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

Edsurge

The social and intellectual development that both students and instructors undergo when we discuss and debate ideas is at the center of why we educate. The social and intellectual development that both students and instructors undergo when we discuss and debate ideas is at the center of why we educate. Leverage partners.

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

Edsurge

Over at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, a New York public school named after the African-American civil rights leader that stresses intellectual development and social involvement, Jeff Palladino sits in his principal’s office for the last time in what promises to be a long while.

Schools 216
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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

Edsurge

That student’s intellectual development will be stunted, and her ability to make sense of new information will be compromised. Consider two paths: the first taken by a student for whom facts exist independently of reality, and for whom all facts (as long as they fit into an existing world view) have equal merit.

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

Edsurge

We would not be in this room, I would not be able to speak with you today, if there wasn’t perseverance, courage, creativity, intellectual development—all of these things that people of African descent have been and continue to be in this country, and the power of the spirit of African Americans is being celebrated today.

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

This means learning to think together to overcome the limitations of our own experience and logic, to use the diversity of experience, perspective, and intellectual resources to solve the problems that arise in democratic living, and to ratchet forward our own intellectual development.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. All rights reserved. Plot really is everything. Not just in story writing but in all writing and most thinking.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. All rights reserved. Plot really is everything. Not just in story writing but in all writing and most thinking.