A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

When digital tools are integrated in a pedagogically sound fashion they also promote and enhance other essential skills sets such as communication, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, entrepreneurship, global awareness, and digital responsibility/citizenship.

Teaching 419

Teaching Artifacts Critical Thinking Educational Technology 419

TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

Asking a question that pierces the veil in any given situation is itself an artifact of the critical thinking teachers so desperately seek in students, if for no other reason than it shows what the student knows, and then implies the desire to know more. A bad question stops thinking. It confuses and obscures.

Critical Thinking 328

Critical Thinking Tradition Artifacts Cultures 328

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2012

A focus on standardization narrows the curriculum and creates a teaching culture where creativity, exploration, critical thinking are scarce or non-existent. Students don''t need resumes, they need to create artifacts of learning that provides detail as to what they can really do or know.

Education 304

Education Artifacts Cultures Leadership 304

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What aspects of a teacher’s work lead them to engage in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection? However, a lesson that challenges the learner to wrestle with ideas, explore and discover, and create artifacts of their choice to demonstrate their learning, takes time, creativity, and mental energy to construct.

Artifacts 214

Artifacts Critical Thinking Tradition High School 214

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

This micro-credential focuses on how Future Ready Librarians “encourage and facilitate students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic real-world problem solving.” With teacher librarians across the U.S. Create More!

Library 113

Library Artifacts Advocacy Professional Development 113

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. Researchers have found that culturally relevant education can increase grades, participation and critical thinking skills and can lead to higher graduation rates.

Heritage 129

Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 129