Educators Technology

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The purpose of critical thinking is to inform our behaviours, actions, decisions and to "improve our ability to reason and generate strong arguments" (Hanscomb, 2016, p. In this non-critical state, the mind becomes a warehouse of facts, a receptacle of unfiltered ideas and arguments. Critical questions are precursors of deep learning.

Critical Thinking 348

Critical Thinking Argumentation Problem Solving Deep Learning 348

Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We wondered whether there was a link between connections to place and the learning that occurs there.” While formal science education – the science we study in school or college – provides important scientific skills and knowledge, a lot of learning occurs outside of formal settings. Why is citizen science important?

Geography 98

Geography Research Research Science 98

Middle Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Emily Mofield offers a practical, realistic and highly readable set of 25 different approaches to teaching in her Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced and High-Potential Students, a book that almost any classroom teacher would find highly useful, writes Leslie Wise.

Teaching 76

Teaching Deep Learning Problem Solving Argumentation 76