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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Good one!! And I agree, why would UoC list this obscure technique and not some of the others mentioned on this site?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It’s all a word salad to me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Claire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michelle Dennis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 30 October 2016 8:13 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vet-mm] creative thinking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">My students found this: <a href="http://workingcreativity.com/activities/wordsalad.html" id="LPlnk400252">http://workingcreativity.com/activities/wordsalad.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">... but personally, I think it's not well known enough to have been included on the list in the competency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au">vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> <<a href="mailto:vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au">vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>> on behalf of Bloom, Claire R <<a href="mailto:bloom.claire.r@edumail.vic.gov.au">bloom.claire.r@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 30 October 2016 7:58:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vet-mm@edulists.com.au">vet-mm@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [vet-mm] creative thinking</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
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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.<o:p></o:p></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">http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-the-us-election-turned-into-catch-22-20161027-gscoie.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Not long now…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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