Thinking Skills
Thinking Skills and Critical Thinking
A teacher who only transfers content produces students who can recite. A teacher who builds thinking skills produces students who can question, analyze, and create.
Kolb’s experiential definition of learning, and the family of terms: critical thinking, reflection, metacognition, transfer, lateral thinking
Bayer’s two dimensions of mental operations and frame of mind, Norris on critical spirit, and authentic examples from news and research
Acting like a teacher, students as questioners, critical reading, riddles, classification games, and finding problems
Dale’s Cone of Learning, the doing-observing-abstracting cycle, and how inquiry develops thinking
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