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 87

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 87

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 136

Critical Thinking Social Justice Humanities Teaching 136

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

Now all of a sudden, without asking teachers to give up their weekends to grade,” he says, “we can give all that information to the student and teacher within seconds.” It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. “But Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.

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Civics Controversial Topics Education Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

That information will be essential as you think about AI literacy within your subjects and courses. 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.” Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Critical Thinking 137

Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching Education 137

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. The result is the book “ Verified: How to think straight, get duped less and make better decisions about what to believe online.”

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Critical Thinking Tradition Teaching Humanities 143

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. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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Critical Thinking Research Skills Humanities Cultures 165

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

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

Civic Engagement 136

Civic Engagement Civics Library Social Science 136

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

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. Sketch & Tell Forces students to translate complex information into visuals , proving they truly understand a concept rather than just regurgitating words.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Humanities Research 40

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.

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Anthropology Sociology Psychology Cultures 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Given its growing influence, students must be equipped with computational thinking skills to genuinely connect and contribute to our digital world. Public school students’ computer use must move beyond consuming information and performing routine tasks like reading, writing and presenting.

K-12 140

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Social Studies 140

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

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In Powerful Teaching , the authors focus on the potential of: Retrieval practice – “pulling information out of students’ heads (e.g., quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., These educational practices can be powerful tools for information retrieval. lectures)” (p.

Learning Science 143

Learning Science Tradition Critical Thinking Teaching 143

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity.

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EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 131

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 139

Education K-12 Educational Technology Critical Thinking 139

ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

Its ability to swiftly transform and transfer information surpasses previous boundaries, albeit with some initial apprehension from educators. By automating tasks that humans may not excel at, generative AI empowers individuals to focus on their strengths, such as creativity, empathy and engagement. We're trying to go faster.

Humanities 98

Humanities Critical Thinking Teaching Education 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

dedicated to information, the press and journalism. Students often find themselves on the front lines of the battle against the ever-multiplying mass of inaccurate and intentionally misleading information online. A display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Photo: © Maxppp via ZUMA Press.

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Teaching Psychology Lesson Plan Critical Thinking 111

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

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For example, in middle school, students might do a role-playing game for the semester while studying molecules and the human body. The teacher sets up a fun fictional narrative where there's a shrunken scientist trapped inside a human body, and the students need to help rescue him.

Middle School 121

Middle School Critical Thinking Humanities High School 121

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of operating system for our big brains. That’s why advanced reading correlates so highly with critical thinking skills. Not only does advanced reading still offer the best, most sophisticated access to information, it also offers a crucial way to develop our minds.

Civics 102

Civics American History Elementary School Critical Thinking 102

ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. In this way, it is the starting point for research, and the heavy lifting comes on the other end of the information garnered from the software. 1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. era: hand-written scrolls.

Education 140

Education Critical Thinking Teaching History 140

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. Understanding context is a crucial human skill that is best taught through storytelling and real-world applications.

Advocacy 127

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 127

ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Feed it a typical job description or help-wanted ad—that is to say, one that’s likely either vague or full of jargon—and its artificial intelligence-informed system spits out a new version of that text translated into the language of skills. He thinks a new system is needed. —Michael Bettersworth SkillsEngine performs clever tasks.

Government 123

Government Tradition Humanities Teaching 123

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here, we take a look at jobs that, to the extent that workforce and automation research can predict the future, will continue to depend largely on uniquely human skills, thus remaining relatively robot-proof. The analysis was based on information from the O*NET Resource Center and the U.S. Automotive body and glass repairs.

Critical Thinking 111

Critical Thinking High School Research Teaching 111

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.” More information can be found at [link].

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Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 114

ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Build time in your lessons to name essential contributions made by women and BIPOC scientists that inform foundational concepts in science. Infuse your curriculum with diverse cultural perspectives and contributions to science concepts and development. Diversity alone isn’t enough.

K-12 102

K-12 Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

Instead of staying with the same two teachers in the same room for most of the day, students have one teacher for a combined science and math class and another for a humanities class that brings language arts and social studies together. You’re learning it more deeply because you’re actually the one finding information,” she said.

Project-Based Learning 112

Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112

ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

What her findings mean for educators, she argues, is that lessons for adolescents should be designed to lean into this period of human development. Adolescence is a time when young people are moving out into the world — think of the baby bird as leaving the nest,” she says. And it's important for them to be exploratory.

Teaching 141

Teaching Humanities Critical Thinking Middle School 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: A common complaint about personalized learning is that it takes autonomy away from the teacher, leaving students to be taught by computers that adapt to their skill level. Tigert selects a range of readings and videos that students can choose from to learn historical information. Weekly Update.

History 111

History Critical Thinking High School Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

But I think that’s starting to change because of what students want,” said Ben Wildavsky, a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development and author of the new book “The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

Humanities 139

Humanities Professional Development Critical Thinking Leadership 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Yet only 21 percent of teachers felt “very informed” on the topic and only 44 percent said they had the right resources to teach it most of the time or always. She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” Kids come in with, ‘Humans harm the earth and the earth is dying,’” she said.

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Sometimes, executives need to break the rules and think outside the proverbial box. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. Of course, data should inform decisions. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

Sociology 76

Sociology Psychology Humanities Cultures 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Civics 85

Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 85

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Molly Castner, a middle school ELA teacher who, intrigued by the prospect of providing real-time feedback to students and fostering critical thinking, embraced the integration of AI in her classroom. You are still a thinking and feeling human being!

Education 98

Education Middle School Critical Thinking Teaching 98

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

And how does that inform your decision to teach? history, European history, human geography, AP government. We need teachers who are willing to admit that they may not always be right about everything; teachers who are willing to be challenged and to learn from others; and teachers who practice critical thinking and active listening.

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