Course Topic: Critical Thinking
Critical thinking and problem-solving represent two abilities or competencies for innovation in the 21st century.
Developing critical thinking means questioning, identifying different points of view, and evaluating arguments made by others.
So, contrary to widespread belief, critical thinking can be learned and implemented in any classroom to develop students’ thinking skills for comprehensive and autonomous learning.
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Gain practical knowledge and strategies for using AI tools such as Chat GPT for language practice. Learn the best practices for implementing AI in the classroom to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.
Integrating AI in the Classroom With Critical Thinking
Gain the knowledge and skills to embrace your role in an AI-driven world and utilize AI tools to enhance student learning. Learn practical strategies for identifying struggling students, creating intelligent tutoring systems, and automating tasks like grading.
The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration in Schools
Acquire an understanding of the '4C's' and acknowledge their significance as essential life skills. Explore methods for integrating these skills into both the curriculum and the school environment.
ChatGPT and Basic AI Tools
Explore the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence in education to empower teachers to use basic AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to enhance teaching and learning. Learn how to use AI tools to decrease the workload.
Introduction to the Finnish Education Model
Gain a better understanding of Finland’s progressive style of teaching and practical methods. Explore various student-centered approaches that make teaching and learning more holistic.
Soft Skills for Strong Teachers
Deepen your understanding of the notion of soft skills and reflect on your own leadership, creativity, and communication abilities, among others. Learn how to incorporate the transmission of those skills into every facet of education.
Digital Tools for Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Critical Thinking (4Cs)
Acquire the knowledge, the know-how, and the confidence to insert the 4Cs skills into the curriculum and school environment. Learn to design practical activities using ICT resources, which are more efficient at developing the 4Cs in students.
Effective Pedagogies for 21st-Century Learning
Learn how to embrace new pedagogical practices to effectively promote the acquisition of soft skills in mainstream education. Explore practical know-how on four fundamental student-centered approaches.
Project-Based Learning (PBL): Make Students’ Learning Real and Effective!
Discover Project-Based Learning and an array of strategies to integrate into the curriculum using the latest tools and techniques. Create and carry out your own PBL project to boost student engagement and assure long-lasting retention of knowledge.
Discover the 7Cs: Learning for Life (and Work) in the 21st Century
Acquire knowledge on how to innovate school curricula by gaining a systematic understanding of 7 of the most important soft skills in the 21st century as a response to migration and rapid technological development.
Global Education and Critical Media Literacy: Essential Elements in Contemporary Teaching
Gain a practical understanding of the basic principles of Global Education and learn to design educational activities based on its pillars.
Innovative Educational Leadership: Your Soft Skills Toolkit
Engage in a variety of activities and discussions aimed at developing leadership skills, including communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and change management.
Visual Arts as a Tool for Communication and Learning
Explore the impact of visual communication in today's digital media landscape for teaching and storytelling. Learn how to leverage visual communication and media literacy to cultivate critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity.
Coding and Robotics Made Easy
Learn the fundamentals of coding and robotics, and develop the skills necessary to use these tools in the classroom in a fun and interesting manner. Learn how to bridge the gap between software and hardware.
Project-Based Learning for Primary School
Deepen your knowledge about PBL. Discover which tools are best for the students, how to effectively evaluate their learning, and how to be a good mentor in order to promote critical thinking, autonomy, collaboration, and other 21st-century skills.
AI and the 6Cs for Future-Ready Teaching
Explore AI tools that enhance teaching and learning in the context of the 6Cs. Create a collaborative, inclusive, and digitally-enhanced learning environment.
Boosting Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Acquire a new conception of the mechanisms of creative thinking and discover new strategies to nurture your immagination, improve creativity, and generate new ideas.
Case-Based Learning (CBL)
Learn to apply Case-Based Learning in your classrooms and school subjects, as well as in interdisciplinary projects to increase students’ curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving, and promote an active learning environment.
Digital Media Literacy: Essential Skills for the Digital Age
Learn how to evaluate the credibility and quality of media products, besides becoming a responsible creator thereof and developing the ability to pass content on to students.
Discovering the Best Educational Systems from Europe and the World
Explore the particularities of different educational systems around the world and recent educational reforms. Discover how to use new thinking routines to evaluate the assigned educational system, perceive its complexity, and establish connections.
