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Apps to help enhance young learners critical thinking skills

Apps to help enhance young learners critical thinking skills | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Critical thinking is a key skill in today's learning. In a digitally focused world replete with amateurish content and fake news, the ability to critically assess propositions and make informed decisions becomes essential to learners' cognitive and intellectual well-being ..."

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Eight good Android apps to enhance students' critical thinking skills

Eight good Android apps to enhance students' critical thinking skills | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"After posting about iPad critical thinking apps, here is another list for Android users.  We have included what we think are 8 of the popular Android apps in Google Play App Store based on positive reviews and ratings ..."

  1. Logic Master
  2. Kids Brain Trainer
  3. Skillz
  4. Brain Games
  5. Brain It On
  6. Can You Escape
  7. Flow Free
  8. Unblock Me
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iPad apps to develop students' critical thinking skills

iPad apps to develop students' critical thinking skills | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Critical thinking is a metacognitive skill, or what is generally known as 'thinking about thinking' (Howard et al. 2014). Critical thinking is a general competence that comprises several sub-skills (e.g., inferencing, deducing, interpreting, synthesizing, conceptualizing, evaluating, creating, and analyzing) ..."

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Cool tool | Zinc

Cool tool | Zinc | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Zinc equips middle and high school students with critical reading and thinking skills, and uses fresh content and gaming elements to ensure that students enjoy the literacy-growth process. The program has three components: reading, vocabulary and data ..." 

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What teens are learning from ‘Serial’ and other podcasts

What teens are learning from ‘Serial’ and other podcasts | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The wildly popular podcast "Serial" has found relevance in high school classrooms as a way to improve listening and critical thinking skills ..."

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Using “deep learning” to foster “deeper learning”

Using “deep learning” to foster “deeper learning” | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"When we teach students, the hope is that they will use their knowledge for the rest of their lives. However, this isn’t always the case. In more recent years, there’s been a higher focus on what’s called “deep learning” ..." 

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Games for building critical thinking skills

Games for building critical thinking skills | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Games that create reflective, independent thinkers. Explore this Games for Building Critical Thinking Skills Top Picks list of 30 tools curated by Common Sense Education editors to find relevant and engaging edtech solutions for your classroom ..."

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Develop critical thinking skills with Kialo

Develop critical thinking skills with Kialo | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Kialo is a wonderful tool for developing critical thinking skills and to develop students’ abilities to look at and explore multiple perspectives of complex issues in a clear and logical way ..."

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How instructors can leverage the online world to sharpen college students' critical thinking skills - eCampus News

How instructors can leverage the online world to sharpen college students' critical thinking skills - eCampus News | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In a 24 hour news cycle, today’s connected students must develop better critical thinking skills to be smart consumers of information ..."

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Twenty things educators need to know about digital literacy skills

Twenty things educators need to know about digital literacy skills | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Widely understood to be essential to success in the workplace and modern life, digital literacy is beginning to emerge as a necessary component of curriculum ..."

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Anne-Maree Johnson's curator insight, July 29, 2014 6:51 PM

What does the term "digitally literate" mean? This article gices some prompts about what digital literacy is- and what it isn't.

Kristen McDaniel's curator insight, August 4, 2014 11:15 AM

I really enjoyed this article on "do's" and "don'ts" for empowering students in digital literacy techniques.  I think we forget - this is where our students shine. The article points out that today's undergraduates have NEVER known life without the internet.  How do we use that to help our students learn more?

Ness Crouch's curator insight, April 8, 2015 8:37 PM

Digital Literacy is becoming more important in learning. The curriculum today requires teachers to use digital tools. Please read this interesting take on digital literacies.