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23/04/2011 - "Combining thinking skills scaffolding, Philosophy for Children practices and MI theory, Ian took the eight intelligences (in no particular order): 1. Logical/Mathematical 2. Verbal/Linguistic 3. Interpersonal 4. Intrapersonal 5. Naturalistic 6. Body/Physical 7. Musical 8. Visual/Spatial And (over) simplified them into: 1. Numbers 2. Words 3. People 4. Feelings 5. Nature 6. Actions 7. Sounds 8. Sights Imagine putting these areas on each side of an octagon. Then you take what it is you want to explore, put it in the middle of the octagon and then simply work around each area asking questions to begin with. So, for example, if your topic was, say, 'beer' (I am typing this on a Friday night) you might come up with questions like: 1. How much beer is drunk in the UK each Friday night? 2. Where does the word 'beer' come from? 3. Who invented beer and why? 4. What sort of emotions do advertisers try and associate with beer in their marketing? 5. What are the natural ingredients of beer and where are they grown? 6. What are the various stages in the beer-making process? 7. What songs have been written about beer and its effects? 8. In TV and magazine advertising, how is beer portrayed?"

18/08/2010 - Thinking Skills tools, the most obviously useful of which is "Dot Dash", a simple mind-mapping application that offers images, text and coloured backgrounds.

17/3/09 - Huge amounts of information on Bloom's Taxonomy and other aspects of thinking skills.

9/12/07 - 60 pages of ideas and frameworks for developing different thinking skills.

19/4/09 - "How to Teach a Child to Argue. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony." This could have great application in P4C / thinking skills, or just conflict resolution. Essentially, it focuses on arguments/persuasive rhetoric founded in logic, reputation and emotion.

29/3/09 - Thinking Skills: word, number and logic games.

21/03/2011 - A taxonomy of reflection; from remembering to creating. There are plenty of other thinking skills ideas on the site too.

Bloom's taxonomy, thinking skills, 6 hat thinking - articles, resources and information.

Tony Ryan's Thinker's Keys, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (SMARTS) and Edward deBono's Six Thinking Hats, as well as other higher-order thinking skills - well worth bookmarking.

"Aspiroweb - training for thinking, learning, creativity and success" - suggestions for books, downloadable resources, research and articles on thinking skills and creativity in the classroom.

13/10/07 - Run by a Maltese teacher, this site has an excellent introduction to Six Hat thinking.

24/2/08 - "Bloom's Taxonomy (Revised) SOLO Fogarty's 3 storey intellect Fertile questions and rich tasks Learning Pathways de Bono's Thinking Hats"

29/3/09 - "A Program Designed to Encourage Kids to Think Outside of the Box...Challenges will be posted weekly".

26/8/08 - Clarifying what we want children to achieve in terms of remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating or creating.

13/7/08 - Coherent and interesting article, well worth reading.

23/8/07 - Thinking Skills Games for use on the IWB

10/2/08 - Thinking skills and engaging children.

"Transum.org is an eclectic mix of free webware." Maths activities and thinking skills. Plus, bizarrely, Thai recipes!

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