I had the pleasure of attending a CPD course today at the Campaign for Learning headquarters with reknown ex-head, SIP and innovative Learning to Learn leader Jackie Beere OBE. During her presentation she spoke about THUNKS. I hadn't heard of them before, so did some research when I got home and found some to share with you. Some teachers describe them as 'Thought hand-grenades'. I like this idea of an explosion of thought - surely that's what learning is all about.
"Thunks are drawn from Independent Thinking’s work in Philosophy for Children and have been used with thousands of young people to get them thinking deeply and critically. Questions where there are no rights or wrongs are hugely liberating for young people and generate levels of thinking that you often don’t achieve with traditional ’guess what’s in the teacher’s head’ type question and answering where there are right or wrong answers." Learning Bug
Here's a few to get you started and some links to THUNK sites. These are super for starter activities; tutor time and the students could even make their own THUNKS. Please share any with colleagues here. Your conmtributions are always valued and appreciated.
Is black a colour?
Can you touch the wind?
If I swapped brains with you would you still be you and me still me?
Is a millionaire who is marooned on a desert island still a millionaire?
Is plastic (which comes from oil, which comes from trees) man-made or natural?
Some more Thunks:
http://www.independentthinking.co.uk/Cool+Stuff/Thunks/default.aspx
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