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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. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom. How do we do that?

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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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. 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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That we're creating an institution that is going to welcome people from across the spectrum of political inclination, belief and experience. Those human needs include pastoral needs, intellectual development, socialization, those sorts of things. I think you gotta separate those things.

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