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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear Clare and Michelle,
<div>Are EAL students allowed to bring in a dictionary to the Exam.</div>
<div>kind regards</div>
<div>Phil<br>
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<div><font color="#000080" size="2" face="Arial"><strong>Phil McErvale</strong></font></div>
<div><strong><font size="2" face="arial"><font color="#000080">Email: </font><a href="mailto:pmcervale@pcw.vic.edu.au"><font color="#000080">pmcervale@pcw.vic.edu.au</font></a></font></strong></div>
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<div id="divRpF394807" style="direction:ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au [vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au] on behalf of Bloom, Claire R [bloom.claire.r@edumail.vic.gov.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 30 October 2016 7:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vet-mm@edulists.com.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [vet-mm] creative thinking<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll be honest, I’ve never found an explanation of “word salad” as a creative thinking technique, it seems to refer to an incomprehensible form speech used by those with certain mental disabilities. This article in yesterday’s Age confirms
what I have found.</p>
<p style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:Merriweather; color:#1D1D1D">Fairfax football writer Rohan Connolly is a considerable character and not one to suffer fools gladly. Recently, he tweeted: "I'll say it again! The real cultural war looming
in this country isn't so much about left v right as intelligence v rank f---ing stupidity." A few days earlier, he tweeted after reading the transcript of a Trump speech, describing it as a "<b>word salad</b>…Not only is there no coherent policy, it's barely
even coherent English". <br>
<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-the-us-election-turned-into-catch-22-20161027-gscoie.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-the-us-election-turned-into-catch-22-20161027-gscoie.html</a></span></i></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Google “Trump word salad”, and lots of commentators are describing his incoherence as a word salad. Most definitely not a technique likely to yield a creative solution.<br>
Has anyone used this technique in a critical and creative thinking exercise? Or how did teachers define this “creative thinking technique”?</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Not long now…</span></p>
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