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Resources to support schools in implementing project-based learning.

'By the end of these tutorials... you should have acquired basic skills of argument mapping, and have a deeper understanding of the nature of reasoning and argumentation.'

two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at school ages 8 to 10, or kids between the ages of 13 and 15, but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government.

"Baloney Detection Kit" for grown-ups from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Shermer - a 10-point checklist for assessing the believability of a claim

A ready-to-use curriculum developed by ISTE and Microsoft, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstrations.

If properly developed, it can guide and empower them the rest of their lives. Its other pluses: # Comes universally pre-installed, free of charge # Has no socio-economic barriers to "adoption" # Is automatically customized in micro detail as it's used # Works at the "operating system" level # Not only doesn't conflict with, but supports and enhances, all other "applications" # Improves with use # Is the No. 1 online-safety tool.

washington state university - , to highlight the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across traditional boundaries of viewpoint, practice, and discipline.