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Some lovely video resources. For US educators, they have the resources aligned with US standards. You can register on the site and organize the resources into your own folders (like for your classes.)
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Great lesson plan that ties in social studies curriculum with 21st century learning and digital citizenship. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products using Web 2.0 technologies, including Voice Thread.
Critical thinking is a set of values and cognitive strategies employed to rationally evaluate information for its potential usefulness and accuracy.
In this regard, critical thinking covers three fields;
Personal values embracing logic, reasoning, objectivity and internal consistency of information
Skills and cognitive approaches that allow the individual to search for and evaluate different information sources
An appreciation of the relationship between the application of accurate information in decision making and the probability of a predictable outcome
In an age of diverse media, especially with regards to the internet, information sources present confusing options. Not all information is equal. Teaching people to understand the context and cues associated with good information gives them the ability to make better informed decisions that will have the best chance of leading to those outcomes they wish for.
This places critical thinking at odds with philosophies that elevate some bodies of knowledge to being dogmatic and beyond question.
If you come across a question you can't answer, be honest. Don't bluff or portray yourself as an expert when you aren't. Instead model the collaborative skills you've developed and work together with the student to solve problems.
By sharing power you enhance the learning community.
China faces challenges in year of the rabbit: China faces challenges in year of the rabbit: Could not be reached on the Lunar New Year began on a note more edgy for China's rulers, who have been quick to..
In traditional classrooms the teacher is seen as the information
giver; knowledge flows only one way from teacher to student. In contrast,
the methods used in a collaborative
classroom emphasize shared knowledge and decision making.
Teachers may have a great deal of difficulty learning how to share control
of instruction with students.
helping students make their own decisions will conflict
with some teachers' learned experiences as well as their feelings about
being in charge.
For some teachers
this is a most difficult challenge
Similarly, students who are used to relying on teachers to give them
so much structure, direction and information will have to learn to start
asking themselves
"What can I do before I ask an adult?"
Some psychologists point out that fostering self-determination
and personal efficacy can conflict with our goals for collaborative work
(Sigel) unless we find ways to mold both goals into our instructional programs
self-direction can refer
not only to the individual but to a group, a class of students, that decides
upon goals, designs strategies and collaboratively evaluates progress on
a group basis. As Vygotsky (1978) notes,
learning to think occurs within
a social context; group speech gradually becomes internalized as personal
self-talk about confronting life's difficult, complex situations.
Finally, personal efficacy means taking control of one's destiny
school restructuring and change
Some critics (Apple, 1979) suggest that
schools help students reproduce knowledge of a dominant social, economic
class, and not engage in producing for their own knowledge.
Further, many parents are concerned that a reorientation toward student
self-direction and personal efficacy will diminish the influence of home
and school and inadequately prepare students for the work force.
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.