Although engaging students in the learning process is a daunting task, it is necessary if we want to teach students thinking skills that will help them to be critical thinkers and independent learners. This issue of CDTL Brief on Engaging Students discusses the importance of engaging students in the process of teaching them thinking skills.
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| Teaching Students to Think: A Matter of Engaging Minds | ||
| Dr Lakshminarayanan Samavedham | ||
| Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | ||
| Thinking skills are valued in all fields. Due to my background in engineering, I will motivate the need for incorporating ways to help students acquire and develop thinking skills into our curriculum by highlighting the rapid changes in chemical engineering. Continue reading | ||
| Academic Culture Online | ||
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| For the past two years (AY 2004/2005 and AY 2005/2006), a small team of people has been working on an online 1-MC module (PLG2005 "Plagiarism. NUS") intended to introduce students to academic culture. The module is nearly finished. Continue reading | ||
| Thinking Skills: A Discipline-centred Approach | ||
| Associate Professor Anjam Kursheed | ||
| Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | ||
| Are thinking skills innate or acquired? If they are acquired, what is the most effective way of learning them? Should universities mount general purpose pedagogical courses aimed at teaching students to think creatively and critically? Continue reading | ||