Critical thinking (CT) is key to any meaningful use of AI in education. In fact, CT matters with or without AI, but once AI ...

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As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and ...

Many thanks to Julie Colantoni, first-grade teacher at Memorial School in Medfield, MA, for sharing her story. You can learn more about the exciting happenings in her classroom on her blog. A few ...

As educators, we develop lesson plans with careful consideration and effort. When one works, we fall in love, hesitant to change it too much for fear that change might bring less student success. The ...

Do you want to integrate creative methods in your classroom and research? Design and hands-on making can be valuable to academic pursuits in all disciplines. We’re here to partner with faculty to ...

Would Teaching "Critical Thinking" Help Both Students and Politicians? By guest blogger, Dr. Charles Temple Elsewhere in the region, we asked teachers why training in critical thinking was important ...

Some learning spaces at St Catherine’s have shed the traditional classroom layout in favour of something more sophisticated and effective. During Year 9 humanities classes, as part of a program called ...

What is “design thinking,” and why does it belong in America’s classrooms? Actually, as cognitive scientist Lindsay Portnoy explains in this post, many teachers are already using design thinking but ...

The SchoolWide Lab middle school curriculum units are anchored in phenomena, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), and purposefully integrate Computational Thinking (CT). To date, ...