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Thinking Methods or Strategies

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...

Good for more background on Thinking Routines as related to the Look to Learn approach.

Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment. A routine can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks.

See? Think? Wonder?

Take the test and compare your results with other famous and not so famous people. Inform each other of what you look like as a 'thinker'.

What do you think? What would students say if they took this test? What would we say about ourselves?

How do you know if you're already addicted or rapidly tumbling toward trouble? The Internet Addiction Test is the first validated and reliable measure of addictive use of the Internet.

His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.