REQUIRED
Two Documents:
1. Attached Document: Introduction to Intelligence
2. Link to 2003 "Intelligence across cultures:" http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/intelligence.html.
Two Videos:
1. Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7039343460137069050
2. Howard Gardner on his Multiple Intelligences theory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEFpaY3GI-I
OPTIONAL
Intelligence
1. This links to a document from TeacherVision on teaching for Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. http://www.teachervision.fen.com/intelligence/teaching-methods/2204.html
2. Questionnaire for Triarchic Intelligence Theory self-assessment http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2215602/Triarchic-Theory-of-Intelligences---Robert-Sternberg
3. A YouTube clip on Using the Triarchic Theory to Enhance Learning. The presentation has some flaws in it, but still gives some good ideas about how to teach in ways that enhance students' intelligences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPbBHrLIehM
4. Here is a questionnaire for assessing Multiple Intelligences based on Gardner's theory.
5 A longer (and older) YouTube clip with Gardner on his theory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2QtSbP4FRg&feature=related
6. .More information on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory and other resources for teachers from the UK: http://www.highland.gov.uk/learninghere/supportforschoolstaff/ltt/issuepapers/multi-intelligences.htm
7. Attached below are two articles addressing Sternberg's work.
8. Brief biography of Sternberg, and some video clips. The references note that the Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test was never published. http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/sternberg.shtml. However, here's a link to information on the Rainbow Assessment that replaced it!
9. Perry's theory of Intellectual and Ethical Development, often called the Perry Scheme, is summarized by the Perry Network http://www.perrynetwork.org/schemeoverview.html
Cognitive Processes/Abilities/Skills
Problem Solving and Decision Making http://managementhelp.org/personalproductivity/problem-solving.htm
PBS Frontline Video "Digital Nation" which addresses many important aspects of technology in classes, homes and the culture, including the complex issue of Multitasking. About 90 minutes, divided into 9 chapters. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Some of the basic cognitive processes are described in this link on Information Processing Approaches to Cognitionhttp://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cogsys/infoproc.html
Science Curiosity Scale is attached below.
Here's a link to an example of the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test http://www.talentlens.com/en/downloads/supportmaterials/Pearson_TalentLens_Ravens.pdf
The classic book on openmindedness is Rokeach's (1960) The Open and Closed Mind. This link is his statement about his book:
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1979/A1979HJ26700001.pdf
In December, 2005 NPR did a show on Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities. This is a link to an audio broadcast and transcript of that show http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5036084.
Here's a link to an article highly critical of focusing teaching strategies on students' Learning Styles, which are not the same as their intelligences. I totally agree with the conclusions from this article http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/08/study-stop-funding-learning-styles/ However, Felder's approach to learning styles that I find acceptable. Here's a link to a survey and information based on this approach. http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is defined as deciding or selecting what to believe or do. Many people confuse metacognition and critical thinking, which have some overlapping components but are not the same. Metacognition may be thought of as critical thinking applied to one's own thinking and learning processes and products. When critical thinking is applied to something external to the thinker/learner, such as evaluating another person's ideas or argument, it is not metacognition. In our text, see p. 121-123 for Facione & Facione's holistic rubric for assessing critical thinking.
Brain Development
First is a link to a PBS show on early brain development http://vodpod.com/watch/1407788-charlie-rose-early-brain-developmentkasdan
Second is a link to a PBS show on adolescent brain development. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
Early Learning Matters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8U96Q_x3qE&feature=player_embedded