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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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While these courses produced positive results at Plymouth State, similar courses at other schools did not achieve similar success. Beyond question, this is a serious problem; without critical thinking skills, students can fall into, or reinforce, bad intellectual habits.

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Beyond Digital Literacy: How EdTech Fosters Children’s Social-Emotional Development

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A child’s emotional well-being and self-confidence is essential to social and intellectual development. They might see it as a way to get kids to behave rather than as a way to achieve improved academic, economic and social outcomes for their students. These negative emotions can also interfere with the learning process.