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admin on March 20th, 2010
This is an open ‘letter’ by a young man called Dan Brown who seems to have struck a cord with some people and touched a nerve in others. The bottom line; debate is healthy, and yes, it leads to people getting educated.
I took this clip into my classroom and my students engaged in some healthy [...]
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Edward de Bono’s “Six Thinking hats” is a guide to better thinking. Essentially the need is based on an understanding of how the brain chemicals change with the mode of thinking. The parallel thinking of the Six hats method replaces argument. Argument was never designed to be constructive. From senior corporate executives to four-year-olds in [...]