Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

Thinking tools

• Brainpop http://tlcommunity.blogspot.com/2009/10/brainpop-recipe-for-success.html
• The Idiot Test – how do you get on?: http://tinyurl.com/m64crd
• Create a free quiz http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/
• Web 2.0 and Marzano’s Classroom Instruction That Works: http://tinyurl.com/6luo9q http://web2thatworks.com/index.php?title=Web_2.0_Tools
• Education resource: Graphic Organizers: “Help your students children classify ideas and.. http://bit.ly/TS2Na
• Lucid Charts for online collaboration and sharing of mindmaps http://lucidchart.com/
• Webspiration Plan lessons, stay organized and collaborate with peers…Webspiration examples for educators http://tinyurl.com/ybtyrgb http://mywebspiration.com/examples/educators
• Fab tool for thinking and Blooms http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm
• 50 Mindmapping tools for students http://associatedegree.org/2009/07/27/50-useful-mind-mapping-tools-for-college-students/
• Fab site Create graphic organizers and thinking tools http://creately.com/Free-K12-Education-Templates
• Great tools and applications for Inspiration, Kidspiration and other thinking tools http://tie584.wikispaces.com/Resources
• With Lovely Charts’ extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes or arrows, and you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.   http://lovelycharts.com/
• Wisdomap helps you to organise your thoughts in a powerful mind map format, and allows you to attach notes, videos, pictures, links and files to your map. The colourful, bright and clear maps engage the right side of the brain, while keeping notes and media outside the mind map itself ensures simplicity and clarity. http://wisdomap.com/
• Interactive tool to pick differentiated instruction http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/
• Del.icio.us links for mindmapping, visualization and thinking http://delicious.com/russeltarr/mindmapping
• 23 Things a Librarian liked on Web2 http://helloweb20.blogspot.com/
• Impressive list of higher order thinking skills, some links to lesson plans http://www.criticalthinking.org/resources/k12/TRK12-strategy-list.cfm and http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?CategoryID=63&endnav=1
• http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/INDEX.HTM
• Blooms Taxonomy in Flash http://faculty.ccconline.org/index.php?title=Blooms_Taxonomy_Tutorial_FLASH
• Methology to brainstorm and collaborate http://www.n8w.com/wp/1937
• Intel’s ranking tool for thinking http://educate.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/VisualRanking/Overview/
• Blooms Thinking analysis tool http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/07/16/blooms-activity-analysis-tool/
• The best resources for teachers to use Blooms in the classroom http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/the-best-resources-for-helping-teachers-use-blooms-taxonomy-in-the-classroom/
• Great tools: Create your own tools or use what is already online, you can also create games: http://classtools.net/

MindMapping tools

Thinking Skills and Tools

• Fab Checklists: All the Thinking skills and tools displayed as checklists.  You can rate students according to Often, Sometimes, Not Yet: http://www.tahoma.wednet.edu/SubSite/teachlearn/Thinking_Skills/toolchest.htm
• Great list of thinking tools, how to use each: http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/strategy.htm
• List of verbs for Blooms: http://edtech.clas.pdx.edu/presentations/frr99/blooms.htm
• A great resource: List of online sites and games to promote thinking and support the use of resources for thinking: http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/thinking/
• Thinking skills: http://www.linkingforlearning.com/L&L/#Blooms
• Thinking skills links: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/thinking.htm
• Thinking skills links and resources: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-thkg.htm
• Thinking according to VELS: http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdisciplinary/thinking/index.html
• Reading: Learning to develop Critical Thinking Skills: http://www.usyd.edu.au/stuserv/documents/learning_centre/critical.pdf
• Intel online tools: http://www.intel.com/education/projects/news/vol_07/elementary1.htm

Visual Data

Visual Search Tools

Spark discussion with the list of common misconceptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_misconceptions

Great reading:  Art Costa: Five thoughts for a thought-filled curriculum http://www.amshq.org/conference/houston/handouts/Costa_4_3_06.pdf

Thinking Games

• http://www.exploratorium.edu/brain_explorer/
• http://www.theproblemsite.com/default.asp

Blooms Taxonomy

• Fab tool for thinking and Blooms http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm
• Here is an application of Bloom’s Taxonomy, with applications in Digital applications.  For more information, go to http://techlearning.com/article/article.aspx?Id=8670
• Bloom’s Taxonomy tied to Web2.0 tools – handy! #edtech: http://tinyurl.com/qdu7o4
• Blooms Taxonomy in Flash http://faculty.ccconline.org/index.php?title=Blooms_Taxonomy_Tutorial_FLASH
• Blooms Thinking digital analysis tool http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/07/16/blooms-activity-analysis-tool/

• Use these Blooms Taxonomy sentence stems to get students to ask better questions: http://ow.ly/8Qfs and http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm
• Blooms Taxonomy grids to download, on various themes: http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/teachers/tech_based_resources/mi_pages/index.htm

De Bono

• http://www.bssc.edu.au/public/learning_teaching/pd/toc/datt.shtml
• http://www.12manage.com/methods_bono_six_thinking_hats.html
• Summary of the six thinking hats:
• http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm
• How to use PMI: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_05.htm
• Image of Six thinking hats mind map

Pirozzo Grid

• Pirozzo Grid template: http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/teachers/tech_based_resources/mi_pages/MIBT_UNITS/42%20Grid%20upgraded.doc

Multiple Intelligences

• Multiple intelligence questionaire: Find your strength: http://literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html
• Visual Multiple Intelligence tests: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm
• Fab resource: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm
• http://www.casacanada.com/howcan.html
• http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/multiintell/index.htm
• http://www.eduratireview.com/2009/07/conspiracy-theories-patterns-teaching.html