Religious Studies Teacher » Thinking Skills http://rsteacher.edublogs.org A blog about things I find interesting Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Lots about looms Taxonomy http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2008/04/06/lots-about-looms-taxonomy/ http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2008/04/06/lots-about-looms-taxonomy/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:01:47 +0000 Jackie Blackman http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2008/04/06/lots-about-looms-taxonomy/ educational-origami » Bloom’s and ICT tools

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A wiki which has lots of links and information about thinking skills and creativity. There are  many tools to use here – well worth a look

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Information about Blooms taxonomy

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A number of different problem solving tools, including graphic organisers

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]]> http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/blooms-taxonomy-diagram/feed/ 0 NUT Publication – Teacher research into using thinking Skills in the Classroom http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/12/30/nut-publication-teacher-research-into-using-thinking-skills-in-the-classroom/ http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/12/30/nut-publication-teacher-research-into-using-thinking-skills-in-the-classroom/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:37:30 +0000 Jackie Blackman http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/12/30/nut-publication-teacher-research-into-using-thinking-skills-in-the-classroom/ http://www.teachers.org.uk/resources/pdf/thinking-skills-2913.pdf

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  • A visual ranking tool
  • A seeing reason tool
  • A showing evidence tool

There are also various teaching resources, although none are specifically for Religious Studies

Worth a look

]]> http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/27/intel-education-initiative/feed/ 0 Accelerated learning http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/accelerated-learning/ http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/accelerated-learning/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:32:39 +0000 Jackie Blackman http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/accelerated-learning/ For anyone interested in Accelerated Learning, here is the archive of newsletters from Alistar Smith’s Alite site

http://www.alite.co.uk/newsletters/index.htm

On the same page you will also be able to subscribe to the newsletter

]]> http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/accelerated-learning/feed/ 0 Some interesting articles to read about thinking, motivating students etc http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/some-interesting-articles-to-read-about-thinking-motivating-students-etc/ http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/some-interesting-articles-to-read-about-thinking-motivating-students-etc/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:37:53 +0000 Jackie Blackman http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/some-interesting-articles-to-read-about-thinking-motivating-students-etc/ The following readings have all come from Alistar Smith’s Accelerated Learning site which is well worth a browse. There were other readings on the site – these are just the ones that looked most interesting to me

All you need to know about motivation by Alistar Smith

Some ideas for motivating students by Robert Harris

Forget the marking – start talking

From thinking skills to thinking classrooms by Carol McGuiness

Thinking for learning by Alistar Smith

Are you the real McCoy yet? by David Spendlove

“Pick a brain” - Gardner’s multiple intelligences

The truth about boys and girls by Jerry Gabriel

Inside the Black Box – raising standards throuh classroom assessement by Dylan William and Paul Black

Theories of learning by Ian Harris

]]> http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/some-interesting-articles-to-read-about-thinking-motivating-students-etc/feed/ 0 An Introduction to Higher Order Thinking Skills http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/an-introduction-to-higher-order-thinking-skills/ http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/an-introduction-to-higher-order-thinking-skills/#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:50:47 +0000 Jackie Blackman http://rsteacher.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/an-introduction-to-higher-order-thinking-skills/ An Introduction to Higher Order Thinking Skills: An exploration of aspects of learning and thinking and how ICT can be used to support these processes written by Don Passey of Lancaster University. Includes infomation about Bloom’s Taxonomy, Learning Styles, National Curriculum, De Bono and using ICT. This is a pdf document.

http://www.portal.northerngrid.org/ngflportal/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/1302/IntroductiontoHOTS.pdf

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