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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. What does character building look like online?

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

Edsurge

Both professors and students at Plymouth State noted that classes at the school provide little direct information about critical thinking; instead, they provide a framework for critical reasoning that leads students to ask the right questions and seek out information on their own.

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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. To write a story, a writer must ask important questions: Where does this story begin? All rights reserved.

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

” At an evocative point in a story (or a point of uncertainty in science or social studies), we ask open questions like: “What are you thinking?” Her question requires the students to construct the causal relationship between inviting in the quiet student and the quality of the ensuing experience — a self-interest motive.

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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. To write a story, a writer must ask important questions: Where does this story begin? All rights reserved.

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

Edsurge

What sort of things do we need to do as students, as faculty, as a campus community that will allow us to get to know each other as human beings in the deepest possible way so that we can then engage in the kind of vexing questions that humanity faces. What answers are worse when we ask questions? What answers are better?

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