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

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The narrative I often hear centers on how students may resist active learning approaches, a teaching style that often (but not always) is predicated on some technology. On the show, individuals read aloud the beliefs and struggles that guide their daily lives. Prepare to learn about yourself and your students.

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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The most recent results of the Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+) test—a standardized testing initiative designed to measure college students’ critical thinking skills—are not encouraging. That student’s intellectual development will be stunted, and her ability to make sense of new information will be compromised.

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

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So to develop what we commonly think of as critical thinking or critical capacities. And in order to do that, you have to have a maximalist approach to the exchange of ideas for human beings to learn, and to extend the realm of their knowledge. I mean, we want to build a beautiful campus—I think beauty is a prerequisite of learning.

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