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Movement Against Standardized Testing Grows As Parents Opt Out - 0 views

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shared by Sean Dagony-Clark on 05 May 12 - No Cached

Sean Dagony-Clark on 05 May 12

On the growing trend of public school students (and parents) opting out of standardized tests.

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What Do Test Scores Tell Us? - 0 views

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shared by Ben Lesch on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached

Ben Lesch on 22 Sep 11

The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags:The Stone is featuring occasional posts by Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, that apply critical thinking to information and events that have appeared in the news.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags:The Stone is featuring occasional posts by Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, that apply critical thinking to information and events that have appeared in the news.</div>

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APPitic - 1,300+ EDUapps - 1 views

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shared by meg krause on 11 Dec 11 - No Cached

meg krause on 11 Dec 11

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators to help teachers transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators to help teachers transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. </div>

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Creativity Test: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking - 2 views

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shared by peter simon on 26 Sep 11 - Cached

Sean Dagony-Clark on 27 Sep 11

The Figural TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Pictures is appropriate at all levels, kindergarten through adult. It uses three picture-based exercises to assess five mental characteristics: · fluency · resistance to premature closure · elaboration · abstractness of titles · originality

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Figural TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Pictures is appropriate at all levels, kindergarten through adult. It uses three picture-based exercises to assess five mental characteristics: · fluency · resistance to premature closure · elaboration · abstractness of titles · originality</div>

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The Creativity Crisis - The Daily Beast - 1 views

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shared by Sean Dagony-Clark on 01 Dec 11 - No Cached

To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).
- Sean Dagony-Clark on 01 Dec 11
  
  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_and_divergent_production for Guilford's divergent/convergent thinking
  
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What’s shocking is how incredibly well Torrance’s creativity index predicted those kids’ creative accomplishments as adults.
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The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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facts and familiar solutions
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scan remote memories that could be vaguely relevant
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searches for unseen patterns, alternative meanings, and high-level abstractions.
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In a flash, the brain pulls together these disparate shreds of thought and binds them into a new single idea that enters consciousness
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Now the brain must evaluate the idea it just generated
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Highly creative people are very good at marshaling their brains into bilateral mode
- Sean Dagony-Clark on 01 Dec 11
  
  ...and good at navigating the taxonomies!
  
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When faculty of a major Chinese university asked Plucker to identify trends in American education, he described our focus on standardized curriculum, rote memorization, and nationalized testing. “After my answer was translated, they just started laughing out loud,” Plucker says. “They said, ‘You’re racing toward our old model. But we’re racing toward your model, as fast as we can.’ ”
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