With so much talk about the Common Core standards and truly increasing our student’s argumentative powers and critical thinking skills, some teachers are starting to think critically themselves about ...
Critical thinking (CT) is key to any meaningful use of AI in education. In fact, CT matters with or without AI, but once AI ...
Editor’s Note: Ali Giska, a literacy coach in Berlin, Maryland, participated in the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC) and traveled to Brazil. The experience inspired her to work to instill ...
Does outsourcing your cognition come at a cost? As the emergence of artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize aspects of modern life, including education, a new study from the Center for ...
Politics delivered via political ads are divisive, biased, and tough to parse. All the better to help teach tomorrow’s voters today’s 21st-century skills. As high school social studies teachers in a ...
Students’ increasing critical thinking and inventiveness will help them satisfy the expectations of an ever-changing environment. These skills enable students to approach problems with original ideas, ...
Politics within university courses is a tricky, but timely, topic for most students and professors. In a society where one comment can cost you the respect of colleagues and students, or even your job ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What is critical thinking and how can we integrate it into the classroom? This three-part series will explore what critical thinking is, if it can be specifically ...
Whenever you lead a class discussion, you naturally want to see your students eagerly participating. It shows they’re engaged, and that’s surely a prerequisite for learning. But too often academics ...
As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...
In 2018, a Hart survey revealed that out of over 500 business executives interviewed, 78% agreed that critical thinking is the most essential skill they desire to see demonstrated in their employees.