News2017December
News from the Graduate Program in Critical & Creative Thinking
University of Massachusetts Boston6 December 2017
Student Matters
Registration for spring 2018 continues, and students must register by January 9, 2018 to avoid paying the late registration fee. See full descriptions. Course offerings (all times Eastern):
CRCRTH 602 Creative Thinking (online). Synchronous online meeting times TBD. (online section: register for class #10980; face-to-face [permission required]: register for class #16793)
CRCRTH 649 Scientific and Political Change (hybrid). Tuesdays, 4:00-6:45pm (online: class #10981; face-to-face: class #10325)
CRCRTH 670 Thinking, Learning, and Computers (hybrid). Mondays, 4:00-6:45pm (online: class #10983; face-to-face: class #10326)
CRCRTH 688 Reflective Practice (hybrid). Mondays, 7:00-9:45pm (online: class #10984; face-to-face: class #10327)
CRCRTH 693 Action Research for Professional, Educational, and Personal Change (synchronous online). Thursdays, 7:00-9:45pm (online: class #10987)
CRCRTH 694 Synthesis of Theory and Practice (hybrid): 2 options:
- Tuesdays, 7:00-9:45pm (online: class #10985; face-to-face: class #10328)
- Thursdays, 4:00-6:45pm (online: class #10986; face-to-face: class #10329)
CCT Community
Laura White (current CCT student) has been accepted to the Dance Exchange Winter Institute. Description: As we continue to celebrate a legacy that has pioneered a path for artists working towards change in and with their communities, and build on creative practices that connect people across age and difference, we invite you to join us in our studios and out in our community in growing our capacities as facilitators, dancemakers, and leaders in intergenerational collaboration. Together, led by Dance Exchange artists and local partners, we will participate in a daily movement practice, share collaborative practices and tools for dancemaking, intersect with Dance Exchange projects and repertory, and cultivate a deeper understanding of our role as artist-citizens.
http://danceexchange.org/institutes/
CCT Events
The CCT program will hold a series of community open house events/dialogues in the spring in March, April, and May. Please see upcoming newsletters for confirmation of dates and topics.
Alum and CCT associates Notes
CCT alums and associates are encouraged to send items of interest to the Critical and Creative Thinking community to be included in future newsletters. Please submit events, announcements, and opportunities through this form: http://bit.ly/CCTSICWi
Events
Boston Coastline: Future Past A project of Catherine D'Ignazio and Andi Sutton
at Big Bang Data, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition on view from October 19, 2017 - March 30, 2018
See location and hours
Boston Coastline: Future Past, a "walking data visualization" produced by Catherine D'Ignazio and Andi Sutton, is currently on view at the MIT Museum as part of the exhibition Big Bang Data. This is a collaborative project that captures the future and past of the city of Boston through embodied experience. Performed in Boston in 2015, 40 participants walked parts of a virtual coastline that traced both the city's border in 1788 as well as one that is predicted for 2100 based on climate change and rising seas. For more information, see the web site.
Opportunities
2018 Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL) is now accpeting applications, due by March 30, 2018. This program is designed for those positioned-for-leadership roles within an individual’s institution, with occupational titles such as manager, associate director, assistant director, vice provost, etc., and leadership responsibilities related to online learning initiatives. For more information, see the web site.
Call for Proposals: Performing the World 2018
Conference held from September 21-23, 2018, New York City
Proposals due by February 15, 2018 using this form: Conference registration details and application here.
Proposals sought from all kinds of players-performance activists and performance scholars; psychologists, counselors and social workers; physicians and nurses; educators and youth workers; theatre and other creative artists; community organizers, policy makers and humanitarian aid workers, including those active in prisons and refugee camps.
Resources
The Foundation for Critical Thinking's YouTube channel offers recordings of many full lectures and discussions by Richard Paul and others on topics related to critical thinking given over several years. See the channel for full listings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpyvWfo9diMIMi_wX5LUbSQ
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)
Articles:
The Philosophy Foundation Social Impact Report, 2016-17 (Philosophy Foundation)
Arts Careers series (Createquity)
Success Academy’s Radical Educational Experiment (New Yorker)
Care Counts Program in Schools (CareCounts)
Teaching Adult Students with Considerable Professional Expertise (Faculty Focus)
The Critical Thinking Child: Program teaches children how to protect themselves against online predators (ABC 7 Chicago)
What is an Innovation Class…and Why Do You Need One? (Cult of Pedagogy)
Endorsements for Bioscience journal article, “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: a second notice” (Alliance of World Scientists)
Seimens eHighway: Never Mind Electric Cars: Why Electric Roads are the Real Key to the Future (Inverse)
Developing Students’ Ability to Give and Take Effective Feedback (KQED)
Music is not for ears (Aeon)
How Canada became an education superpower (BBC)
The T in STEM: Creating Play-Based Experiences That Support Children’s Learning of Coding and Higher Order Thinking (NAEYC)
How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women (New York Times)
Americans for the Arts - reports and findings (Americans for the Arts)
Mindfulness Training for Teens Fails Important Test (Scientific American)
Why trees don’t ungrow (Aeon)
An Invitation to Explore Indigenous Innovation (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Video:
What is Intellectual Humility? (YouTube)
Humor
The Webby Awards: The Internet's best humor, 2017