On Thinking

Fantastic Contraption. Challenging, fun, and FREE! In this free to play online physics puzzler, players must solve the levels by moving a block from A to B, using a few simple tools. Whilst it hardly sounds riveting, it is in fact a great problem solving strategy tool, which really makes player think. Levels can usually [...]

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For those of you who don’t know what BEESTAR is, it’s a free online resource:Beestar is run by voluntary community teachers and parents. Most Beestar developers are also its users. It’s fantastic for homeschoolers, AND for school teachers!http://www.beestar.org

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Do check out TED: IDEAS WORTH SPREADING; Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.
The talks (video) last anywhere from 5-18 minutes. ENORMOUS variety and range of topics, often including fascinating photos, models etc.
• Fantastic as a brain-revver for yourself
• Make wonderful ‘hooks” to encourage children to discuss ideas
• Learn and think about brilliant [...]

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If you love finding out all about the workings of the human brain, here’s a wonderful site for you. It’s a BBC site showing the series of Reith lectures on the brain . Sample lectures/topics:

synapses and the self
The Artful Brain
Synaesthaesia (when some people literally ’see’ red when they see the number 5, or green when [...]

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I’m reading a brilliant book called “Understanding Thinking” by John Evans, and although only a third of the way through it, I have to tell you that this is an amazing book! Evans makes fascinating connections and parallels between thinkers in history, thinking models, and societal belief structures… this is so good I just have [...]

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