TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers The ability to ask the right question at the right time is a powerful indicator of authentic understanding.

Critical Thinking 328

Critical Thinking Tradition Artifacts Cultures 328

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

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 130

Project-Based Learning Middle School High School Critical Thinking 130

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. But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The future will leave room for human teachers.

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 9, 2015

Jordan Shapiro said: The majority of [learning] games fail because they attempt to teach skills rather than thinking. They miss the whole reason we should be excited about game-based learning in the first place: because it offers the potential to change the common way we approach teaching and learning. via [link].

Teaching 109

Teaching Education Critical Thinking Humanities 109

ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. What her findings mean for educators, she argues, is that lessons for adolescents should be designed to lean into this period of human development. And it's important for them to be exploratory.

Teaching 140

Teaching Humanities Critical Thinking Middle School 140

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Her response stunned me, not just because she had yelled, but because of who she wasa student who had been a leader in my classroom, someone with whom I had built a strong relationship through teaching art the previous year. Then, I walked back inside and continued teaching. For weeks, I couldnt stop thinking about her reaction.

Pedagogy 58

Pedagogy Humanities Classroom Management Critical Thinking 58

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If we continue teaching the same way we did before AI, we risk making our classrooms irrelevant. 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. AI is doing the same to education.

Teaching 40

Teaching Critical Thinking Humanities Research 40

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. They may discover through existential experience that their present way of life is irreconcilable with their vocation to become fully human.

Pedagogy 271

Pedagogy Humanities Social Justice Cultures 271

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 113

Heritage Critical Thinking High School Humanities 113

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

When we abruptly transitioned online in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought the classes I teach at my flagship research university would resume in person in a matter of weeks — and for sure by the fall semester. My living room and personal MacBook Pro were no longer adequate. What did you buy, and how’d it work out?

Teaching 141

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Economics 141

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 111

Civic Engagement EdTech Civics Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The power of VR to stoke empathy is the focus of research at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by communications professor Jeremy Bailenson. Mark’s blog post about teaching empathy mentions both the refugee VR video and one about the lives of police in Flint, Michigan. “In The post Can Virtual Reality “teach” empathy?

Teaching 102

Teaching Middle School Humanities Professional Development 102

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. If we want them to learn and care about government, they need to DO government.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

Critical Thinking 135

Critical Thinking Social Justice Humanities Teaching 135

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

The complexities, opportunities and decisions that lie between banning AI and teaching AI are significant. Teaching AI literacy begins by teaching the capacities above, as well as others specific to your own subject. What we call cheating, business could see as efficiency and progress.

Critical Thinking 137

Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching Education 137

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

Civics 134

Civics Controversial Topics Education Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

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. Teaching young people to think critically is essential — but such instruction doesn’t have to be dry or boring.

Teaching 111

Teaching Psychology Lesson Plan High School 111

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

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Weekly Update.

Teaching 105

Teaching Education Psychology High School 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 6, 2015

More than a third of them aren’t convinced that the planet is warming, and only half think human activity is causing climate change, despite consensus among scientists that it is. via [link].

Museum 99

Museum Teaching Humanities Critical Thinking 99

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The tutor, which Kestin calls “PS2 Pal,” after the Physical Sciences 2 class he teaches, was told to only give away one step at a time and not to divulge the full solution in a single message. PS2 Pal was also instructed to encourage students to think and give it a try themselves before revealing the answer.

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

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

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Teaching kids abstract critical thinking skills is unlikely to help them think critically. A group of six teaching institutions, which include University of North Carolina – Charlotte and University of Missouri – St. The length of lectures often exceeds children’s attention spans.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Critical Thinking Research Teaching 145

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

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Throughout her educational journey, she has spanned various roles, including teaching elementary math, instructing web communications for career and technical education students and serving as an edtech consultant and speaker.

EdTech 130

EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses.

K-12 135

K-12 EdTech Tutoring Humanities 135

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

School and district leaders have shared challenges that they are facing regarding the use of AI for teaching and learning. AI has the ability to expand what learning looks like within a particular discipline, introducing novel teaching strategies and applications for concepts. What Is AI Literacy?

Education 139

Education K-12 Educational Technology Critical Thinking 139

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

Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The infographic that highlights the 65 jobs least likely to be automated, taken from The US Career Institute really drives home the importance of skills that only humans can offer—things like emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and cultural competence.

Teaching 59

Teaching Critical Thinking Leadership Cultures 59

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection.

Pedagogy 134

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. With AI, we’re teaching them to surf in an ever-changing ocean. million certifications.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 126

ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. Despite those first days of insecurity, we decided to teach ourselves to lean in to technology rather than distance ourselves from it. Critical thinking comes into play as students must locate, read and determine the legitimacy of each original source.

Education 140

Education Critical Thinking Teaching History 140

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. In Powerful Teaching , the authors focus on the potential of: Retrieval practice – “pulling information out of students’ heads (e.g., lectures)” (p.

Learning Science 143

Learning Science Tradition Critical Thinking Teaching 143

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