Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. is not merely a technological upgrade; it is a reimagined learning experience that promotes self-directed learning, critical thinking, and inclusivity.

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to.

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Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

This Blooms Digital Taxonomy helps teachers evaluate and design digital tasks like ChatGPT use, blogging, podcasting, and more. The post A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

Melissa Vito, EdD Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, University of Texas at San Antonio According to Carnegie and ETS research, the 11 most important durable skills are collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, digital and AI literacy, growth mindset, leadership, perseverance, self-regulation and civic engagement.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2025

The framework prioritizes the importance of human skills, including as critical thinking, creativity, and emotional intelligence, and offers higher-ed institutions structured guidance around creating AI literacy approaches that will equip individuals with key foundational AI competencies and industry-specific applications.

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Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? It aligns traditional thinking levels—Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create—with today’s digital tasks, tools, and media.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

In today’s world, where misinformation is rampant and digital literacy is more important than ever, students must also develop the critical thinking skills to evaluate sources and identify truth. But accessibility alone isn’t enough.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Only when I’m clear on the objective—whether it’s collaboration, reflection, critical thinking, or empathy—do I select the technology that best supports that goal. These approaches develop not just knowledge but critical thinking, empathy, and systems awareness—skills that are increasingly essential in a volatile, uncertain world.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

During the summer months, the platform provides free access to a curated collection of mini-lessons designed to spark curiosity and critical thinking. The activities are rooted in the 5E instructional model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) and cover topics ranging from earth science and chemistry to engineering design.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education has long been valued for its broad-based approach to learning, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and a well-rounded knowledge base. For this it is essential to introduce the concepts and principles of systems thinking (Figure 1).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education has long been valued for its broad-based approach to learning, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and a well-rounded knowledge base. For this it is essential to introduce the concepts and principles of systems thinking (Figure 1).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills. solving a case study, evaluating evidence, or designing a project). Create tasks that are complex enough to require collaboration (e.g.,

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Only when I’m clear on the objective—whether it’s collaboration, reflection, critical thinking, or empathy—do I select the technology that best supports that goal. These approaches develop not just knowledge but critical thinking, empathy, and systems awareness—skills that are increasingly essential in a volatile, uncertain world.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills. solving a case study, evaluating evidence, or designing a project). Create tasks that are complex enough to require collaboration (e.g.,

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

Deadlines for each phase keep the momentum going, while incorporating peer evaluation into the final grade ensures consistent participation. This approach not only reinforces learning but also develops critical thinking skills that serve students well beyond our course.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Building on this tradition, the activity we will share here not only incorporates music but also integrates artificial intelligence, adding a new layer of engagement and critical thinking. These insights foster critical thinking, helping them to develop a more mature approach to technology and its impact on their learning.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

ProEd Global School undergoes regular evaluations of its curriculum, teaching methodologies, and student outcomes to ensure that it meets the highest international standards. The school believes that skills like critical thinking, teamwork, and creativity are just as important as academic knowledge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

By positioning code as a creative tool, educators can tap into students' intrinsic motivation while simultaneously building computational thinking skills. It aligns with digital literacy frameworks that emphasize critical evaluation, meaningful contribution and not just technical skills.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Building on this tradition, the activity we will share here not only incorporates music but also integrates artificial intelligence, adding a new layer of engagement and critical thinking. These insights foster critical thinking, helping them to develop a more mature approach to technology and its impact on their learning.

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k12 Online Schools

JUNE 24, 2025

Digital literacy refers to the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate, and create information using a range of digital technologies. Furthermore, digital literacy fosters critical thinking and creativity, enabling children to become not just consumers of information but also contributors to the digital world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

In this new paradigm, collaboration and critical thinking are essential. The use of digital tools fosters collaboration and interaction, which can enhance critical thinking skills. To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Simply put, writing is our critical thinking made visible. Because it is a critical thinking process, writing isn’t merely an act of jotting down what you have in your head. Because it is a critical thinking process, writing isn’t merely an act of jotting down what you have in your head.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Summer brings the chance to slow down, evaluate what matters most, and set new goals for next year. Maybe you’ve thought about trying a new classroom management strategy, exploring new methods for student engagement, or digging into the latest trends in education.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

For those drawn to intellectual challenges, the Chess Club provides an opportunity to develop critical thinking and strategic planning in a competitive yet supportive environment. Future initiatives focus on enhancing academics, expanding support services, and strengthening community partnerships.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

In other words, theyre not just passive consumers of information, theyre critical thinkers. Whats important is creating opportunities for students to question, reason, and reflect–core components of both critical thinking and data literacy.

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Cal Matters

JULY 8, 2025

Democratic lawmakers at odds with one another over new standards In introducing his bill, Jones-Sawyer viewed a college education as paramount to law enforcement training because it would expose incoming officers to new perspectives, healthy debate and critical thinking skills. “We

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

On the 2nd Day of Edtech, our story focuses on critical thinking. To make real gains, teachers need to address the underlying problem: the critical thinking gap. These five critical thinking strategies can help. Why focus on critical thinking? Here are some ways teachers can get started: 1.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

(CAE), a nonprofit developer of performance-based assessments that authentically measure students’ essential academic and career skills, today announced the launch of its new Critical Thinking Skills Resources. Preview sample scenarios from the Critical Thinking Skills Resources by clicking here.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

How can we help students become critical thinkers and smart consumers of information who also have empathy for others? Instead, they need the skills to evaluate online information for themselves. Monitoring students’ internet access in school won’t help them once they leave the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2023

Designed for students in grades six through 12, CCRA+ assesses critical thinking, problem solving and written communications – essential skills that are predictive of positive academic and career success. Pearson will resell CCRA+ as part of its Pearson Assessment for Learning Suite (PALS).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This is the kind of subtle distinction that critical-thinking skills should help illuminate. That’s the hypothesis that Motz and other psychology researchers from Indiana University tested in a study whose findings they believe point to a promising method for strengthening critical-thinking muscles. lack of control.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. It allows students to compile evidence of learning through text, images, videos, and links, fostering creativity and critical thinking. Its intuitive interface empowers even young learners to express themselves confidently.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Students can see how teachers make snap judgments to rule out certain search results and how they dig deeper into other search results to evaluate their authority. They can walk students through their thought processes for picking and choosing between a list of websites in a set of search results.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2023

When students can view and interpret their formative assessment data, they can engage in metacognitive processes, such as planning and goal setting, tracking and monitoring their progress, and evaluating and reflecting on their learning. This reflective process is key to promoting self-awareness and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about academic dishonesty, loss of critical thinking skills, and inappropriate content creation have sparked discussions about banning AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and others. AI replaces critical thinking Some worry that AI will lead to intellectual laziness. generating connections between concepts).

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