Re: [tips] Can Thinking Be Learned?

2011-02-15 Thread michael sylvester
Can Thinking Be Learned?Is there some kind of controversy here since Piaget postulated that the nature of thinkin was age dependent? And re cognitive acceleration will the "only use 5% of our brain" folks have reason to stand their ground? Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Flori

[tips] Can Thinking Be Learned?

2011-02-15 Thread Richard Hake
Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsych might be interested in two recent posts that answer "YES" to the question "CAN THINKING BE LEARNED?: "Re: Cognitive Acceleration" [Hake (2011a)] and "Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment" [Hake (2011b)]. A combined abstract is: *

Re:[tips] tips digest: February 14, 2011

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Okami
She's 12. : -) - Original Message - From: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest To: tips digest recipients Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 11:00 PM Subject: tips digest: February 14, 2011 TIPS Digest for Monday, February 14, 2011. 1. Re: Tipster's 10 year