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An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News by Terry Heick Want to help students learn to think critically about 'fake news'? A simple, browser-based game...
The Cognitive Bias Codex: A Visual Of 180+ Cognitive Biases by Terry Heick A cognitive bias is an inherent thinking 'blind spot' that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate--and often...
How To Build MECE Hypotheses Using A Decision Tree contributed by Ethan Andrews What is a MECE Hypothesis? This is quite the mouthful and unless you are a consultant, it...
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick Imagine the dogged pursuit of a proper clock-maker, day after day bound up in design and measurement and function and...
Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking by Terry Heick As a culture, we have a thought crisis--namely, a harmful and enduring refusal and/or inability to think well and think critically....
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different by Terry Heick This post was one of our earliest posts from Terry Heick in very early 2012. It has now been updated...
Want To Make A Difficult Conversation Productive? Use A Protocol contributed by Michele Mattoon, NSRF Director *Join Michele and Director of TeachThought PD, Drew Perkins, for this summer's Grow 19...
38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom's Taxonomy contributed by Peter Pappas My interest in reflective thinking is rooted in a simple but powerful statement by Donald Finkel who wrote...
"Curriculum that questions the purpose of knowledge." by Terry Heick In our recent post, Education’s Curious Fascination With Uniformity, reader James Foss left a useful comment that had within it...
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff See also 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking Critical Thinking As an organization, critical thinking is at the core of what...
What Is Swarm Problem Solving? contributed by Dr. Jamie Schwandt, (Ed.D.) “It would be unlikely that it would be a fish that discovered water, or a bird air.” – Chinese Proverb A...
100+ Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff Ed note: This post was first published in 2013 and updated in December of 2018 Bloom's Taxonomy's verbs--also know as...
60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves by Terry Heick Motivating and engaging students is the goal of most teachers--priming them to receive instruction, or otherwise align themselves to...
What Is Four-Dimensional Questioning? contributed by Dr. Jamie Schwandt, (Ed.D.) Questioning is like a missile guidance system designed to attack a specific target; whereas, a question guidance system is designed to...
20 Critical Thinking Questions About Christmas Pop Culture In The United States by Terry Heick Simple premise: Allow your students to think critically about the American pop culture holidays. I...
3 Modes Of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent & Convergent Thought by TeachThought Staff TeachThought is about, more than anything else, human improvement. A core tenet of humanity is our ability to think...
12 General Critical Thinking Questions About Voting & Government by Terry Heick Just a quick post that's self-explanatory enough: It's almost #ElectionDay! Some questions for student critical thinking: What is...
25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Learning by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking apps aren't the sweet spot of mobile app design. Most of the more popular apps are focused...
