Exploratree - tools for thinking! ... FREE!
One of the highlights of a recent visit to Cramlington Community High School (In Northumberland, ... not Newcastle. Thanks Ray for the correction to my previous post) was the early preview of Learning 2 Learn software. One of the most impressive features was their toolset for thinking.
I was amazed to see a whole set of great tools for thinking now being offered by Futurelab, the Bristol based education 'Think Tank'. Branded Exploratree, they offer a most impressive range of interactive and ready made 'Thinking Guides'. Check them out, they are excellent!
Exploratree is one of the outcomes from Enquiring Minds, a three year research partnership run by Futurelab and funded by Microsoft. Seriously great stuff that all children, young people and teachers should be using!
Links Below in case you didn't see them in the text!!
Enquiring Minds
Enquiring Minds is a £1 million research and development programme to
investigate how children can be effective in shaping their own
learning. The programme, which is funded by Microsoft, aims to enable
young people to take personal responsibility for their own learning by
changing the emphasis from what they learn to how they learn
Exploratree
Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make
your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support
independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking,
planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which
you can print out or use online. All of the guides are completely
customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can
share them and work on them in groups too.