Critical Thinking In Middle/High School...Are Your Kids Ready!

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of critical thinking in education and its inconsistent integration into middle and high school curricula in light of future job market changes due to AI and robotics.

By 2050 almost half the jobs that we see today will be replaced by AI and Robotics. Are our kids ready or will the percentage be even higher? Critical thinking has long been recognized as a cornerstone of intellectual development, yet its integration into formal education—particularly as a central pillar of middle and high school curricula—remains inconsistent worldwide. School districts will point to the occasional training teachers go through as proof. They may even be able to point to the sporadic display of fish-bone diagrams in a classroom or displayed on a “beloved by admin” anchor chart. Many school districts are even paying for programs like HMH that does a good job of integrating critical thinking, however, it is left up to the teacher to implement, and we know that most teachers don’t have time.

People in this episode

Hosts: Sue Gilenson, Marc Gilenson

Topics covered

• critical thinking
• education
• AI
• robotics
• curriculum development
• middle school
• high school

Keywords

• critical thinking
• education
• AI
• robotics
• curriculum
• middle school
• high school
• teacher training
• intellectual development

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Organizations: HMH

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