What Is Critical Thinking? A Simple Definition

by Terry Heick What does ‘critical thinking’ mean? Well, that depends on who you ask. For educators, as a term, critical thinking is similar to words like democracy, global, and organic: You hear people use them all the time, but no

Knowledge Domains For The 21st Century Student

by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t mean we’re all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor do we all become mindless social media addicts who spend our cognitive might tapping, swiping, and drooling on our smartphone

Merging Metacognition And Citizenship

by Terrell Heick Ed note: This post parallels our self-directed learning model. Why should someone learn? While Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and others have provided compelling arguments for what might be the goal of education, learning, and education are not one

A Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Graphic

by TeachThought Staff If you’re a TeachThought reader, you know that thought is at the core of our content–curiosity, critical thinking, self-direction, and play among other slivers of learning. This is especially true regarding teaching, learning, and technology. At the point where teaching,

Translation And Interpretation | English Form 5 & 6

Translation is a process by which ideas that are written in one language ar...

Writing Skills | English Form 5 & 6

Are the abilities that allow you to write effectively and concisely. A competent...

Reading Skills | English Form 5 & 6

Reading is the process of going through written information or piece of wor...

Speaking Skills | English Form 5 & 6

What is Speaking? SPEAKING SKILLS: Speaking is simply the act of talking wh...

Listening Skills | English Form 5 & 6

Listening is ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communi...

Word Formation | English Form 5 & 6

This is the field or branch of morphology which studies different principles or ...

Introduction To Language | English Form 5 & 6

Language is a symbol system based on pure or arbitrary  conventions…...

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Form Five and Form Six

Ecology

Ecology is the study of the interactions between living things, such as humans, ...

Evolution

EVOLUTION Evolution is  a change in the genetic composition of a population...

Genetics

Genetics is the study of heredity and variationHeredity- is the passage of chara...

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