32 Habits That Make Thinkers
These 32 habits that make thinkers can lead to that critical shift that moves students from mere students to learners who think critically.
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A Taxonomy Tree: A Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Graphic
There are dozens of graphics that help frame Bloom’s taxonomy is unique ways. The Taxonomy tree is one of them.
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20 Of The Best Quotes About Knowledge
“Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it.” –Wendell Berry
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25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Learning
Critical thinking is widely misunderstood. Apps that promote it can be hard to find. Here are 25 critical thinking apps to get you started.
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The Difference Between Logical Fallacies And Cognitive Biases
The difference between fallacies and biases is a matter of timing: fallacies are real-time thinking errors while biases are pre-dispositions for future errors.
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Alan Watts: Don’t Think Too Much
From this practice, you learn to experience, to realize, that what happens to you, and what you do are one in the same process.
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Video Game-Based Learning: How To Teach With Portal 2
As they are learning, give students the opportunity to articulate their thought process of how they came up with their solution to a puzzle.
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The Question Formulation Technique
According to the creators, the question formulation technique helps build skills for lifelong learning, self-advocacy & democratic action.
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Active Listening Strategies For Charismatic Student Conversations
As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students.
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20 Critical Thinking Questions About American Pop Culture Holidays
“Explain how ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ both reinforces and challenges prevailing social norms both then (release date) and today.”
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40 Of The Best Quotes About Critical Thinking
These quotes about critical thinking can be used to generate reflection, writing & discussion about critical thinking’s value in a society.
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What Are The Best Graphic Organizers For Promoting Critical Thinking?
Graphic organizers allow students to visualize, order, and categorize concepts using verbal representations & visuals.
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20 Questions To Guide Inquiry-Based Learning
Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.
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A Guide For Teaching With Analogies
From part to whole to synonyms and antonyms, to cause and effect and step and sequences, here are good examples for teaching with analogies.
