the way that good ideas usually come into the world. They are, inevitably, constrained by the parts and skills that surround them.
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What follows is an approach to teaching critical thinking that includes a "methodological belief" process (the believing game) and a "methodological doubt" process (the doubting game). An excerpt from "Civil Disobedience" will be the take-off point for an outline of how the two games might be used with students as they study any controversial issue. Starred items in the description of the doubting game refer to suggested lesson plans that follow the conclusion of the game. Teachers may find one or more of them useful when a close examination of some aspect of the question process seems desirable.
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What follows is an approach to teaching critical thinking that includes a "methodological belief" process (the believing game) and a "methodological doubt" process (the doubting game). An excerpt from "Civil Disobedience" will be the take-off point for an outline of how the two games might be used with students as they study any controversial issue. Starred items in the description of the doubting game refer to suggested lesson plans that follow the conclusion of the game. Teachers may find one or more of them useful when a close examination of some aspect of the question process seems desirable.
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the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
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The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them
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Building School-Based Student Digital Book Clubs | MiddleWeb - 0 views
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So instead of focusing on skill development alone, we considered engagement.
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real readers find pockets of time during the day in which to squeeze some reading, known in her classes as “reading emergencies.” Highly portable digital devices make it much easier to exploit these pockets of time.
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responses to their reading on Kidblog.
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How a Bigger Purpose Can Motivate Students to Learn | MindShift - 1 views
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“However, the reality is that schoolwork is often neither interesting nor meaningful,” he said — at least, not in a way that students immediately get.
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a mindset of “self-transcendent” purposeful learning
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They’re learning how to learn, how to practice self-discipline and motivate themselves through frustrating roadblocks, and thus are preparing for adulthood.
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How a Bigger Purpose Can Motivate Students to Learn - Potential of a Purposeful Mindset http://t.co/wD1xRdOF7z via @MindShiftKQED #edchat
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