"It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet
seldom teach them anything about learning."
"We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are
teaching them what to think."
"Many 17-year-olds do not possess the 'higher-order'
intellectual skills we should expect of them. Nearly 40 percent
cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can
write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a
mathematics problem requiring several steps."
Critical thinking can be described as the scientific method
applied by ordinary people to the ordinary world.
Critical thinking is a learned ability that must be taught. Most
individuals never learn it. Critical thinking cannot be taught
reliably to students by peers or by most parents. Trained and
knowledgable instructors are necessary to impart the proper
information and skills.
Critical thinking means correct thinking in the pursuit of
relevant and reliable knowledge about the world.
Good essay idea for Frankenstein that will enable students to explore one of the novel's themes in an expository essay about science and technology monsters we've created.
paper management questions are logical, legitimate questions to ask, I will suggest that as teachers we should be asking instead, must we continue to think of our role as paper creators, paper controllers, paper graders?
Essay writing skill is one of the greatest gifts I can help my students to achieve. I am not willing to change that belief but I have become quite willing to embrace changes in the way the process looks.
I have stopped seeing work as stagnant…completed and submitted by students and then graded by me.
All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.
Writing their own blog posts can open up a whole new world for your students. Most likely it will be the first time that the readers of their work will be someone other than their teacher and possibly their parent.
Moulton makes some great points here about "any-century skills." I see his point in that balance needs to be achieved b/w so-called "new" skills and the traditional elements of literacy.
Correcting their mistakes is editing, and if that is what you enjoy you should have gotten into book publishing. We are teachers and our job is to teach students how to use the English language.
"The VocabGrabber brings new magic to an already magical site allowing the visitor to mix up a great stew or gumbo of words that combines tastes, flavors and meanings without individual tastes being lost in the process. "
"The Center for Digital Storytelling is an international not-for-profit community arts organization rooted in the craft of personal storytelling. We assist youth and adults around the world in using media tools to share, record, and value stories from their lives, in ways that promote artistic expression, health and well being, and justice."