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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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

These schedules are rigid, designed not to maximize learning, but to maintain compliance with an outdated factory model that prioritizes memorization and recall over deep understanding and critical thinking. The result? Time becomes a barrier instead of a tool.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

He knows that having students engage with one another across neighborhoods, nations, and even continents builds cultural understanding, appreciation for diversity, global knowledge and global engagement– learning outcomes we have defined and measured –as well as general academic skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

Whether you’re looking to better understand your students’ prior knowledge or check for understanding at the end of a unit, this is one tool to keep in mind! So, let’s take the plunge and turn our classrooms into hubs of curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking! Gimkit is engaging and a fun way to tackle assessment.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Creative projects help students connect new information to prior knowledge through critical thinking and problem solving. With the use of technology, students are better able to apply their knowledge in different ways and be creative in their learning. Why creativity?

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2021

Project-based learning gives students deeper learning experiences, and as they apply their knowledge, they develop soft skills such as critical thinking and team work–skills they’ll carry through to college and the workforce. Educators know project-based learning (PBL) isn’t simply another teaching strategy.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Students explore practical applications of theoretical knowledge, such as designing simple machines, programming robots, or analyzing environmental data. Integrating STEM into K-12 curricula helps prepare students for a world that increasingly depends on interdisciplinary knowledge.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Let’s explore how these strategies promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding among students, enhancing academic success. Active learning strategies for students in K-12 encompass a range of techniques designed to promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

By working the corporate world, I’ve seen the connections between what is taught in the classroom and how that knowledge is applied in the workplace. Critical thinking : Many folks go through the motions in their working lives–following directions, meeting quotas, and, simply put, people pleasing!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This shift has the potential to make assessments more engaging and more reflective of real-world skills and knowledge application. In this new era, educators are exploring innovative assessment methods that emphasize critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

First, our students need problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Problem-solving and critical thinking is the ability to use knowledge, facts, and data to effectively solve problems. Having critical skills and the ability to identify solutions to problems is a marketable skill in any arena.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Mentoring Minds , a leading provider of K-12 instructional and critical thinking materials, announces the availability of the Mentoring Minds Resource Library, a mobile app comprised of resources to support instruction and promote student success.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

This is especially concerning in education, where critical thinking and contextual understanding are essential. Generating truly new ideas (instead of just remixing old ones) AI is great at rearranging existing knowledge, but it doesnt create truly original ideas. Critical thinking and innovation remain uniquely human skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

Learning does not just mean facts and content but includes a broad range of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and effective written communication, as well as social and emotional well-being. .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for students to compete in a rapidly changing world that requires critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

By understanding the strengths and limitations of each LLM, we can strategically deploy them to optimize learning outcomes, personalize instruction, and foster critical thinking and creativity in our students. We’ll demystify the complexities and empower you with the knowledge and skills needed for success. South 320GH) 2.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Recently added lessons enable elementary students to explore the phenomena of seasonal change, travel back in time to a medieval castle, investigate animal habitats around the world, and more.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

From the early days of kindergarten, teachers have used crafts as a way to foster students’ curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Evaluate: Critical thinking comes into play when students evaluate their work and the work of their peers.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

It allows students to compile evidence of learning through text, images, videos, and links, fostering creativity and critical thinking. Adobe Express: Adobe Express allows students to record video responses to prompts, making it a good choice for educators looking to assess verbal communication, critical thinking, and creativity.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

I admit that I did not have the most thoughtful or eloquent answer as I discussed trying to keep up with advances, to recognize the utility of AI, but also to continue to foster critical thinking skills in my students. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. Employers seek candidates who not only have technical knowledge, but also have problem-solving skills, adaptability, and communication skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Numerous applications and platforms can facilitate engaged learning and critical thinking , helping students consume information and analyze, evaluate, and create content responsibly. These platforms allow students to tackle real-life scenarios, fostering critical thinking about online media influence and ethical behavior.

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Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 306

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

We are no longer keepers and passers of knowledge as we once were. With infinite information at their fingertips, how do we equip this new type of student with the skills to interpret, problem solve, and think critically about the information they encounter when we are not always the ones delivering it to them?

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 306

eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2024

It equips them with the knowledge to critically evaluate information, understand scientific concepts, and make informed decisions in a rapidly changing world. This interactive exercise helps students develop critical thinking skills and recognize bias, enhancing their ability to evaluate information objectively.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This stage of the learning process encourages deeper thinking by moving beyond memorization, requiring students to engage in higher-order cognitive processes such as critical analysis and problem-solving.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

It is a dynamic, interconnected space where knowledge flows freely, and learners are active participants in their educational journey. Innovations nurture essential skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, creativity, and adaptability.

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Internet Critical Thinking Quizzes Teaching Methods 310

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2020

Project-based learning gives students deeper learning experiences, and as they apply their knowledge, they develop soft skills such as critical thinking and team work–skills they’ll carry through to college and the workforce. Educators know project-based learning (PBL) isn’t simply another teaching strategy.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

STEM is incredibly important, specifically for skills like critical thinking and problem solving,” said Dr. Erika Neuman, CEO of iSTEMmentors and a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, during an ISTELive 24 session. Though many teachers tout the importance of STEM learning, many also shy away from the “E” in STEM.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Lecturing 311

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Kristen Brittingham, the chief learning officer for Modern Teacher, have co-authored a white paper titled “Active Learning Environments Support Student Engagement, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking.”. The paper focuses on research regarding the role of active learning environments in the development of these critical skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

We can see that AI can augment teaching, but the human touch remains irreplaceable in fostering empathy, creativity, and critical thinking,” Angeles said. With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What aspects of a teacher’s work lead them to engage in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection? Where are they seeing growth in their skills and/or content knowledge? It encourages them to think critically, creatively problem-solve, reflect, and lean on their peers for support.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Some have limited application and require lower levels of critical thinking; others are foundational to future learning and broadly applicable. I’ve often found that the best classrooms are those that carefully balance timeless knowledge with innovations that push boundaries. But this is only the beginning.

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Metacognitive Skills Critical Thinking Fairness Testing 300

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2021

By simply adopting an already-popular game and using it as a tool to impart knowledge, students are more engaged and learn more. They applied critical thinking to analyze and solve problems. They see through this right away and therefore don’t become as engaged. Educating in Minecraft is the opposite of that. Here’s an example.

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Learning Critical Thinking Knowledge Teaching 312

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2020

Even now, as students are learning at home and with fall openings uncertain, school librarians play an important role in helping students develop important critical thinking and digital citizenship skills–skills they’ll need more than ever in an increasingly online world with unvetted sources of information shared far and wide.

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