Gamifying the Classroom with Minecraft, Gamebooks, and Treasure Hunts
Discover game-based learning and its benefits and explore three powerful tools for gamification: Minecraft, gamebooks and interactive fiction, and treasure hunts.
Green Skills in Education: Towards a 2050 Zero Emission Society
Explore the role of education in promoting green skills and sustainability. Learn how to incorporate green skills into your teaching, using design thinking and practical strategies to prepare students for the future.
Mastering Project, Task, Problem, and Competency-Based Learning
Develop an understanding of project-based, thinking-based, problem-based, and competency-based learning approaches. Learn to seamlessly integrate these methods into teaching practices, empowering students with practical skills.
Math + Games x Innovation = Fun²
Learn how to teach mathematics in a practical and fun way to captivate the students with the beauty and functionality of numbers. Discover how to use games, role play, and interactive activities that go far beyond the textbook.
Museum-Based Learning in Split
Engage in experiential learning at museums, science centers, and art galleries, fostering conceptual understanding. Embrace active learning and experience Croatian culture and heritage, enhancing the knowledge and promoting sustainability.
Primary Students and Creative Competence: Thriving in the Unknown
Learn how to prepare students for revolutionizing careers and how to develop and evaluate children’s abilities and attitudes in a positive, motivating school environment.
Project-Based Learning for Pre-school
Discover PBL through inspiring examples and learn how to incorporate it into your teaching. Identify tools for preschool students and become a mentor promoting problem-solving, critical thinking, autonomy, collaboration, and 21st-century skills.
Visible Thinking: Discover the Power of Thinking Routines
Discover the benefits of visible thinking and its ability to foster deep learning through the introduction of various thinking routines applicable in the classroom. Support students in becoming problem-solvers, critical thinkers, and independent learners.
4Cs Education With AI Tools and Storytelling Techniques
Discover how to blend AI tools with education to enhance soft skills among students. Gain practical AI tool insights and storytelling skills to transform your teaching and inspire students across all subjects, preparing them for a future intertwined with AI.
Active Citizenship: Navigating News and Fostering Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Learn how to navigate the news with a critical thinking approach and recognize biases in journalism. Confidently read and understand news, while implementing classroom activities to engage students in current topics.
Arduino for STEAM: Hands-On Learning in the Digital Age
Navigate the challenges of tomorrow's complex educational landscape, utilizing Arduino to equip yourselves with valuable tools and knowledge, and foster essential skills like problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Berlin’s Museums: An Experiential Learning Path
Acquire skills to seamlessly integrate Berlin’s museums into formal settings, enhancing both curricular and extracurricular learning experiences.
Classroom Debates: Turn Them Into an Effective Teaching Tool
Develop an understanding of the numerous benefits of implementing debates in your curriculum. Use debates as a tool to develop critical thinking, acquire crucial research skills, foster appreciation for diverse views, and improve engagement.
Critical Thinking for All Subjects and Life
Implement strategies to assist students in advancing from lower-level cognitive tasks to higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. Teach students to employ metacognitive strategies to monitor and evaluate their understanding and progress.
Design Thinking for Educators
Learn about a new method of problem-solving and how to apply it in the classroom to push the students to think outside the box when problems arise.
Humanities and STEAM Integration: A Digital Approach to Multidisciplinary Learning
Discover the huge potential of Digital Humanities in order to foster 21st-century skills. Create classroom activities that stimulate cross-disciplinary dialogue.
ICT Basic Tools for Gamification and 21st Century Skills
Gain hands-on experience with various apps and programs to integrate them into teaching. Learn to create interactive lessons that will foster 21st-century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
Interest-Based Learning: Key Strategies to Motivate Your Students
Discover how to implement an interest-based approach in the classroom, how to integrate curriculum standards into study material, and how to associate them with different subjects.
Teaching European Citizenship in the Classroom
Discover the values and principles of each EU institution to integrate them in the classroom and school activities. Develop critical thinking and civic skills to promote a sense of European Citizenship and identity in the school community.
Value-Based Learning: Democracy and Civic Responsibility in the Classroom
Help students understand the world critically, making your schools more inclusive, culturally aware, and socially responsible. Activate students as resources of learning for one another to foster values such as inclusion and respect.
Working in Groups: From Cooperation to Democracy
Explore various strategies and techniques of group work inspired by the founders of contemporary pedagogy. Discover the effectiveness of cooperative education in bringing students closer to democracy through collaborative efforts with their peers.