Every employer would like an employee who is a good problem solver. But in a world that increasingly puts an emphasis on technical skills, how important is thinking on your feet? More important than ...

As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

How to improve critical thinking using educational technology. In G. Kennedy, M. Keppell, C. McNaught & T. Petrovic (Eds.), Meeting at the Crossroads: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the ...

Students participate in a computer science class at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall. Photo provided by UNO. The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) STEM TRAIL Center was awarded a ...

Achievement discrepancies among U.S. students remain persistent and troubling–despite decades of targeted interventions and whole-school improvement programs. To make real gains, teachers need to ...

AI makes it easier than ever to lean on technology to do our thinking and some research says it may even be making us dumber. However, researchers have found that studying philosophy may help sharpen ...

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024’s most-read and most-loved stories. On the 2nd Day of Edtech, our story focuses on critical thinking. Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

When I first began focusing on the development of student critical thinking skills in the early 1990s, I discussed ideas for a research project with the partner of a CPA firm. I recall being quite ...

Imagine you’ve been struggling with your mental health, and you’re thinking about researching local therapists. But then you watch a video on social media made by someone who claims they fixed this ...

Leaders who decry the demise of critical thinking often fail to nurture atmospheres that encourage it or even model it ...