The 6 Facets Of Understanding: A Definition For Teachers
The 6 Facets of Understanding is a non-hierarchical framework for understanding. These ‘facets’ are useful as indicators of understanding.
20 Questions To Help Students Think Critically About News
Misleading information is often based on partial truths and then reframed to fit a particular purpose: cause an emotion such as fear or lead to a specific action.
An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News
This (simple) game helps students understand how fake news works, why it becomes popular, and its central mechanics and trends.
The Cognitive Bias Codex: A Visual Of 180+ Cognitive Biases
A cognitive bias is an inherent thinking ‘blind spot’ that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate–and often irrational–conclusions.
How To Build MECE Hypotheses Using A Decision Tree
MECE is a framework that allows you to organize data to ensure that all data is analyzed to ensure all possibilities are exhausted.
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
As a culture, we have a thought crisis–namely, a harmful and enduring refusal and/or inability to think well and think critically.
Want To Make A Difficult Conversation Productive? Use A Protocol
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 pre-conference day, July 16th. Each year, I train scores of educators and professionals to become Critical Friends Group© Coaches, and sometimes I lead shorter workshops…
38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Were the strategies, skills, and procedures I used effective for teaching this lesson or unit? How do I know?
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking
From rubrics and presentations to apps, definitions, and frameworks, here are 25 of the best resources for critical thinking.
What Is Swarm Problem Solving?
Like the rules underlying complexity found in swarm intelligence, Swarm Problem Solving possesses simple rules useful for unpacking problems.
100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking
Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs include Evaluate: Criticize, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize, Revise, Argue, Support, and Re-design.
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