What Is Necessary For Learning?
Sugata Mitra showed that children could learn complex tasks in the absence of formal training, spurred on by curiosity and peer interest.
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Why Worrying About Screen Time Might Be The Wrong Approach
While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on ‘minutes read.’
60 Critical Thinking Strategies For Learning
Critical thinking strategies often employ multiple data sources and perspectives in pursuit of understanding.
How To Teach For Knowledge Through Humility
How would it change the learning process to start with a tone of humility? To clarify what can be known, and what cannot?
18 Questions To Ask Students About Their Day Remote Learning
What kinds of questions to ask students support what they’ve learned remotely and enhance their ability to apply it?
What Is Genius Hour? An Overview For The Classroom
Genius hour is an approach to learning where students are guided by their own interests, background knowledge, and curiosity to learn.
50 Examples Of Analogies For Critical Thinking
By forcing students to distill one relationship in order to understand another, it’s almost impossible to solve analogies without understanding.
The Benefits Of Competency-Based Assessment
Competency-based learning provides students clear feedback about specific competencies and skills gained over time.
20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking
What are some of the most common types of questions for teaching critical thinking? This led to many dozens of answers.
5 Simple Ideas That Can Transform Your Teaching
The school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn by transforming your teaching.
Me Learning: A Student-Centered Learning Model
Key questions of Me learning include, “What’s worth understanding?” and, “What’s worth doing with what I come to understand?”
What Is Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy?
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy is an update that, among other changes, revised the language and hierarchy of the Cognitive Process Dimension.