A video highlighting ways in which to integrate differentiated instruction while exercising argumentation and critique within math lessons. [3:07]

Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the concept of empirical questions straight to your fingertips within this interactive lesson. [13:36]

First thing's first: what is media literacy? In our first episode, Jay breaks this question down and explains how we're going to use it to explore our media-saturated world. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate,...

Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our lives - along with some of the different approaches to media literacy that these...

You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a lot of processes that not super helpful for media literacy, but hopefully, with a little...

See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming. [5:40]

In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast is challenged to design and test a roller coaster with loops, hills, and U-turns. [4:21]

Positive problem solving is an essential factor to building resilience in our young children. Critical thinking, self-control, planning, persistence, and logical reasoning skills help kids solve problems and make appropriate decisions....

In this video, Paul Henne describes the ad hominem fallacy, which is an informal fallacy that arises when someone attacks the person making the argument rather than their argument. He also describes the four subtypes of this fallacy. [8:10]

In this Wireless Philosophy video, Paul Henne (Duke University) explains the difference between correlation and causation. [7:08]

In this video, Geoff Pynn follows up on his introduction to critical thinking by exploring how abductive arguments give us reason to believe their conclusions. Good abductive arguments don't guarantee their conclusions, but give us very...

Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.

This lesson will describe the role and four basic principles of critical thinking in psychology. The application and use of the experimental method and the six elements that make up the scientific method in psychology will be examined.

In a few minutes, with Code.org's simple drag-and-drop tutorials students can make their own Flappy game from any web browser or tablet, and share it instantly with friends. [1:33]

Jeannette M. Wing, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, discusses how, like reading writing and math, computational thinking skills will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. [1:05:58]

A discussion of the similarities and differences between Java and C++. The pros and cons of each language are demonstrated through example as well. [6:13]

Students learn how to solve an algebra word problem involving two bicycles passing each other. The video resource consists of an example with a detailed explanation.

Find out how Google street view engineers use computational thinking to solve problems. [3:44]

This teacher tutorial provides educators an overview of a lesson in graph paper computer programming without any use of computers. Clicking on the link leads to the full lesson plan. [1:07]

This one-hour introduction communicates to children the topic of computer science. Each additional video shows students demonstrating different concepts in computational thinking.

One of the thinking skills for the 21st century is that of critical thinking. This site defines what critical thinking is and explains why it is important in today's world.

Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. With each teen possessing a distinct STEM talent, the students work together to test...

In this video, Kelley will go over how to identify implicit premises in all sorts of arguments and discuss when it is and is not acceptable to leave a premise implicit. [3:04]

In this video, Julianne Chung explains the philosophical concepts of truth and validity before going on to illustrate how truth and falsity, as well as validity and invalidity, can appear in various combinations in an argument.