Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Why Writing is Still Relevant in the Age of AI (2:59) Even with the rise of AI tools, writing remains essential for critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Cloud Services and Reinventing Essays (42:04) Cloud-based services offer students more flexibility and options for managing their writing projects.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

For example, instead of saying they took a speech class, they can break down the specific skills they learned or had to use, such as public speaking, critical thinking and research. It also allows learners to pause and restart their learning journey, providing flexibility that traditional pathways often lack.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For instance, play in early education reinforces the development of social-emotional skills and critical thinking. Its flexible, willingly-chosen and yes, fun. Some research has even suggested it has the ability to reduce socioeconomic inequality. But whats meant by play?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has ideas on how to incorporate giving into your STEM curriculum: Incorporating Monthly Giving Projects into STEM Curriculum: Inspiring the Next Generation of Philanthropists STEM equips students with critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovative skills vital for their future careers.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As educators struggle with the best way to teach critical thinking and problem solving, coding has proven to be an effective and flexible tool. Is it time to add ‘coding’ to the essential subjects taught at every school?

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APRIL 8, 2024

By understanding these varying styles, you’re able to adopt a more flexible approach to your education. Traditional high schools often prioritize rote learning and standardized testing, which can limit your ability to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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MARCH 17, 2015

By transferring knowledge, , leveraging what you do know, and allowing for flexible learning paths, you can develop the habits of mind that will make yourself comfortable with the new educational paradigm. Computer skills Critical thinking Education reform Teaching' Every day, there are new ways to use technology in education.

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JUNE 19, 2024

Such extensive resources empower them to conduct independent research and develop critical thinking skills essential for their future academic endeavors. This flexibility ensures they remain actively involved in their child’s education. Students can explore subjects more thoroughly through online libraries and databases.

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JUNE 20, 2024

It helps promote critical thinking about activities like money management. You can then compare savings accounts to a flexible piggy bank where they can easily get money from, but it earns less interest.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Critical Skills in the Age of AI Which skills is the natural next question. Power Skills, which include creativity, collaboration, resilience, leadership and critical thinking , make all other skills more effective. These skills have always been valuable, as anyone with a professional background can attest to.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Thinking Flexibly. Thinking about Thinking. Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision. .” Thinking Flexibly. ‘Thinking flexibly’ is inherent to many of the IB learner attitudes, especially cooperation, respect, and tolerance. Managing impulsivity.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The real question is whether the person is a lifelong learner — someone who can self-learn and adapt when the landscape shifts — and whether they possess the resilience, flexibility and agility to thrive in a world and industry that is constantly evolving. Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

In this kind of learning environment, where a student’s creativity and critical thinking skills are constantly challenged, John took some time to adjust. Instead, we take a more personalized approach that provides choices for what and how students learn to support their growth.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

These competencies include creativity and innovation, communication, critical thinking and problem-solving, citizenship, flexibility and adaptability, and resilience. For IPSD, these interdisciplinary skills are six core competencies that graduates need to succeed, regardless of the path a student takes after commencement.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs. Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart. Not unless it gets more flexible, argues author and former educator Simon Rodberg.

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MARCH 19, 2019

is pushed out to students in flexible twenty-minute sessions at a recommended pace of two-three per week. It automates the process (which saves everyone time) and encourages critical thinking while facilitating the provision of quality feedback. Lessons fit into most existing literacy programs. Everyone wins.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Creativity encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, iteration, collaboration and making deep connections in students’ learning material. How flexible were the classrooms before the pandemic? They already had student devices and an established method for digital transactions between home and the teacher.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

This shift in focus fosters adaptability and flexible thinking, employee skills that are crucial for organizations to thrive in today's dynamic business environment. For higher ed, this means fostering critical thinking and soft-skills development in students to ensure that they are prepared for the unknown challenges of tomorrow.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

There are a lot of shortkeys, but not much flexibility in the toolbar setup. Excel has more types of charts, more options for formatting those charts, and more flexibility to quickly change their layouts and styles. Sheets are a great tool to teach problem-solving or critical thinking. Education applications.

