learning+and+thinking+tools

=Learning and Thinking tools=

Many schools are starting to make use of strategies from the programmes below to enhance student learning. If you are an 'inquiry' school, many of these will be familiar to you. The different strategies are excellent ways to enrich your teaching and change the way students critically access, analyse and use information. As such, they fit well with the thinking underpinning the Technology Curriculum.

21st Century Learning styles
Graphic Organisers - Learning/Thinking organisers. Particularly useful to engage students in **Research, Brief Development and Planning for Practice**. A selection of these will offer students a wider variety of ways of displaying their thinking - something is bound to click that will encourage them to communicate their thinking more effectively. This is a really good page on Andrew Churches - Educational Origami site which contains all sorts of rubrics and links to learning and thinking tools that would help when thinking about integrating the front end of the curriculum into your programmes. Andrew's site is comprehensive - The screenshot below shows just part of the index available!
 * ICT teachers will really appreciate the material here.** There are even assessment rubrics for Web 2.0 tools.

I've googled some of the terms below and found websites that provide information on the tools. If you find other links, feel free to put them up.

Three Storey Intellect
http://www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au/assessment/practice/task_design.htm http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+and+the+Three+Storey+Intellect

Bloom's Taxonomy
[| Blooms.doc] [|Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives] [|Bloom's Revised Taxonomy] http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy [|Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain] http://officeport.com/edu/blooms.htm

Learning Styles / Multiple Intelligences
http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm [|questionnaire] [|learning styles online] [|reading] http://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html http://www.cortland.edu/psych/mi/measure.html [|Test] [|Technology and MI]

Action Learning
http://del.icio.us/tudor.rose/actionresearch

**Habits of Mind**
[|links to other sites] http://members.tripod.com/~ozpk/0habits

Thinkers Keys
[| thinker's keys.doc]

Six Thinking Hats
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/SixThinkingHatsWorksheet.pdf

Six thinking Shoes
http://www.improvementnetwork.gov.uk/imp/aio/1033484

Graphic Organinsers
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ http://www.tki.org.nz/r/integration/curriculum/resources/inquiry_gos/plan_e.php

Thinking maps
http://www.mapthemind.com/thinkingmaps/thinkingmaps.html http://www.thinkingmaps.com/

Ignorance Questions
http://cals.arizona.edu/futures/ref/ignorance.html

Fertile Questioning
http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/Colleagues/files/links/Movie_1__1.wmv http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/learning_workroom/pages/default/creativityTools/

A Questioning Toolkit
http://fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html http://fno.org/nov97/toolkit2.html

Solo Taxonomy
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/solo.htm http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/downloads/Biggs_Solo.pdf