eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we examine the significance of digital literacy skills, we’ll focus on highlighting their role in empowering students to navigate the complexities of the information age, fostering critical thinking, and preparing them for the challenges of an increasingly interconnected and technologically-driven world.

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Skills Critical Thinking Ethics Evaluation 130

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools. Here is one example from an AI reflective assignment that I tried out in my classes, followed by some other actionable strategies you may want to try out.

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Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 116

k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

Curriculum standards have evolved to meet the needs of todays students by incorporating skills essential for the modern workforce, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and digital literacy. Teachers also worry about the possibility of students using AI to complete assignments without truly engaging in the learning process.

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Technology Teaching Methods Critical Thinking Learning Styles 130

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Libraries support students’ literacy and lifelong learning, help develop their empathy, build their critical thinking skills, and empower them with skills to navigate their world. Moreover, school library faculty must partner with administrators and teachers to ensure students adopt effective critical thinking and research skills.

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2023

Pedagogy that encourages the adoption of the biography of an idea is student-centered; contextual; participatory; interdisciplinary; inclusive, dialectical, and visual. Designing the structure and requirements for an annotated timeline assignment can take a myriad of formats. Several sample annotated timeline assignments follow.

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Interdisciplinary Assignments Culture Beliefs 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2023

Pedagogy that encourages the adoption of the biography of an idea is student-centered; contextual; participatory; interdisciplinary; inclusive, dialectical, and visual. Designing the structure and requirements for an annotated timeline assignment can take a myriad of formats. Several sample annotated timeline assignments follow.

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Interdisciplinary Assignments Culture Beliefs 98

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. It was positive.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

Traditional high schools often prioritize rote learning and standardized testing, which can limit your ability to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. They provide a choice for parents and students dissatisfied with their assigned public schools.

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High School High School Learning Styles Schools 151

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Classrooms using effective teaching methods that create engaging activities and promote active learning and critical thinking are more likely to result in deeper learning (Fink, 2013). The transition from external preoccupations to a classroom focus is a critical moment in the learning process. Padlet is a good digital tool.

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Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

To enhance interaction, instructors can assign mixed-location breakout groups where students collaborate via Zoom on case studies. This “think-pair-share” approach not only fostered critical thinking but also ensured everyone had a voice. Miner, Ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 94

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

To enhance interaction, instructors can assign mixed-location breakout groups where students collaborate via Zoom on case studies. This “think-pair-share” approach not only fostered critical thinking but also ensured everyone had a voice. Miner, Ed.). References Beatty, B. EdTech Books.

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Classrooms using effective teaching methods that create engaging activities and promote active learning and critical thinking are more likely to result in deeper learning (Fink, 2013). The transition from external preoccupations to a classroom focus is a critical moment in the learning process. Padlet is a good digital tool.

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Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

If one student is working at a very challenging level, and another is working at a much more basic level, and they both do well on the assignment, should they get the same grade? I’ve always been a fan of this strategy, but during that session, someone asked a question that I couldn’t answer: How do we grade these fairly?

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Learning Knowledge Grades Questions 77

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

We call this process of prioritization, triangulation, and analogizing concentric thinking, as it involves making multiple layered connections, similar to how our brains develop schemas. Concentric Thinking At the core of our model are three interrelated cognitive moves that writing facilitates: prioritization, translation, and analogy.

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

We call this process of prioritization, triangulation, and analogizing concentric thinking, as it involves making multiple layered connections, similar to how our brains develop schemas. Concentric Thinking At the core of our model are three interrelated cognitive moves that writing facilitates: prioritization, translation, and analogy.

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Students in agriculture courses can complete assignments to learn the different roles of elected versus appointed officials in agricultural policies. Critical thinking and information and media literacy belong everywhere. Key questions to guide student learning include: How do we know what we know? Who provided it?

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Curriculum Multidisciplinary Learning Outcomes Critical Thinking 145

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Students in agriculture courses can complete assignments to learn the different roles of elected versus appointed officials in agricultural policies. Critical thinking and information and media literacy belong everywhere. Key questions to guide student learning include: How do we know what we know? Who provided it?

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Curriculum Multidisciplinary Learning Outcomes Critical Thinking 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration. Another effective approach is personalized assignments (Driessen et al.

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 67

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration. Another effective approach is personalized assignments (Driessen et al.

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 64