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David Wetzel

How to Encourage Critical Thinking in Science and Math | Teaching Science and Math - 22 views

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    Encouraging students to use critical thinking is more than an extension activity in science and math lessons, it is the basis of true learning. Teaching students how to think critically helps them move beyond basic comprehension and rote memorization. They shift to a new level of increased awareness when calculating, analyzing, problem solving, and evaluating.
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    Truly love your list of extended queries to extend our queries thanks David.
David Wetzel

10 Education Apps for iPod and iPhone that Support Adult Learning | Suite101.com - 27 views

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    Features and cost of education applications are provided for anyone in search of a way to make their mobile devices useful for learning in higher education.
Tero Toivanen

Times Higher Education - From where I sit - Everyone wins in this free-for-all - 5 views

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    The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education.
David Wetzel

Modeling the Composition of Earth's Atmosphere: The Layer of Gases Surrounding Planet E... - 6 views

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    This is a hands-on, minds-on approach to provide students with a concrete model of the earth's atmosphere to visualize the gases which comprise the air they breath.
David Wetzel

Investigating the Impact of Artificial Reefs: Problem-Based Learning Study of Human Inf... - 4 views

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    Students make connections with many science concepts and communicate their recommendations to officials and organizations regarding the future of artificial reefs.
David Wetzel

Understanding Scientific Inquiry: Inquiry Involves the Use of Critical Thinking to Unde... - 7 views

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    Scientific inquiry causes students to use higher order thinking skills and learn science from a minds-on approach. Inquiry's foundation originates with John Dewey. In Dewey's book Democracy in Education (1916), he indicates that education begins with the curiosity of learners. Student curiosity and involvement in scientific inquiry moves them beyond passive learning to higher order thinking.
Ruth Howard

Purdue OWL - 2 views

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    APA style citation referencing updated resource link
Ruth Howard

M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "M.I.T.'s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student. Some offer advice on the application process and the institute's intense workload; others write about quirkier topics,"
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