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Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 22, 2023
Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Reading logs are a controversial topic. One of the biggest complaints I hear about traditional reading logs is that it takes the joy out of reading when you are forced to keep track of what you are reading. I find that this is an added incentive to get those reluctant readers to buy in. I occupy the middle ground on this one.
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Psych Learning Curve
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? ” I thought some background for people like my friend might be useful.
Geogramblings
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Increasing the self-knowledge, esteem and confidence of our young people builds resilience and skill in tackling controversial topics and issues, as detailed earlier by Chowdhury.* The word ‘respect’ appears many times throughout this chapter and used extensively by Chowdury when talking about tackling controversial issues.*
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
As I noted in a previous blog post , our information landscape is changing both rapidly and drastically. School leaders also must create safe spaces for teaching and learning about controversial topics. And that means rethinking some organizational and technological practices.
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