ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2022

Faculty members who have been teaching seminars face-to-face for years, encouraging peer-to-peer interaction, animating engagement and debate may not find the shift online as intuitive when facing a screen. Not every instructor is adept at translating what works face to face to remote instruction.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking. Lin created an installation with discarded plastic bottles that could be easily found in all the residential buildings and seminar rooms (Figure 3).

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Stamford, for instance, has created two types of seminars for the teachers in the Allegheny school districts he services — a general introduction, and a subject-specific one, where he brings together educators from the same discipline to share activities they use AI tools for. Students are just as worried about this [critical thinking loss].

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They were acquainted with critical thinking; they’d engaged in source analysis and even participated in Socratic Seminars. It challenged my students to think in multidisciplinary ways, and we ended our unit with a lively Socratic Seminar that was contextually meaningful, rich with evidence, and a lot of fun!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

One way the school has tried to encourage students’ to keep their options open is by introducing college seminar-style classes like the Genocide Studies course, currently an honors-level elective. It activates their critical thinking — when there’s a problem, how do you react to it?” Xerras said afterward.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. My students were starting to figure things out, using their critical thinking skills. First discovering what was done to build the project, to reshape the river, they then asked and debated questions like Why was this done? How did they do it?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education. Josipa Roksa: And so the data shows that, you know, many students are not making much progress on the critical-thinking skills over the first two years.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, in this four-credit course (three credits for the assessment class and one for the student teaching seminar), students learn about assessment as they plan lessons that they will deploy in their practicum placements and beyond. In other words, assessment is one of the classes they take right before entering the field.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities must put our ethical values and critical thinking tools to work to explicitly challenge such “post-truth” distortions.

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