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With Exploratree you can:

* Use our ready-made thinking guides
* Make a new thinking guide from scratch
* Use it to set class projects
* Print them out (they can go as big as A0)
* Change and customise thinking guides, you can add or change text, shapes, images etc.
* As a teacher, you can set up the sequence that you want the thinking guide to be revealed in, so that you can stage the thinking activity
* You can fill in a thinking guide and complete your project on the website
* You can present your project
* You can send your thinking guide to a whole group of people
* You can submit a thinking guide for comments, so it can't be edited but just reviewed
* Work in groups on the same thinking guide

A compelling analysis of how 'critical thinking' models are misused in the history classroom.

And the price is this: facts learned in this way, and especially by rote, and especially at a younger age, take a direct route into the mind, and bypass a person's critical and reflective capacities, and indeed, become a part of those capacities in the future.

Not directly related to education, but something I think any educator should be interested in. Unless they're already dead-in-the-head. It happens, I guess.

Gallop World Poll some of the questions that reveal how the world thinks and so what are the questions that matter?

Hi! I'm Chuck Brown...and that's my face over there to the right (well, it's not exactly my face... but people think it looks a lot like me!). I'm your host for this site.

Light Up Your Brain is about inspiration, creativity, and the fun of being a kid.

I've assembled some great audio stories, games and links to outside resources.

Watching the Oscar-winning global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, I was struck by the similarities between climate change and education change. These seemingly unrelated crises on our planet and in our schools are, in fact, connected.

Both have taken many decades to develop and, at least in the United States, both originated in an industrial economy built on manufacturing. The effects of global warming and school decline are difficult to detect year to year, but over several generations, their impacts accumulate -- and are now converging to limit the future health of our economy and our society.

To reverse these declines, similar fundamental shifts in thinking and behavior will be required at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. Consuming less, recycling more, and the ethic of caring for the environment should begin with our youngest children, as modeled by their parents, teachers, and caregivers. It's the same with literacy, curiosity, and a love of learning. Just as green technologies can make energy consumption more efficient, learning technologies can play a key role in modernizing the learning process.

Dr. Seuss collaboration wiki project "And To Think That I Saw It On My Way To School"

simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following page.

you have sixty seconds to write about it.

as soon as you click 'go' the page will load with the cursor in place.

don't think. just write.

Great Post-teaching students to think!

Great presentation on visual thinking-visual literacy

Great overview of Edward de Bono's work. Excellent video!

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people.