This document discusses critical thinking and its importance. Critical thinking is exercising sound reasoning to understand complex issues and make informed decisions. It involves skills like analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information from multiple sources. Critical thinking plays an important role in the 21st century by supporting success, decision-making, curiosity, and learning. The document also provides examples of how technology like Photoshop, blogs, and webquests can promote critical thinking skills in students. It concludes that critical thinking encourages open-minded reflection and testing conclusions with evidence to solve complex problems.

1. CRITICAL THINKING
Taniesha Sturdavent
Miriam Smith
Austin Davis
Jessica Scohy

2. CRITICAL THINKING
• Critical thinking is exercising sound reasoning in understanding and
making complex choices by applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or
evaluating information gathered from observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, and communication.

3. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF CRITICAL
THINKING?
• To pick out theories and arguments
• To be able to communicate and justify
• To solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways
• Open-mindedness regarding divergent world views
• Self-confidence in one’s abilities to reason

4. ROLE IN 21ST CENTURY
• Plays the role of success and growth of thought processes, decision-
making, curiosity, and learning capabilities.

5. IMPLEMENTING TECHNOLOGY
• Photoshop: a student can take a picture and make changes to make a cartoon look real
• WebQuest: a student follows the directions of a webquest and learns more about the unit
plan
• Blogger: students interact with each other at school and at home through blogging websites
• Twitter: students interact and follow a twitter page made by their teacher for their class to
keep up to date on things revolving class and activities
• Arts & Bots: students’ arts and bots must be critically thought out in order to work properly

6. PROMOTING CRITICAL THINKING
WebQuest
• Being able to understand how to research for credible sources and apply them
• Putting different information together in order to generate an informed idea
• To be able to form an opinion and justify it
• Reflecting on the information learned in order to come to a conclusion

7. CONCLUSION
• Raises vital questions and problems
• Critical thinkers think open-mindedly by recognizing different assumptions, implications,
and practical consequences
• With critical thinking, conclusions are tested with relevant criteria and standards
• Communication is effective in figuring out solutions to complex problems

8. WORK CITED
"Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - P21." Partnership for 21st Century
Learning. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.
"Learning for the 21st Century." Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Web. 17
Nov. 2015.
"Our Concept and Definition of Critical Thinking." The Critical Thinking
Community. 2013. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.