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CCT News

23 April 2012
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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor

Student Matters

Registration continues for summer and fall 2012 courses:
Summer 2012 courses:
Face-to-face courses:
CRCRTH 601 "Critical Thinking," M-Th 3:00pm-6:00pm, July 9-July 26, McCormack Hall room M02-0208, Class #1907
CRCRTH 618 "Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change," Fr, Sa July 13-28, 9:00am-4:15pm, McCormack Hall room M02-0209 , Class #1909
consisting of three two-day workshops (Diversity Awareness, Cultivating Collaboration, Facilitating Participatory Planning and Design)
CRCRTH 688 "Reflective Practice," (1 credit), July 20-21, McCormack Hall room M02-0209, Class #1911
Online courses:
CRCRTH 612 "Seminar in Creative Thinking", theme: "Inside the Creative Process: Exploring Blocks and Finding Creative Ground" May 29-July 12, Class #1908
CRCRTH 619 "Biomedical Ethics," online, July 16-Aug 23, Class #191
CRCRTH 627 "Issues in Antiracist and Multicultural Education", May 29-Jul 12, Class #3424

"Marathon Day" for students
Saturday May 19th, 2012, 10:00am-4:00pm, W-02-157.
A day to work in the company of peers to finish Synthesis projects, course Incompletes, mid-program check-ins, and Reflective Practice Portfolios. All students welcome to join at any time throughout the day.

Commencement is Friday, June 1st.

CCT Community
"Lineage"
an exhibit of mixed-media paintings by Alison Palmucci (current CCT student)
Open for viewing between May 1 - May 31, 2012
UMass Boston, Healey Library, Grossman Gallery (5th floor of Healey Library, on balcony walls)
Opening reception, 2:00-4:00pm, Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at the Grossman Gallery, Healey Library.

The 2012 Convocation book prize has been awarded to graduating CCT student, Lorna Riach. For citation, see files/award.html

Felicia Sullivan, CCT staff and instructor, has been awarded with the Teaching with Technology Award, to be given at the upcoming Center for the Improvement of Teaching/Educational Technology conference at UMass Boston on May 10th.

Presentations by CCT faculty at upcoming CIT/Educational Technology Conference (see Events below for more details):
11:10am-12:20pm: Promoting Online Collaboration: Bob Schoenberg, Venitra Hollingsworth, and Thomas Stubblefield
11:10am-12:20pm: Tools for Reflection and Community-building, Face2Face and Online, with Peter Taylor, Felicia Sullivan, and Jeremy Szteiter

CCT Events
CCT Open House
Synthesis and Reflective Practice Presentations
Monday, April 30 and Tuesday, May 1, 2012
3:00-9:00pm, both days (see the schedule - attend individual presentations as you can)
Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Room 2540
Open to all. Refreshments will be served.
Join us and attend presentations of students completing their Synthesis (CRCRTH 694) and Reflective Practice (CRCRTH 688) projects.

Cambridge Science Festival
Thursday, April 26th: Health: What's Race got to do with it?, 7:00-8.30pm, with Peter Taylor (Location: Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge)
Saturday, April 28th: Dialogue & Collaborative Exploration, any time from > 10:00am-4:00pm, with Science in a Changing World graduate track (Location: MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, Rm 32-124)

Alum and CCT associates Notes
Upcoming music performances by CCT instructor Ben Schwendener:
Fri. Apr. 27, 7:00pm: Living Geometry IX (Rivers School Conservatory, Rivera Hall 333 Winter St., Weston, MA)
Sun. Apr. 29, 7:00-8:00pm: Night Song (First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA)
Fri. May 4, 2:00-4:00pm: Student performance of original works based on George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept
Mon. May 7, 6:00pm: Ben Schwendener Trio on BNN-TV (ch. 9), "It's All About Arts" (http://itsallaboutarts.com/cableshow.htm)
Fri. May 11, 7:30pm: Ben Schwendener Trio at the Taylor House B&B (50 Burroughs St., Jamaica Plain, MA)

Bob Schoenberg, who teaches the online version of Critical Thinking, is conducting a Critical Thinking Training Program for TACO, Inc. based in Cranston, RI. Participants include engineers, HR, sales, marketing and accounting in addition to some vice presidents of the Company. Bob is the author of Critical Thinking in Business and also has an interview of the book on YouTube. See - http://www.criticalthinkinginbusiness.com/
Link to Youtube (Critical Thinking in Business) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_ChYoGIPM

Events
Cambridge Science Festival
Thursday, April 26th: Health: What's Race got to do with it?, 7:00-8.30pm, with Peter Taylor
Saturday, April 28th: Dialogue & Collaborative Exploration, any time from 10:00am-4:00pm, with Science in a Changing World graduate track

2012 CIT / Educational Technology Conference: "Transforming Teaching and Learning"
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 8:00am - 4:00pm.
Various locations throughout Healey Library, UMass Boston.
Visit this page to register and see the full schedule
The conference includes several workshops, talks, and presentations around innovations in teaching and enhancing student learning, including use of educational technology.

2nd Annual UMB Teacher Education Symposium: "Learning in Action"
Saturday, May 12th, 2012. 9:00am-1:15pm. Various locations throughout Wheatley Hall, UMass Boston. Free and open to all.
Featuring multiple sessions with presentations from faculty on topics across all areas of teaching and learning.
Sponsored by the CEHD Department of Curriculum and Instruction, with collaboration from the Teacher Education program, Teach Next Year, Boston Teacher Residency, and Boston Science Partnership.

Opportunities
Call for Papers: Conflict Studies Conference (Oct. 19-20, 2012 at UMass Boston)
due date for proposals: April 30, 2012
For more details and to submit proposals: http://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/conflict_studies_conference/

Haley Pilot School paid internship for graduate students for 2012-13 school year. Includes stipend, access to professional development, and opportunity to learn in an innovative pilot school within the Boston Public Schools. For more nfo, contact Ronan FitzPatrick, rfitzpatrick@boston.k12.ma.us

Resources

A collection of resources on critical thinking

Five Great Motivational Videos for Your Students

Poll: Many Link Weather Extremes to Climate Change

Nature Works Everywhere: a resource for teachers


Food for Thought

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on "Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”
and the World Happiness Report

John Cleese's Five Factors to be Creative

Killed at Home: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/29/killed_at_home_white_plains_ny

Does A College Education Have To Cost So Much?

Humor

Creative Family Photos:
"Jason who is a wedding photographer started taking photos of his two little daughters back in 2006 when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with colds and coughs so he couldn’t always bring them to visit their grandmother. Jason wanted her to be able to see her granddaughters without catching their kid germs so he started a blog where his mom could see what was going on in their lives."