A website has been designed to foster creative and critical thinking in kids of all ages. We believe that when critical thinking is consistently and carefully applied to our understanding of life, it often results in the secular worldview.
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Be prepared to meet Darth Harley, Bark Lord of the Sith
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Reading is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without seeing the picture on the front of the puzzle box. Understanding what you’ve read is like looking at and studying a hidden gestalt image over and over until you finally see the hidden picture, and then can’t unsee the hidden picture. Our analogies capture the cognitive ... (2/2) What is Reading? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids
For the Greeks Philosophy was interested in Being, which was the iceberg beneath the surface of the water when all you can see is the tip, or what is going on behind the scenes that makes the theater play on the stage possible and run smoothly. For example, we have grapeness before our mind’s eye ... What is Philosophy? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids
Once upon a time, on the edge of a deep, ancient forest, there ran a roaring, modern highway. Cars and trucks barreled down it day and night, moving fast like lines of data inside a supercomputer. Right next to this busy road lived two very different creatures: Horace the Hedgehog and Master Jada the Jedi. ... A DOET Short Story!
Kids are naturally like little philosophers because the pursue the “why questions” more than regular adults. Children are not pre-rational beings waiting to become smart; they are the truest practitioners of phusis because they live naturally within the open horizon of the question. When a four-year-old enters a relentless loop of asking “Why?”, “But why?”, ... Why use DOET Thinking in your Classroom?
DOET thinking is just as much a search for questions as it is a search for answers. Inquiry questions open up a path for exploration where you can record all the interesting things you find, but the circular path ultimately leads back where it started so you can re-ask the question in a more basic ... Exploring DOET Thinking for Kids!
I did a character reveal for Darth Harley yesterday on Secular Web Kids blog HERE as part of my end of summer posting that I also did on my Secular Frontier blog. It turns out that while Harley is a bright kid, he also has significant mental challenges he is managing. I wanted to create ... Darth Harley Character Reveal
Darth Harley was a Bark Lord of the Sith. Of course, Harley knew he wasn’t actually a Sith. The Jedi and the Sith were from long ago in a galaxy far, far away. But, he liked to think of himself that way. Interestingly, Harley’s favorite movie series wasn’t Star Wars, but the Rocky movies. He ... Darth Harley, The Sickest Boy in the World
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