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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. But what if instead student reflections could be used to capture information about students’ sense of meaning and purpose?

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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Relatively few students who took the test showed any improvement between freshman and senior years, even at schools where critical thinking was part of the curriculum. Those results show wide divergences between schools, but they don’t necessarily explain why some schools perform well while others do not.

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

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And early in his career, he was a classroom teacher in a school as well, as part of one of the first cohorts of teachers in Teach for America. That we're creating an institution that is going to welcome people from across the spectrum of political inclination, belief and experience. I think you gotta separate those things.

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