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MAY 24, 2017

Lesson plans are delivered via a granular combination of rigorous critical thinking activities, real-world problems, and interactive digital games that make implementing the curriculum easy and flexible for any type of classroom and fully supportive of a schoolwide goal of college and career readiness.

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CoderZ

JULY 10, 2023

With the growing demand for robotics and computer science education , it’s essential to equip ourselves with versatile tools that promote flexibility and adaptability in the classroom. In this article, we will explore how embracing flexibility and innovation can enhance your robotics and computer science classes.

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 25, 2025

The tournament improves on the book bracket trend by combining storytelling with history, science, and critical thinking. Plus, the format is flexible. This collection of hands-on basketball-themed STEM activities is perfect for engaging students in critical thinking, design challenges, and teamworkall with a sporty twist.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2016

Characters can be posed with flexibility at all joints, and adjusted for appearance and emotion. As a teacher, there’s a certain peace to finding a tool that is free, easy to use, relevant to most academic topics, supports critical thinking, and students will love. Each element can be resized, rotated, and repositioned.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 4, 2023

Figjam is a cool, flexible, fun, collaborative space for student projects, presentations, and collaborations. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is Figjam? Now is the time to sign up for Research Quest from the Natural History Museum of Utah.

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PCS Edventures

JANUARY 2, 2024

How can you create flexible learning opportunities with a self-directed STEM curriculum? Incorporating a STEM curriculum into your program is a natural way to engage learners and strengthen critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In this flexible learning environment, learners select an area of STEM to explore.

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STEM Education Works

APRIL 7, 2025

Its a flexible solution that supports learners at every level. Whether introducing coding basics or diving into more advanced skills, Ozobot helps students develop critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. This intuitive block-based coding platform grows with them.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You have to show students how [generative AI] is just a tool and let them know that this is not supposed to replace their own critical thinking, creativity and all these skills they need,” says Poth. This flexibility allows for adaptable AI integration while maintaining openness and transparency between instructors and learners.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 19, 2023

Research Quest Are you looking for engaging NGSS-aligned science lessons designed to improve critical thinking in your middle school students? I think my biggest piece of advice is to be flexible. But we learned during the pandemic that flexibility from everyone is key. Your day is never going to go as planned.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

With my fourth graders, I routinely used a popular game called Oregon Trail to teach not only westward expansion but about the problem solving and critical thinking employed by many early Americans. They are flexible. Maybe it was his parents’ influence but that didn’t matter.

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JULY 29, 2015

Certainly this is valuable information, but today’s lesson plans–like today’s lessons –demand less rote fill-in-the-blanks and more conceptualization, critical thinking, and collaboration. It’s not as scalable or flexible as I’d like.

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CTE Learning

APRIL 7, 2025

Freelancing is another avenue, providing flexibility in choosing clients and setting rates, along with exposure to the global market and diverse collaborations. Entrepreneurial individuals may opt to establish their own design businesses, offering autonomy over projects, clients, and schedules.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 28, 2024

This level of flexibility ensures that learning isn’t just confined to the classroom but can happen whether they’re on the bus, taking a walk, exercising, or doing their chores. Boosts Critical Thinking Skills Many podcasts talk about complex concepts and have diverse viewpoints.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Develops Logic, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Playing chess requires a lot of “if-then” logical analysis and “what-if” scenarios, all necessary ingredients for developing logical and critical thinking. Teaches Flexibility and How to Stay Calm Under Pressure. Some Academic and SEL Benefits of Chess.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Compound measure calculation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills are vital for success when addressing this topic. Such one-to-one or small-group lessons give teachers even more flexibility to engage their students. To earn the highest marks, students must have a firm grasp on fraction and decimal calculations.

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CTE Learning

APRIL 10, 2025

This ensures complete flexibility and mobility for all his learners. The Certified Web Animator Certificate teaches not only animation but also music, sound effects, audio engineering, storyboarding, ethics, critical thinking, and math in the workplace. What do you like about this comprehensive approach to preparing learners?

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Career in STEM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Critical Thinking. The skill of critical thinking is a necessity is countless fields – this is especially so with STEM fields! STEM jobs like job analysis and operations resource analysis are just two examples of the many positions that need critical thinking. Cognitive Flexibility. Creativity.

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