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Can Technology Help My Students Think?
Critical thinking in an age of digital convenience: just a contradiction or a productive coexistence? SMART Technologies CEO Nancy Knowlton helps us answer some of the common dilemmas of teaching...
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Thinking about Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is not a discrete skill that you should teach separately from other school subjects for “half an hour every Wednesday afternoon”, says Courtney Cazden, a Harvard professor of...
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Having a Plan
Find out how one research study is helping Normal (Technical) teachers plan and design a better curriculum for their students Much has been said about Singapore’s lowest stream – the Normal (Technical)...
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Fostering Critical Thinking through Philosophy for Children in Primary School
Research shows how teaching critical thinking improves reasoning skills and performance in one Singapore primary school. The Philosophy for Children (P4C) Programme was developed in the late-1960s by...
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UbD or Not?
During the end-of-year semester break last year, 12 educators from the North Zone spent 11 days traversing across 4 American states in 3 cars. Their mission was to see how schools in the United States...
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Lights Up!
Seng Kang Primary teachers show us how structured play can be more than fun and games. How did Benjamin Franklin discover that lightning was electricity? Or Thomas Edison invent the light bulb? Whether...
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Strategic Reading with Habits of Mind
What do you do when your students don’t understand what they’re reading? For Changkat Primary’s Suzanne Chia, it’s all about finding the right strategy. For most of us, understanding text seems to be...
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Education for Thinking
By Deanna Kuhn (2005), Harvard University Press, ISBN: 0-674-01906-7, 209 pp. A lot has been said about teaching thinking skills. In fact, terms like “innovation” and “independent learning” have been...
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Training the Will
By Fernando Corominas (1999), Edificio Palabras, ISBN:84-8239-367-7, 232 pp. In a recent seminar entitled, “Bringing up children with personality”, I came across the book Training the Will by Fernando...
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