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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

ED Surge

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.

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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own. Take Adobe Express for Education , for example. million certifications.

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OPINION: To fight online trolls, we must teach teenagers how to think like them

The Hechinger Report

Only half of Americans say their schools gave them strong critical-thinking skills, according to a study released this week by the Reboot Foundation, where I serve as executive director. Related: COLUMN: What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. Louis has an amazing collection of interviews from the Great Depression.

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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org.

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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

ED Surge

As opposed to, say, teaching students how to live “ the good life ,” or how to discern meaning through art and literature , or how to critique the very system that demands human productivity in exchange for pay in the first place. The college regularly conducts research to answer questions such as, “What are we teaching well?

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How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in US schools

The Hechinger Report

The new standards emphasize scientific inquiry and critical thinking over recitation of facts. She said timely and even controversial topics can help ignite students’ interest, and she’s currently developing a lesson plan on the “nature of science” that will use the coronavirus as the main theme.