Resource
This resource came across in my email recently. Even though the source is not specifically an organization focused on education I think it might be useful in planning lessons/units for teachers/students.
Posts Tagged ‘critical thinking skills’
Visual Arts and Critical Thinking Skills
November 14, 2011How visual arts can build critical-thinking skills – Edutopia
Education in the visual arts can be an avenue for building students’ critical-thinking skills, writes blogger Andrew Miller, a National Faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education. Miller points to two examples of this, including one in which students at a California school created an art piece to symbolize a better representation of an atom for a chemistry project. Edutopia.org/Andrew Miller’s blog (11/2)
Andrew Miller (@betamiller on Twitter) is a National Faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education, an org that specializes in project-based curriculum, and a collaborator with Abeo School Change, committed to make powerful learning a reality for every student. He is also a regular blogger for Edutopia.
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