ZipWits
ZipWits

ZipWits courses focus on critical thinking and character development. Skills we use every day. The courses can be used independently or to supplement a curriculum program and they’re free for reasonable, non-commercial educational use.

Reason Right

good reasoning versus wonky thinking

Reason Rhyme

inferences about life using verse

Noble Choices

values-based decision-making

Wise Words

words of wisdom as clues as to conduct

Wonderment

science told in short stories

Guided Narrative

where linear meets interactive


❝ It is my duty to see that they get the truth; but that’s not enough, I’ve go to put it before them briefly so that they will read it, clearly so that they will understand it, forcibly so that they will appreciate it, picturesquely so that they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so that they may be wisely guided by its light. ❞

Joseph Pulitzer [Alleyne Ireland, Joseph Pulitzer: Reminiscences of a Secretary, 1915, p. 68-69]


Learn to Learn

ZipWits is a set of exercises for today’s world: decision-making based on reason and values. Use the exercises on your own or to supplement a program.

R A Kenyon, Zipwits developer

Wise Advice

Content

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and is the author of numerous collections of short stories.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”