If #education primarily focuses on knowledge building, no wonder #students are more concerned about regurgitating the information to get the grade rather than learning the actual value of the education: process to gain knowledge–hashtag#criticalthinking.
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While #college graduation rates have steadily improved and remained stagnant last few years due to #COVID, a deeper look into the data will show that more progress needs to be made to close the #studentsuccess gap for the #underservedcommunities.
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Emphasizing #students complete short-term #tasks as means for building #studentsuccess would shift their focus from the grade to the #effort needed to achieve it.
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Open-note exam reinforces #criticalthinking having to gather material from different sources to answer questions–that's how the #realworld works.
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We often underestimate #k12 and #highered students' critical thinking skills because we don't provide them enough opportunities to show us.
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True interest is revealed when students are willing to overcome their less procedural knowledge competency to reach their goals. I always applaud any #engineering#students in my class who admit they are not good at #math.
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The first step in helping #students develop agency over their #learning is to ensure #coursework explicitly adds #value and is #relevant to their #reallife#careergoals - explain the why - "understand why they're learning what they're learning." https://t.co/K39nSpnm80
In the world of "Google it," "ask #chatgpt," or riding the inevitable #ai tsunami to get what we need in mere milliseconds (not necessarily more accurately), it's easy to lose the #criticalthinkingskills that help us to come up wit…https://t.co/aMBecFtZDk https://t.co/RRyMkiOdZY