Monday+10+September+2007

In today's class we finished Thinking about Learning. We spent some time exploring the importance of the emotions in learning, and how the emotional part of our brains controls our learning.

The strategy we learnt today was one of Edward de Bono's CoRT thinking skills. It is called a PMI - PLUS, MINUS, INTERESTING. We constructed a PMI on the topic of The Productive Learning Environment. I hope you wrote down all our points because they made a good summary.

One of the creative suggestions for ways to use a PMI is as an assessment tool, either for teacher assessment or peer assessment. The PMI is useful because it provides a structure (a scaffold).

Jan will take the class on Wednesday. I gave her some information about ordering the Frangenheim book which some of you want to buy. Next week I will look at Multiple Intelligences, and perhaps another one of de Bono's strategies.

You have your handout of the main points I discussed. Please let me know if you need me to clarify anything further.

Linley