Hello! We hope all of you are excited about the JALT International Conference this weekend in Tsukuba! The Critical Thinking SIG has been hard at work in the last few weeks making sure we make a big splash at JALT2014, and we look forward to having all of you as a part of all the …
JALT OGM – Absentee ballot reminder
Hello Critical Thinkers! This is a reminder to submit your absentee ballot for the JALT Ordinary General Meeting. It is vital that we reach a quorum in order to validate the results of the recent elections. Please go to this web address: http://jalt.org/general/second-ogm-absentee-ballot-2014 and fill out your absentee ballot. This is the easiest way to submit. You …
Critical Thinking and Language Learning (CTLL) is here!
Exciting news from the CT SIG! The CT SIG officers, for the last few months, have been working hard to bring the CT SIG a journal where our members, and others with critical thinking in language learning ideas can be published. We are very happy to announce that our first journal has been delivered and …
Update on JALT National 2014
Hey critical thinkers, a little update to the main conference schedule that should be perfect for challenging us as thinkers and practitioners and people. We have a new plenary speaker – Professor Gerry Yokota of Osaka University. See all the details below. Should be fascinating!! Gerry Yokota: Beyond the Binary: Anime, Gender and the Multicultural …
This Weekend, JALT National, and more!
Hello Critical Thinkers! A reminder to our members about upcoming events. Remember that your own CT SIG’s David Gann will be giving a presentation about Text Reconstruction and Critical Thinking this weekend (Oct. 12th) at the Maebashi Institute of Technology in Gunma. You can check out the Facebook page for more information. If you have ideas …
Updated info. September – 2014
The SIG has many exciting opportunities to dive into Critical Thinking and the pedagogical implications it brings. Today’s post is all about what is coming up in the next few months and into 2015. October: On Oct. 12th, your very own coordinator, David Gann, will be giving a presentation entitled “A Four-Step Process for Critical …
Latest CT SIG Information
This is an e-mail that was just sent out to all members. If you did not get this in your mailbox, please check your spam settings or update your email address with the membership chair: Stephen Jennings. You can reach the membership chair by contacting him directly at: membership@jaltcriticalthinkingsig.org or through the chair at ctscan.editor@gmail.com. We …
Update for the last of August
Greetings Critical Thinkers! Our website has been very quiet as of late, but that is just because we have been working very hard on thing behind the scenes of the SIG. We are trying to give our members as many opportunities to share their ideas as possible. Keep tuned to this site or our Facebook …
The CT SIG forum
Our SIG now has a public forum for us to post in. You can access our site by going to muut.com and signing up for a free user account. It takes about one minute. After that, you can either add our forum to your muut account or access the forum directly from our website: www.jaltcriticalthinking.org …
Discussion Page Removed – Replaced by Q&A
The discussions page has been removed and replaced by a Q&A app that will allow members to post questions and answers on the site for all members to help answer. This format is much more useful than the old discussion page format which was…. unwieldy to say the least. Please head over there and you …