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19 March 2013
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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor
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Student Matters

Summer courses: http://caps-courses.umb.edu/courses/summer/cr/gr/crcrth/
Additional details to be added to the CCT web site and in future announcements.

CCT Summer Institute (July 15 - August 3):
Take any combination of these face-to-face/hybrid courses:
CRCRTH 611 Seminar in Critical Thinking, Theme: Design for Complexities of Life (MTuWTh 4:00-7:00pm)
CRCRTH 612 Seminar in Creative Thinking, Theme: Creative Thinking at Work (MTuWTh 7:00-10:00pm)
CRCRTH 618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and Organizational Change (FrSa 9:00am-4:15pm; face-to-face only)
CRCRTH 688 Reflective Practice (July 26-27 only, 9:00am-4:15pm)

Fully Online courses:
CRCRTH 611 Seminar in Critical Thinking, Theme: Critical Thinking in Business (July 15 - August 22)
CRCRTH 612 Seminar in Creative Thinking, Theme: Exploring Creative Blocks (May 28 - July 11)
CRCRTH 619 Biomedical Ethics (July 15 - August 22)
CRCRTH 627 Issues and Controversies in Antiracist and Multicultural Education (May 28 - July 11)

Summer registration begins: April 1
Spring '13 Withdraw deadline: April 11

CCT Community
Peter Taylor will lead a session on "Dialogue and Collaborative Exploration" at the Cambridge Science Festival, Saturday, April 20th. See CCT Events below for more details.

CCT Events
CCT Community Open House: Teaching in the Key of CCT - Teaching for and with critical and creative thinking and reflective practice at the graduate level
Monday, April 1, 6:45-9:00pm, Campus Center 3540
All are welcome to join a discussion and activities that help us to explore what it means to teach critical and creative thinking.

Cambridge Science Festival
2013: Dialogue and Collaborative Exploration
Saturday, April 20, 2013
10:00am-4:00pm
New dialogues starting at 10am, 11:15am, 12:30pm, 1:45pm, and 3pm. For list of provisional topics, see http://sicw.wikispaces.com/DialogueHours#CSF
MIT Bldg 4-145, 182 Memorial Dr., Cambridge
The Science in a Changing World graduate program at UMass Boston is hosting a series of hour-long dialogues in which participants will explore topics such as "Is the new genomics reconfiguring race?" and "the democratic control of science" (starting 10, 11.15, 12.30, 1.45, 3) Participants will gain experience of a valuable model for group interaction in education, policy, and other areas of civic engagement. This event is offered in conjunction with the New England Workshop on Science and Social Change, which has since 2004 organized innovative, interaction-intensive, international workshops designed to facilitate discussion, teaching innovation, and longer-term collaboration about interactions between scientific developments and social change.
(Subject to confirmation) This event is hosted at MIT by the Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies.


Alum and CCT associates Notes


Events
3rd Conference on Creative Education, Beijing, China
May 24-26, 2013
2013 Conference on Creative Education(CCE2013) dedicates to creating a stage for exchanging the latest research results and sharing the advanced research methods. For more information, fees, registration, paper submissions: www.creativedu.org/cce/2013/home.aspx
Submissions of papers/abstracts due by March 20, 2013.

Opportunities
Essay Prize in Informal Logic/Critical Thinking/Argumentation Theory
The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) invites submissions for the 2013 AILACT Essay Prize ($300). Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical thinking, and papers on argumentation theory, will be considered for the prize. For full details and requirements, see: http://ailact.wordpress.com/essay-prize/

Resources
The Graduate Writing Center (GWC) offers one-to-one tutoring to students who are in the process of completing graduate coursework at UMass Boston, and who are willing to meet with a tutor over the course of several weeks. Students may apply for GWC tutoring in-person at Academic Support Programs (CC-1-1300) Monday-Thursday 8:30-6:00, and Friday 9:00-5:00.
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions list, which explains our pedagogy and policies:
http://graduatewritingcenter.wikispaces.umb.edu/FAQs+about+the+GWC

Food for Thought
Article: U.S. wealth inequality, visually: http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/wealth-inequality/
Video: All in a day's work: Banker Saves Duck Family: http://www.wimp.com/bankerducklings/
Article: Born This Way? focuses on mental health consequences and practices around how people are able to gender identify and be identified.
Article: Brain Map: President Obama Proposes First Detailed Guide of Human Brain Function
Article: How Innovation Happens (And Why It Doesn’t, When It Doesn’t)
Article: 4 Genius Ways Real People Are Getting Hired and see also, 10 Creative Social Media Resumes To Learn From
Article: Pizza Hut Perfume Now Available In U.S.
Video: Dan Ariely: The Truth About Dishonesty
The Unconscious Brain and Decision-Making
Editorial: Why Your Children Should Do Chores
Video: An Oncologist's Take on [IBM's] Watson
Article: On digital rights, and cultural heritage.
Article: Study: Most Employees Are Only Average at Critical Thinking
Article: Creative thinking starts with folk-tale drama: A Wilmington child psychotherapist studies the benefits of interactive imaginative play
Article: Monkeys Stay Away from Mean People

Humor
A breakdown of the types of creative blocks