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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

ED Surge

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. That end-to-end process is creative thinking.

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The Impact of Creativity on College and Career Readiness

ED Surge

Creativity is more than an artistic skill; it involves thinking differently, collaborating, developing solutions and communicating in a way that connects with others. Leveraging creativity in the classroom helps students develop a deeper understanding and make cross-curricular connections.

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Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity

ED Surge

Engagement and creativity play such important roles in the learning process, but with the myriad of other requirements and obligations, they can easily get lost in the abyss of deadlines and mandates. Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over.

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The Impact of Game-Based Learning Solutions on Critical Thinking

Magic EdTech

Computer games empower understudies to connect socially while at the same time fostering critical thinking abilities. Improves spatial reasoning and critical thinking The ability to visualize and manipulate two- and three-layered objects is known as spatial thinking.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts.

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3 Ways to Increase Critical Thinking at Your School

Carly and Adam

This is my third school year delivering play-based professional learning to the teachers there, and the administrators asked that I focus our day of learning on critical thinking. Critical Thinking” a buzzword we hear often in the EDU world, especially in STEM spaces. Lean into the discomfort of not knowing “how.”

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4 Game-Based Learning Solutions to Enhance Critical Thinking

Magic EdTech

Computer games empower understudies to connect socially while at the same time fostering critical thinking abilities. Improves spatial reasoning and critical thinking The ability to visualize and manipulate two- and three-layered objects is known as spatial thinking.