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Critical and Creative Thinking for active learning
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Ideas for teachers to question, motivate and grow a 'culture of inquiry'
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Maree Whiteley
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Through transmediation (or observation, analysis, and creation), students can use the experience of studying a piece of visual art as a creative writing prompt.
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Creative thinking through The Arts is a very practical, fun and innovative way of integrating the Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities. 
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ALL teachers (and parents) should read this...What are we talking about when we talk about ‘higher-order thinking’? "In critical thinking, being able ‘to think’ means students can apply wise judgment or produce a reasoned critique. The goal of teaching is then to equip students to be wise by guiding them towards how to make sound decisions and exercise reasoned judgment..."
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Source: www.eftbrisbane.com | Original Post Date: January 3, 2009 - Critical thinking is an incredibly important skill. We use this skill (or ought to) in every aspect of our lives every single day. Although it’s an important part of academic and business success, it’s not often taught at school unless it’s part of a math, science, …
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This is a great infographic..."The basic definition of critical thinking is the ability to take information and make informed decisions without being influenced by your own opinions. Critical thinking is all about being in control of your own thought processes rather than letting them take control of you. It’s also about being able to think your way through the really tightly-targeted and clearly-honed messages that commercial interests bombard you with at every opportunity"
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249 Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking
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Very useful list...Bloom’s Taxonomy’s verbs–also know as power verbs or thinking verbs–are extraordinarily powerful instructional planning tools. In fact, next to the concept of backwards-design and power standards, they are likely the most useful tool a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to. Why? They can be used for curriculum mapping, assessment design, lesson planning, personalizing and differentiating learning, and almost any other “thing” a teacher–or student–has to do.
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Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller, inspired by Sir Ken Robinson's metaphor that teachers are like gardeners, reviews the skills teachers need to design fruitful learning conditions: empower yourself, stop blaming students, and revise and reflect.
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Such a wonderful analogy: teachers and gardeners...creating/designing conditions for success...Once again, such wonderful insight and words of wisdom from Sir Ken Robinson to empower teachers to achieve great things
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Check out this neat visual showing how the most creative people in history slept.
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How many hours sleep do you average each night? How many creative students in your classroom?
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Interesting list of learning...will teacher-training reflect this? what will you teach?
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Possession of facts is not learning. What is an important skill is the ability to sift through abundant information, identify what is valid and meaningful, then use it to create meaning and express it.
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Creating meaning from text and facts...Students as curators of information not just consumers of information!
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Roughly put, learning is really just a growth in awareness. The transition from not knowing to knowing is part of it, but that's really too simple because it misses all the degrees of knowing and not
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Genius Hour is a powerful movement popping up in classrooms across the world. The idea encourages students to explore their own passions and creativity.
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Love these 'rules'...can be applied in many Learning Areas: Genius Hour Rules • Work stems from driving questions• Research must play a big role• Projects must be completed and shared, ideally globally
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Excellent, easy to read explanations and supporting visual representations of DeBono's Six Thinking Hat strategy.
Viraj Athavale's curator insight,
September 3, 2014 1:38 AM
Great approach!! Must to adapt for decision making in corporate life as well as day-to-day life!! I recommend this to all!!
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This is an organic SlideShare presentation discovering the juiciest visualizations of Bloom's taxonomies (old and revised).
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Fabulous collection of graphic representations of Bloom's taxonomy...including matching student activities.
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Bringing objects and props into your classroom can create a world of curiosity and wonder for you and your students.
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Great questions to ask of your learning space..."Do you have mystery objects that attract the curiosity of students, leading them to ask questions and that foster meaningful conversations? Is your classroom visually stimulating for the students? Does it cultivate creativity, and more importantly, is it filled with objects, images and even props that help your students learn, even when they think they're not learning?"
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Norman Webb's Depth of Knowledge Levels is a system that categorizes tasks according to the complexity of thinking required to successfully complete them.
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Critical thinking and deep rigour...are your students thinking and reflecting about their learning?
Charles Fischer's curator insight,
November 15, 2014 1:11 PM
I love Webb's Depth of Knowledge and definitely prefer it over Bloom's. Both tools are great, though, for making sure that you are asking a variety of questions that probe for a complex variety of answers.
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Students must be engaged and cooperation must be practiced, and often. The following team-building games can promote cooperation and communication, help establish a positive classroom environment and — most importantly — provide a fun, much-needed reprieve from routine.
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Are you grooming the next generation of little humans to succeed in the “real world"? Daily Literacy and Numeracy skills should incorporate opportunities for students to also practice cooperation, collaboration and communication....here are some fun games to get the 'Collaborative Critical Thinking' juices flowing...
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To teach critical thinking, consider applying six definitions of that discipline to the practices of authentic inquiry, PBL, and integrated studies.
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A very interesting read about one of my favourite topics (and it seems, everyone else's...)"Critical thinking is trendy these days. With 6.3 million hits resulting from a Google search -- six times "Bloom's Taxonomy" -- its importance is undeniable. Worldwide, critical thinking (CT) is integrated into finger-painting lessons, units on Swiss immigrants, discussions of Cinderella, and the Common Core State Standards. In short, critical thinking is more beloved than Egyptian cotton"
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Interesting conversation starter, research inquiry or debating topic...
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Whether you are looking for resources related to integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or infusing arts, design, and humanities to transform STEM into STEAM, this curated compilation will help you strategize around different approaches to integrated studies.
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Some great projects here for integrated curriculum links...Creativity✅ and Critical Thinking✅
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What are the biggest problems in the world?
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Great ideas for Critical Thinking such as: A humane education activity in which students analyze an everyday item, such as an article of clothing, an electronic device, a food, etc., and ask the following questions: What are its effects, both positive and negative, on you as an individual consumer, on other people, on animals, and on the environment?What systems support, promote, and perpetuate it?What alternatives do more good and less harm, and if no alternative exists, what systems would need to change to make alternatives ubiquitous?
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Leading Children to Pursue their Passions in the Classroom
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Wish I was a kid in THIS classroom! Real student engagement...especially love the essential questions idea!
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Literacy, Creativity, & Play: 12 Apps That Should Be On Elementary School iPad So this collection wasn’t as easy to curate as it’d seem. It wasn’t a matter of simply choosing the best apps across...
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When I first became fascinated in inquiry-based approaches (too many years ago to say!), the focus for many of my conversations and indeed, my early research, was on how to plan. Back then, learning about inquiry helped me shift my thinking from planning thematically – or even in a more genuinely integrated way, to planning with a learning process in mind....Kath Murdoch
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Some very simple, practical ideas here, but this is my personal favourite...' let kids in on the secret – inquiry teachers have a transparent style'
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The word divergent is partly defined as "tending to be different or develop in different directions." Divergent thinking refers to the way the mind generates ideas beyond proscribed expectations and rote thinking -- what is usually referred to "thinking outside the box," and is often associated with creativity. Convergent thinking, on the other hand, requires one to restrict ideas to those that might be correct or the best solution to a problem.
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"Teachers also might find divergent thinking and behavior a challenge when students ignore directions and rules, and if we are honest with ourselves, display personality traits that operate outside societal norms..."
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A Minecraft-style game without the violence, MyDream lets kids complete quests, solve puzzles and even reinforce classroom content.
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The MyDream computer game allows students to manipulate a 3D environment while completing quests and solving puzzles within diverse and dazzling landscapes. A game where dreams can become realities, it’s packed with learning potential....“The best learning benefits from MyDream are teaching cooperation and creativity,” - the creator.
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A very creative way to introduce a student-led inquiry...with 'unGoogleable' questions using Bloom's taxonomy.