Critical Thinking Information Social Science 
Catlin Tucker
JUNE 16, 2024
The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. Application activities also enhance retention and mastery of information, making it more likely that students will retain and effectively use what they have learned in the future.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 5, 2024
Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. There, too often, struggling students attempt to discredit the educator and the field of social science. Education is meant to broaden horizons and encourage critical thinking.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2022
The bill , which won bipartisan support from the state’s senate and assembly, would require the New Jersey Department of Education to develop learning standards across K-12 in media and information literacy. Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media.
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.
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. But that’s maybe 20 percent. The other 80 percent, what about them?” Majors that require calculus were excluded.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 1, 2018
These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And that alone will unleash critical thinking and innovation.
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.” In most of education we think knowledge leads to difference in behavior,” she said.
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