ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills. One day, at the harvest festival, an eighth-grade history teacher questioned the student about some historical facts, and he answered them correctly. After, we had critical conversations together about what he had learned.

Humanities 127

Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 127

ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

Primary Sources 125

Primary Sources History World History Digital Resources 125

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity.

EdTech 130

EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. And that's how people learn math. Deforestation in Borneo presents fractions in the context of an environmental problem.

Education 125

Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 125

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

But a flurry of other bills and laws restricting what educators can teach—or even say—about history, literature, race, sexuality and other topics are alive and well. My job is to prepare them to change the world, to navigate the unpredictable with critical thinking and resilience. The lesson plan would still be there.

Lesson Plan 120

Lesson Plan K-12 History Professional Development 120

ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. Critical thinking comes into play as students must locate, read and determine the legitimacy of each original source. era: hand-written scrolls.

Education 140

Education Critical Thinking Teaching History 140

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. The third most important skill is technological literacy, which includes AI and other technologies. . — Brian Johnsrud The latest World Economic Forum Jobs Report highlights the top skills that will rise in importance by 2027.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 126

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators.

Pedagogy 134

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Economics 134

ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Furthermore, within the vast scope of science history, men have continuously taken credit for women's intellectual work in science, a pervasive phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect. Numerous medical cures and breakthroughs, including the polio vaccine and recent developments towards an HIV vaccine, required HeLa cells.

K-12 101

K-12 Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching 101

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. Todd has focused his own research on art history.

Library 113

Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2023

I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. We can provide our students with what Duncan-Andrade refers to as material hope, providing what has always been our best resource: grounding our content in the real world and connecting with our students’ concerns as we grow their critical thinking skills.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School History Critical Thinking Public School 98

ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2023

And I'm happy doing what I'm doing, teaching students, helping them develop their critical thinking skills. So we go over those lessons, and my goal for this class is to try to develop their critical thinking skills. In science class, how the technology measures tornadoes for the weather segment.

Critical Thinking 139

Critical Thinking Human Rights History High School 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

This school year, teachers are using Legos to help kids learn concepts from all subject areas, including literacy, history and science. Just to talk about [STEM concepts] abstractly is difficult at that level,” said Susan Uram, educational technology coordinator for Rockford Public Schools.

Private School 136

Private School Educational Technology Public School Critical Thinking 136

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What we think the purpose of a university is, and this will get to why I'm doing this project now, is to give human beings the ability to better understand themselves and the world. So to develop what we commonly think of as critical thinking or critical capacities.

Humanities 107

Humanities Cultures Tradition Psychology 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2025

The education technology industry has already witnessed firsthand how AI helps teachers and engages students in ways that make learning more personalized. competitive globally, investing in AI literacy across K-12 education is essential especially for workforce preparation. Thats why, to keep the U.S.

K-12 104

K-12 Education Economics Tutoring 104

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It was the case that, for example, the students kept learning about racist histories, but there was not really any teaching about race itself as a construct. I think that one of the reasons that that was done is just because of the lack of materials in Spanish of the Latinx community here in the U.S. In terms of its history.

Education 120

Education Tradition Cultures History 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

I’ve been able to teach history, but I don’t know if that’s necessarily a sign of success in these times,” she said. In the spring, when she’d learned a student’s brother and father were ill with Covid-19, she’d baked trays of brownies and taken them to the student’s home because it was the most direct action she could think to take.

High School 145

High School Social Studies K-12 Middle School 145