As a nation of tinkerers, we often lack the patience to get the questions right, consumed as we are with doing something, anything when faced with a problem.
I love the adage, "If I ask you what time it is don't tell me how the watch works." And I confess that I am as guilty as any wine expert for launching...
For the coming year, rather than short-term resolutions, I'm issuing an ongoing challenge that is at once both personal and political. Despite much ev...
Since every educator pays at least lip service to the idea that critical thinking is an admirable educational goal, it should be possible to nudge at least some schools and some school districts in the direction of revising the school day to include, in addition to subject matter, some genuine thinking.
I have a simple, doable suggestion to make with regard to radically reimagining the education of children. Let's let our children actually think for 45 minutes a day.
Earlier in the year, I put a stake in the ground about Bing's stance vis-à-vis Critical Thinking. Simply put, we are in favor of Internet literacy ...
Test prep drilling "cheats" young learners of the education they need in order to be well informed and active citizens of our society.
These are interesting and difficult times for all Americans, though the predicament of our Republican brothers and sisters bears special reflection.
In the West, we believe that when someone moves a disagreement from the issue to a personal attack, it is because their case is weak. But can we make that assumption with other cultures?
The following summarizes the author's comments at a round table this week to launch UNESCO's World Report "Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercu...
We have a real problem with education in this nation of ours, and it goes far beyond the prohibition to write more or less than five paragraphs in your essay.
All of the classes I teach at the two community colleges where I am employed are writing classes. I try to make my courses more than just a series of how-to sessions about comma placement -- I inject the concept of critical thinking.
Everyone seems to have a strongly held point of view without much evident interest in learning or working toward some common resolution of our differences. It would seem collaboration is fast becoming extinct.
Given the facts on the ground, our President's current attempts to make all education standards uniform negates the essence of what makes this country what it is: diverse.
Internet literacy issues aren't new, but the goal of the Northwest Council for Computer Education's conference is to help teachers on the front lines and raise awareness of the issue.
One of our political parties now embraces that what one believes is more important than what one knows, and is where critical thought has been banished and"facts" are founded in belief.
I created a classroom environment that didn't merely tolerate differences of opinion, it encouraged it! The students knew they could bring up topics that were most important to them.
Like Guttenberg's printing press, the Internet has created radically new opportunities and systems that have put us at the beginning of a seismic cultural shift and yet, something is terribly wrong.
You change the oil in your car every 3,000 miles and call it maintenance. But how many miles has your mind clocked? Don't you think maybe it's time for a tune-up?
