@web20classroom Someone said use critical thinking in a different way. Don't remember who was it. #edchat #edchat

WPI Teaching with Technology Collaboratory - Promoting Student Collaboration
To increase the degree to which students collaborate with one another to promote learning course content.Benefits of AddressingConsiderable research indicates that when students collaborate with one another they...Engage in more discussion, problem...

@tcabeen You do have a point, ...as always. Drat it. You are my nemesis when it comes to deep critical thinking.

My Languages: From Thinking Skills to Thinking Classrooms
"... for ICT to support the devel[o]pment of Thinking Skills, there is a need to move away from the traditional ICT-based activities of drilling and practising skills such as grammar, spelling and out-of-context vocabulary recall.• Interactive...

@Gennefer @Jsto responding to your critical thinking argument. Just going for the funny. Apparently that got lost in the tweet translation.

Critical thinking is an unnatural form of thinking. Yet it is critical that we practise it... not all the time of... http://fb.me/3eiFHmf

Great tip for cultivating critical thinking among students - http://www.zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/ (via @lemire)

Learning Through Structured Reflection « Tomorrow's Professor Blog
Nice overview on the significance and value of reflection. Would be discussing how this process could be undertaken with blogs, and in turn the discursive opportunities that would then emerge via commenting.

Is somebody watching Tim Minchin’s cholesterol?
I don’t fall in love as often as I used to. When I was young, I ran into something new to love every time I turned around. Like Kurt Vonnegut. Like fresh guacamole. Like sex with others, like Richard Dawkins.Like deeelicious sentential ambiguity.I...

Olin & Uris Libraries, Cornell University. "Critically Analyzing Information Sources." September 2009.
Nice overview of how to evaluate sources (not just web sources).

Does staff writing discourage critical thinking? Is a generic byline useful to critical readers? #journalism @vark

Boycott Israel
... to end the Military Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

@Shoq What you are doing wrong? Wasting precious photons on recycled "power of positive thinking." Me, I'm bullish on critical thinking.

Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays
So far money was the ultimate abstraction in capitalism; no the goods that money can buy have joined them: Silicon Valley has discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist.