Thinkabout ★ "Lost" Skills Essential to Learning Series

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Thinkabout ★ "Lost" Skills Essential to Learning Series

Created by the Agency for Instructional Technology in 1979. One web site referred to Thinkabout as "The Agency for Instructional Technology's Finest Hour." ... implying that it WAS the Best Series they ever created.

It was only 44 Years old when I posted it ... you decide if it's a "Golden Oldie" or a "Moldy Oldie" - after all of these years.

Thinkabout is a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills.

The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternatives, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively, and Solving Problems.

"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkabout_(American_TV_series)

Thinkabout, "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", is an instructional program for children, produced in 1979 by the Agency for Instructional Television, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.

The 60 programs produced were aimed for fifth and sixth grade students to understand their learning process in topics as varied as language arts, mathematics, study skills, as well as thinking skills.

Thinkabout was funded by various state and local agencies, including the Exxon Corporation, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.

Trivia: • During the 1979-1980 school year, AIT partnered with Weekly Reader magazine, in which Weekly Reader included a special Thinkabout feature in their 4th and 5th grade editions.

• This series is unrelated to the 1980s BBC Two program of the same name, which was seen in the 1980s and 1990s; unlike the US series, the British series' focus was on science."

As seen on PBS!!!!

Archive

Internet Archive, in Lost telecourses

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Rights statement

Fair Use Notice

Credit

Agency for Instructional Technology

Language

English

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed