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Critical Thinking Resources
The Center for Critical Thinking conducts advanced research and disseminates information about the theory and practice of critical thinking
http://www.sonoma.edu/cthink/default.html
Teaching Ideas: Critical Thinking from National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org/teach/thinking/
"Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines is published by the Institute for Critical Thinking at Montclair State University as a forum for the discussion of
issues related to critical thinking across the disciplines, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of critical thinking in post-secondary educational contexts."
http://www.shss.montclair.edu/inquiry/inquiry.html
How Can We Teach Critical Thinking? by Kathryn S. Carr. ERIC Digest. Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.
http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/eece/pubs/digests/1990/carr90.html
Literacy
Sites Addressing Reading, Writing & Information Literacy.
Big Six Skills Information Problem-Solving Approach to Library & Information Skills Instruction http://ericir.syr.edu/big6/bigsix.html
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.ed.gov/free/
From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal in support of Engaged Learning
http://fromnowon.org/
International Development Coordinating Committee
http://www.reading.org/councils/idc.coo.htm/
International Literacy Institute
http://ili2.literacy.upenn.edu/ILI
International Reading Association Promoting Literacy in Europe
http://www.aps.nl/vo/talen/idec.htm/
Link to Learn : Professional Develiopment
Helping educators and students Integrate technology into the classroom.
http://l2l.ed.psu.edu
Media Literacy Online Project ~ University of Oregon ~ Eugene, Oregon
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/HomePage#Database
State of Art : Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning to read
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/StateArt/Read
TeachNet supports and encourages teachers to be leaders curriculum developers mentors & peer coaches researchers & policymakers
http://teachnet.org
Technology Tutorials (Link2Learn Professional Development)
Self-paced technology tutorials designed to help you get up and running on the Internet quickly and easily.
http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/linktuts/tutmain.htm
Libraries and Library Organizations
Includes link to ICONnect http://www.ala.org/ICONN, which offers a variety of free online courses designed for different levels od ability in using Internet.
http://www.ala.org/aasl
International Association of School
Librarianship(IASL)
http://www.rhi.hi.is/~anne/iasl.html
Science Education
Whelmers. "Science activities that will catch the eye and mind of even the most indifferent student."
http://www.mcrel.org/whelmers
Thinking Fountain offers surprising, gross, funny, personal connections to science. It is a living card file full of ideas and activities. The goal is to encourage
questioning and inquiry.
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/
Media
Media outlets that frequently cover the regions
of Central & Eastern European and former Soviet Union.
Budapest Week
http://www.euroweb.hu/bpweek
Central Europe Online
http://www.centraleurope.com
Electronic New Presence:
A weekly Internet Journal of Central European affairs
http://www.enp.cz
European Journalism Page
http://www.demon.co.uk/eurojournalism/
International Herald Tribute
http://www.iht.com
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com
The Prague Post
http://www.pragepost.cz
Transitions
http://www.ijt.cz/transitions
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Central & Eastern Europe / Former Soviet Union
Central and Eastern Europe Resources for BSU Boise State University
http://www.idbsu.edu/history/nmiller
Vaclav Havel--Challenges of Our Time: Selected Speeches and Writings, 1990-1998
http://sco1.hrad.cz/president/Havel/speeches/index_uk.html
Center for Democracy and Technology (3/00)
Report on internet Access in Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.cdt.org./international/ceeaccess/
Videos on Critical Thinking
Titles:
A Focus on Thinking
These two 30 minute videos feature RWCT Volunteer, Faye Brownlie, teaching Aconnecting, processing, and transforming and personalizing, much like
Evocation/Realization of Meaning/Reflection framework. Features
live classroom segments, K - to senior secondary. - Offered by The Video Journal
A Best Practices in Teaching: Reading and Writing in the Elementary Classroom A three part series covering
the following topics:
Video 1: What is a Balanced Reading and Writing Program? - Developing Phonemic Awareness - Developing Phonemic Awareness - Teaching Phonics - Spelling
Video 2: Supporting Emergent Readers and Writers - Organizing for Teaching with Literature - Teaching with Guided Reading - Helping Students Become Strategic
Readers
Video 3: Focusing on Words - Reading Across the Curriculum - Teaching the Writing Process - Using Assessment to Inform Instruction
- Offered by Allyn and Bacon
A Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms (1991) A six-part national teacher training video series with viewers guides covering:
* The Reading/Writing Connection
* Emergent Literacy
* Teaching Reading Comprehension: Experience and Text
* Teaching Word Identification
* Fostering a Literate Culture
* Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms
Offered by the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
A What is Reading? This documentary video features the reading process, and targets the parent/teacher audience, offering viewers a A window on the reading
process. - Offered by Literacy Possibilities
A Whole Language: A New Zealand Approach Written by Pam Coote & Ron Stevens
Video 1: Away to a Good Start with Reading and Language.@ (18 min.) A class of new entrants is shown working co-operatively and independently throughout a
morning programme. We examine the classroom organisation and routines (including involvement of parent helpers) which enable this to happen and demonstrate
ways that reading/language abilities are developed.
Video 2: AUsing Whole Language: A Means to an End@ (14 min.) Shows ideas from several classrooms and
suggested activities to make your programme more interesting, more relevant and more effective in helping children to speak, read and write.
Video 3: AIt Takes Time to Become a Good Reader@ (14 min.) If you want to run an individualised programme
you will be helped by this tape. The reasons why children in a Standard 4 class show exceptional sophistication
in their appreciation of literature are examined. Includes the roles of research and written language.
Video 4: AEvaluation in Whole Language Programmes@ (20 min) A new look at evaluation which takes the
pressure off both child and teacher. A range of performance aspects and ways of evaluating them with immediate feedback into class programmes are examined.
Offered by Christchurch College of Education CCE Video Production Unit
A Literature, Literacy & Learning (22mins.)
This was created for Library Media Specialists, Reading Specialists and Classroom Teachers. It presents new
and revitalized approaches to language arts, whole language, integrated language arts, and literature-based
curriculum. It features many classroom examples. Narrated by Dorothy S. Strickland, Teachers College,
Columbia University. ISBN 0-8347-5255-7 - Offered by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation
Sources:
Heinemann Educational Books http://www.heinemann.com.
The Video Journal 1-800-572-1153
Center for the Study of Reading, College of Education, University of Illinois, Champaign, Il 61820.
Allyn and Bacon, www.abacon.com.
Literacy Possibilities, P.O. Box 220 Orange, California 92666
CCE Video Production Unit, Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch, NZ
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 310 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604.
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