The Global LensTools to Promote Deep Thinkingon Big Issues

Mark SchultePulitzer Center

Dylan Wiliam’s keynote

• Teachers create the learning? (NO)• Students create the learning? (NO)• A middle ground. Teachers should engineer a

learning environment by nurturing disciplinary habits of mind.

Our team

5-minute video?

Pulitzer Center work

Pulitzer Center work

Pulitzer Center work

What’s useful here and how might we teach it?

• Sense-maker, organizer of information• Making judgments about what is important to

know• Telling the story artfully• Inviting us into the lives of others far different

from us• Using media strategically• A voice for the voiceless

Making Thinking Visible

Repeatedly using simple structures called thinking routines to foster a classroom culture of deep learning around important concepts and topics

Core Thinking Routines

I used to think… Now I think…A routine for reflecting on how and why our thinking has changed

See Think WonderA routine for exploring works of art and other interesting things

Our mission statement

Unlike skills or content learning, a disposition toward quality engagement with journalism is best learned through “enculturation”--that is, by experiencing a learning environment permeated by quality journalism habits of mind. In these environments, quality engagement with journalism is part of “the way we do things here,” modeled by adults, and infused in daily thinking routines (short, stepwise procedures that help students think deeply about something).

Thinking routines for journalism

The 3 Ys 1. Why might this [topic, question] matter to

me?

2. Why might it matter to people around me [family, friends, city, nation]?

3. Why might it matter to the world?

What’s useful here and how might we teach it?

• Sense-maker, organizer of information• Making judgments about what is important

to know: The Three Whys• Telling the story artfully• Inviting us into the lives of others far different

from us• Using media strategically• A voice for the voiceless

Thinking routines for journalism

Beauty and Truth1. Do you see beauty in this {image or text}?

2. Do you see truth in this {image or text}?

3. How might beauty help us find more truth?

4. How might truth help us find more beauty?

What’s useful here and how might we teach it?

• Sense-maker, organizer of information• Making judgments about what is important to

know: The Three Whys• Telling the story artfully: Beauty and Truth• Inviting us into the lives of others far different

from us• Using media strategically• A voice for the voiceless

Thinking routines for journalism

How Else and Why?1. What is being said? 2. How else might the journalist say this? Why? 3. How else might I say this? Why?4. (Repeat question)

What’s useful here and how might we teach it?

• Sense-maker, organizer of information• Making judgments about what is important to

know: The Three Whys• Telling the story artfully: Beauty and Truth• Inviting us into the lives of others far different

from us• Using media strategically: How Else and Why?• A voice for the voiceless

Thinking routines for journalism

Step Inside and Back

Step Inside: In your best guess: What might this person know, believe, care about, and why?

Step back: What made you say so? What else do you need to learn?

What’s useful here and how might we teach it?

• Sense-maker, organizer of information• Making judgments about what is important to

know: The Three Whys• Telling the story artfully: Beauty and Truth• Inviting us into the lives of others far

different from us: Step Inside and Back• Using media strategically: How Else and Why?• A voice for the voiceless

Thinking routines for journalism

Before the Story / Behind the Story In Front of the Story

What came before the story? (How did the journalist come to be in that place, and what did it take to get there?)What is behind the story? (What larger narrative is the story contributing to?)Who is in front of the story? (Who is the intended viewer?)

What’s useful here and how might we teach it?

• Sense-maker, organizer of information: Before the Story

• Making judgments about what is important to know: The Three Whys

• Telling the story artfully: Beauty and Truth• Inviting us into the lives of others far different from

us: Step Inside and Back, Before the Story• Using media strategically: How Else and Why?, Before

the Story• A voice for the voiceless: Before the Story

Reflections

Resources

• Pulitzer Center’s journalism projects: pulitzercenter.org

• Pulitzer Center’s lesson builder: pulitzercenter.org/builder

• Project Zero’s thinking routines: visiblethinkingpz.org