Critical Thinking Is A Mindset
Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.
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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?
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The Art & Science Of Reading In The 21st Century
Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.
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Some Thoughts On Knowledge And Knowledge Limits
Learning leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to theories just like theories lead to knowledge. It’s all circular in such an obvious way.
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Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For ‘Good Work’
What is the effect of your work? Did you choose your work, or are you doing it under compulsion as the way to earn money?
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50 Critical Thinking Strategies For Learning
Critical thinking strategies often employ multiple data sources and perspectives in pursuit of understanding.
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Teaching Disruptively
Teaching disruptively helps create learners who ask the right question at the right time for reasons that matter to them.
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30 Examples Of Technology In Education
Examples of education tech include mobile devices, adaptive learning algorithms, the cloud, podcasting, and virtual reality.
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Teaching Is Human Work. Systems Aren’t Built for That.
Teachers are the great translators of learning–mediators that speak in binary code for the system and in human tongue for the children.
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Developing Confident Students Using Gradual Release Of Responsibility
To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?
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The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom
Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom.
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Rethinking Learning Loss: When Students Don’t Use What They Learn
When rethinking learning loss, we should consider ‘transferability’ of knowledge to student life.
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5 Learning Strategies That Make Students Curious
Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to change or grow, curiosity is simply a momentary neurological reaction to stimuli.
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How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process
Gamification can clarify not just success and failure but the nuance of student performance in every step of the learning process.
