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@Mike: It may be useful to use this article as an introduction to the New Scientist article in the CCC class as students tend to find that article very difficult. There's also an other article from the same guy where he claims that speaking English causes people to save less money. Follow this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21518574

This is very interesting. I wonder the extent to which the language itself might well reflect values/way of thinking, though. Perhaps your 'saving' cultures developed language structures like this partly because these structures fit in with their values.

Is it a strategy? A skill? A tactic? Are they interchangable? There is an interesting discussion beginning after the blog too.

David Perkin's keynote address from the International Conference on Thinking. It is quite long (an hour) so I haven't watched it yet but think it should be worthwhile.

It is very interesting especially as he gives a clear overview of the development of the 'teaching thinking' movement. What I found the most interesting is his focus on getting students alert and motivated before expecting them to deal with thinking tools (starts at 39.01) . If anyone is interested in watching this but unwilling to deal with the unreliable Internet at school, I downloaded the file so you can get a copy from my computer.

Could be interesting o try...perhaps IPC growing out of work on identity???

This woman's body of research is amazing, especially in regard to Elder and Paul's Critical Thinking Concepts

Thought this might be useful for Development teachers.

Augmentation of Jeremy's link.

I thought this article was interesting in relation to the idea of applying a text to yourself. I don't think our students on the whole have the problem of personalizing too much when they read (at the expense of understanding the writer's point) but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.

More on the quest for the balance between being supportive and helpful and backing off so students develop autonomy and perseverance in the messy work of learning.

I can almost hear the students saying "but where is the cause and effect marker????" (as neatly provided by making connections!)

How people learn...

Over 200 free online courses from a range of universities.

I have a friend who took one of these free courses (statistics) and was very impressed.

Google has taken Wittgenstein's theory of language and created a new kind of search engine. Their own presentation of this  'Knowledge Graph' can be found at:  http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html

Thinking about thinking to think about learning . The PRACTICAL purposes of learning or ACTIVE outcomes of learning are worth noticing

Useful thinking about thinking resouece

Forests and trees

I have the book mentioned in the article (Making Learning Whole) if anyone is interested in reading it. Despite my hatred of baseball, the book captured my attention and fully milks the sports metaphor in a useful way.

This is a very useful site for phonetics. For each IPA symbol they play an audio recording plus you get an animated diagram of the mouth position, step by step pronunciation descriptions, and a video clip of someone making the sound. Only available for American English (or German or Spanish).

Jeremy ,thanks. Think it could go to students' groups to.

that is ,tooo