News2015July
News from the Graduate Program in Critical & Creative Thinking
University of Massachusetts Boston2 July 2015
Student Matters
Spaces remain in these summer 2015 Critical and Creative Thinking courses: CCT students and non-degree students may register.
CRCRTH 611 Seminar in Critical Thinking (online). Theme: Critical Thinking in Business. July 13 - Aug. 20. Register for class #1968.
CRCRTH 618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and Organizational Change (hybrid) July 17 - Aug. 1, Fr,Sa; 9:00-4:15pm. Face-to-face students register for class #2316, online students register for #2317.
CRCRTH 619 Biomedical Ethics (online). July 13 - Aug. 20. Register for class #1970.
Fall 2015 courses: current students may register now, and non-degree students may register starting July 27th. Please note that face-to-face students and online students should register for the appropriate section for hybrid courses:
CRCRTH 601 Critical Thinking (hybrid), 4:00-6:45pm Tuesdays from September 15 - December 15, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6478, online: class #6355).
CRCRTH 630 Criticism and Creativity in Literature & the Arts (hybrid), 4:00-6:45pm Thursdays from September 17 - December 17, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6479, online: class #6357).
CRCRTH 650 Mathematical Thinking (hybrid), 7:00-9:45pm Mondays from September 14 - December 14, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6480, online: class #6358).
CRCRTH 651 Advanced Cognitive Psychology (hybrid), 4:00-6:45pm Mondays from September 14 - December 14, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6481, online: class #6360).
CRCRTH 670 Thinking, Learning, and Computers (hybrid), 7:00-9:45pm Thursdays from September 17 - December 17, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6482, online: class #6363).
CRCRTH 688 Reflective Practice (hybrid), Dates and Times TBA, from September 11 - December 11, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6483, online: class #6365).
CRCRTH 692 Processes of Research and Engagement (hybrid), 7:00-9:45pm Tuesdays, from September 15 - December 15, 2015 (Face-to-face: class #6484, online: class #6366).
CCT Community
CCT program annual report for the College of Advancing and Professional studies: files/AnnualReport15.pdf
CCT Events
Critical and Creative Thinking Program Open House events will resume in the fall. Please see future newsletters for details
Alum and CCT associates Notes
Sara Kaplan ('15) has taken a new position as Assistant Principal, Middlebridge School, Middlebridge, RI. Congratulations to Sara on her new role!
Events
True Story Theater: Stories of Creativity
Friday, July 17th, 2015, 7:30pm, The Arlington Center, 369 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington, MA
Performance of improvisational playback theater exploring expressions of creative flow and blocks and ways that creativity is part of our lives. Cost: general admission $15, students $10.
Opportunities
SITE 27th International Conference: March 21-25, 2016, Savannah, Georgia
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
Call for papers and presentations: Proposals due October 21, 2015.
Join with 1,300+ colleagues from over 60 countries in beautiful & historic Savannah, Georgia. This Society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education & faculty/staff development. For more information about submitting proposals for presentations and for registration details:
site.aace.org/conf
Resources
UMass Boston offers several trainings for faculty, staff, and students. Please see
https://www.umb.edu/training for more information, including upcoming summer boot camps on these topics:
Blackboard -- PowerPoint -- Adobe tools
Food for Thought
(additional web links and posts can also be found on CCT's Diigo pages. General critical and creative thinking focus: https://groups.diigo.com/group/ccreflect; Science in a Changing World focus: https://groups.diigo.com/group/sicwumb)
12 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Airports
Amazon's 'pay-per-page' plan could alter writing as well as royalties
Can the Art of Eating Help Develop Our Taste for Creativity?
The Janusian Process in Creativity
Dads on Dialogue from the Public Conversations Project
Man plays guitar while undergoing brain surgery
What Is Teaching without Learning?
As Demand for Lithium Grows, the Race to Extract It Intensifies
21 Incredible Photos Of The Places Where One Country Ends And Another Begins
21 Actual Analogies Used By High School Students in English Essays
High School Students Create Haunting Artwork About Standardized Tests
Brazil's Science Without Borders Program
Could we do without cause and effect?
Flexible Electronics, Delivered to the Brain via Syringe
How We Showed the Oceans Could Clean Themselves - Boyan Slat on The Ocean Cleanup
Student Achievement and the American Education System
10 Habits of the World’s Greatest Learners
Test and Train Creativity With Just One Word
Why the Scots Gave One of their Roads Wiggly Lines
A teacher shares quotes from her students on Instagram, and it’s hilarious
Appleton to host its first 'Hackathon'
Stop Designing for Millennials
Bucking the trend: why the civil sector has more female engineers
When You Care About Everything, It’s Hard to Think About Nothing
Design and Future-proof Perfection Through Errors
Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
One Reason It's So Hard to Become a 'Creative Superstar City'
Do You Really Use Only 10 Percent Of Your Brain? No, Science Says, So Stop Repeating That Urban Legend
Smelly Maps
How Climate Change Is Destroying Historical Sites Around the World
Grading the Common Core: No Teaching Experience Required
Helping The Introverted And Talented Child
It's not you. Claw machines are rigged
The anti –innovation Patent Act of 2015
The 7 Reasons That Science Says You Should Pay For Experience, Not Things
After the riots, Baltimore’s best shot at redemption may be its arts community
Hyper-Targeted Learning is Letting Busy Adults Pursue Continued Education
16 Weird Forgotten English Words We Should Bring Back
What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About Problem Solving
Why Creativity, Vulnerability and Sensitivity Are Your Superpowers | Esther de Charon de Saint Germain
The Future of Social Movement Research
Tough Afghan Girls Fight Harsh Gender Oppression With Their Bikes
Can Wearable Tech Combat Sexual Assault?
Hands-Off Teaching Cultivates Metacognition
Neuron Probes are Exposing the Brain as Never Before (Kavli Roundtable)
Alan Watts - "Music and Life"
Listening To Heavy Metal May Actually Make You Calmer, Study Finds
Your House is Full of Emotions Says Study on Room-Specific Feelings
Does Science 2.0 foster greater academic freedom?
The Fascinating Science Of Aesthetics
The next design trend is one that eliminates all choices
Artists Reveal the Bacterial Beauty of the Human Microbiome
The Service Innovation Handbook: Action-oriented Creative Thinking Toolkit for Service Organizations
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
Rose-Lynn Fisher /Topography of Tears
How Are The Common Core Standards Affecting Kindergarten Classrooms?
Taking Risks in Your Teaching
Humor
From CCT alum Teryl Cartwright:
My humor today was talking to Siri and asking, "how are you?" Answer: "I'm happy to be alive." which caused me to ask, "how do you know you're alive?" Answer: "I read it on the internet."
The answer is different to "how are you?" when you try to repeat the experiment. By the way, Siri is well because "I enjoy learning new things each day." When I asked what it learned, the answer was "this is about you, not me." :)
On Leadership:
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