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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. On the show, individuals read aloud the beliefs and struggles that guide their daily lives. The popular NPR program titled “This I Believe,” espouse this ethos on a weekly basis. Leverage partners.

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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This is a serious problem that educators need to understand and address. Pair that with confirmation bias (the tendency to seek out and believe information that maps to one’s own beliefs) and you have a recipe for trouble. Today’s educators need to do a lot more to help students understand how to evaluate information.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

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And one of the things that inspired us was the state of higher education today where it feels like the scope for that kind of exploration is becoming increasingly restricted or constricted for various reasons. … I mean, the left does dominate higher education, yes. They have to be explorers. That's not the problem.

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