System Designers like completeness. There is nothing more annoying halfway the trajectory somebody comes in and says:”Ah, forgot about this, this also HAS to be in”. So a game architect as I try to be, I look at Bloom’s Taxonomy. WOW, did I learn all these in primary school?!. Is it complete? Sounds all logical, so could be. But what tells me? At the same time there is a nice list of 8 thinking processes, all look sensible, and I understand them immediately! So if I understand them instantly, more people would I guess. Though as I am a strong believer in yin-yang, leftbrain-rightbrain exchange and balancing, how do these 8 relate to that?
This is the result, there is a logic to it, though that’s a bit more information than suitable for a blog post I don’t want to bore you with. Drop me a line if you want to know more.