ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

Humanities 128

Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 128

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. I am proud to say that this unparalleled learning experience, under the direction of Colleen Tambuscio, has taken place for the last twelve years at NMHS.

Heritage 325

Heritage Artifacts High School History 325

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.

Critical Thinking 328

Critical Thinking Tradition Artifacts Cultures 328

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. The post The future includes good (human) teachers appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom.

Project-Based Learning 132

Project-Based Learning Middle School High School Critical Thinking 132

ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

Affinity groups have the power to strengthen the voices of our students and help them think critically about the world, their experiences and their education. By practicing their critical thinking skills and learning to trust themselves, they can develop tools that help them combat the effects of internalized racial stress or bias.

Heritage 117

Heritage Critical Thinking High School Humanities 117

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first.

Teaching 138

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 138

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Pedagogy 271

Pedagogy Humanities Social Justice Cultures 271

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Digital credentials, which adhere to open interoperability standards, provide a machine and human-readable way to showcase those skills and make it easier for potential employers to verify those claims. Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence.

Civic Engagement 116

Civic Engagement EdTech Civics Leadership 116

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Teaching is more than delivering contentits about modeling humanity, and my apology that day reshaped my understanding of educations deeper purpose. Education as a Humanizing Practice In Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire argues that education should make students more human.

Pedagogy 59

Pedagogy Humanities Classroom Management Critical Thinking 59

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

Humanities 89

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 89

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The graduate-level econometrics course I teach is required and it’s designed to foster analytical and critical thinking skills in causal research methods. Without any human touch, the memo would not have received a passing grade because it was too high-level and didn’t provide a literature review with proper citations.

Critical Thinking 138

Critical Thinking Social Justice Humanities Teaching 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

José Antonio Bowen is a former president of Goucher College and co-author with Watson of “Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning.” In our new book , we make it clear that the specifics of AI literacy will vary somewhat from one subject to the next, but there are some AI capacities that everyone will now need.

Critical Thinking 138

Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching Education 138

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

Civics 134

Civics Controversial Topics Education Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

PS2 Pal was also instructed to encourage students to think and give it a try themselves before revealing the answer. Unguided use of ChatGPT, the Harvard scientists argue, lets students complete assignments without engaging in critical thinking. This allows for the human interaction to be much richer.”

Tutoring 136

Tutoring Humanities Tradition Critical Thinking 136

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. And I think it really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. Connectivity is probably how Qualcomm offers the greatest impact in education.

K-12 141

K-12 Education Human Rights EdTech 141

Psychology Sorted

JUNE 25, 2024

Question (modelled on typical question from Paper 1, Section C): Psychologists studying human development face difficulties in measuring childhood development. Points to note: Focus on critical thinking and conceptual understanding right from the beginning, not study details.

Psychology 98

Psychology Humanities Critical Thinking Research 98

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Deploying these tools in that way assumes that quick, iterative feedback drives critical thinking — when what students really need are deep conversations that will pull them in unexpected directions, Aguilar says. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

K-12 137

K-12 EdTech Tutoring Humanities 137

Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Sociology Cultures Psychology 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field.

High School 143

High School K-12 Social Science Humanities 143

ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Defining the Integration of Artificial Intelligence Integrating AI refers to the incorporation of machine-driven intelligence into various applications and processes, enabling tasks that mimic human cognitive functions like learning from data, problem-solving and recognizing patterns. But are teachers provided the support to do so?

Education 143

Education EdTech K-12 Humanities 143

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 9, 2015

Games can help students improve their critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities while offering clear assessment data that could eliminate our dependency on regurgitation and memorization-based evaluations. Mathematical thinking has to do with conceptual understanding. via [link].

Teaching 109

Teaching Education Critical Thinking Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Teaching kids abstract critical thinking skills is unlikely to help them think critically. Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.”

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Critical Thinking Research Teaching 145

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data.

Critical Thinking 165

Critical Thinking Research Skills Humanities Cultures 165

Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Sociology Archaeology Museum 130

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity. The science activity Human Eye in McGraw Hill AR My job is to facilitate and learn beside them.

EdTech 131

EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

Automation will boost demand for science-and-tech skills as well as soft skills such as critical thinking, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development. Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report.

Education Policy 111

Education Policy Government Critical Thinking Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The end goal is not to just provide access to digital devices — it’s to develop the skills to use these tools for heightened learning, critical thinking and self-expression. There is a growing need to reframe computing in classrooms as an inherently social and learned set of skills.

K-12 141

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Social Studies 141

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Instead of resisting, we need to rethink lesson design, focus on critical thinking, and embrace strategies that make learning more interactive, meaningful, and student-driven. These strategies go beyond recall and require students to think, create, and engage , ensuring that AI remains a toolnot a replacementfor deep learning.

Teaching 40

Teaching Critical Thinking Humanities Research 40

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI Literacy applies 21st-century skills , including communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Education 140

Education K-12 Educational Technology Critical Thinking 140

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If AI-generated content can easily evade detection while human text is frequently misclassified, how effective are these detectors truly?” In ChatGPT’s first version, it wrote: “Plagiarism presents a grave threat not only to academic integrity but also to the development of critical thinking and originality among students.”

History 118

History Humanities Critical Thinking Research 118

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. . ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home.

Research 112

Research Critical Thinking Educational Technology Economics 112

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 Professional Development 134

ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. There wasn't suddenly a massive decline in critical thinking,” Caulfield says. It's not able to evaluate things in the way a human is.

Critical Thinking 143

Critical Thinking Tradition Teaching Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2024

At the high school level, we should challenge younger generations to understand the core facets of the humanistic tradition by presenting them with an accurate picture of what the field of literary study has always been: a profound exploration of the human condition through words and stories.

High School 127

High School Tradition Critical Thinking History 127