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Critical Thinking: From Nest to Net
The document discusses critical thinking, defining it as a disciplined process of analyzing and evaluating information to guide beliefs and actions, emphasizing its importance in both personal and professional life. It identifies barriers to critical thinking and suggests teaching strategies that integrate technology to enhance learning experiences. By using technology, students can engage in collaborative and active learning while developing essential critical thinking skills.
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Critical Thinking: From Nest to Net
- 2. DefinitionDefinition Elder (2007) definescritical thinking as ‘self-guided, self- disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.’ Scriven & Paul (1987), “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.”
- 3. Why do you thinkthat? What does this mean? What does the evidence imply? How good is our evidence? How did you come to the interpretation? Do we have our facts right?
- 4. Why is criticalthinking important toWhy is critical thinking important to students?students? In Personal Life ◦ Avoid making irrational decisions from ignorance ◦ Make better decision from verified information ◦ Free one from unexamined assumptions, beliefs, and biasness ◦ Be a better informed citizen and voter In Professional Life ◦ Be a better problem-solver ◦ Better analyze information and draw appropriate conclusions ◦ Communicate a situation logically ◦ Make good decisions (based on data, not feelings)
- 5. Thinking is thehardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it. (Henry Ford) Noteworthy Quote
- 6. Common Barriers for CriticalThinking Biasness Close- mindedness Peer Pressure Distrust of reason Stereotyping Egocentrism Rationalization Fear of Change Self- deception Wishful Thinking Overpowering emotions Short -term thinking Selective perception Poor reading Skills Poor listening skills Lack of relevant information Lack of interest
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- 8. To teachcritically, teachers must abandon mother robin teaching To learn how to think critically, students must learn to shift to use reasoning as a pervasive tool of learning Integration of Technology can empower the students, making them autonomous learners Don’t Be a Mother Robin Teacher When we teach in "mother robin" fashion — mentally chewing up everything for our students so we can put it into their intellectual beaks to swallow…
- 9. Integrating TechnologyIntegrating Technology Bain(2013), ‘ideally, computers can help us foster the accomplishment of the highest learning objectives we have for our students’. Chinnery (2014), “If you have stable and predictable access, the Internet provides a virtual goldmine of activities.”
- 10. Why IntegratingWhy Integrating Technology?Technology? Social Learning Student Centered Content Empowered Approach Collaborative Learning Personal Learning Network Active Engagement Frequent Feedback Connection toReal- world Experts Creativity Cross-cultural Understanding Development of interpersonal Skills Diversity of Perceptions Make Learning Fun Development of Interpersonal Skills Making Teaching Meaningful Making Learning Significant
- 11. The Internet asTheInternet as TutorTutor
- 12. Remembering & Understanding •high-qualitypresentations or lectures •passionate experts and speakers •thought-provoking ideas •Interesting discussions •facilitating connection and communication •identifying problems •Offering solutions
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- 18. Applying • feedback istruly instant • peer editing. • peer-to-peer discussion • better collaboration • Ease of Corporate Communication • Variety of Information to Share
- 20. Analyzing & Evaluation DebatingForums •generate ideas on debating forums •state your case, prove your position with supporting details •refute opposing arguments with facts and evidences •interpret results and draw conclusions Speech & Text Corpora •offers opportunity for language analysis •provides authentic language samples •Has customize search engines
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- 22. Creating Digital Stories •empower studentsto be confident communicators •reach deeper understanding in all areas of the curriculum •cater all learning styles Podcasting •enhances listening skills and speaking skills •aims at delivering information to students •promotes a self-directed learning Blogging •combines technology and writing •gain a deeper understanding of content •sharing ideas and information relevant to their topics •opportunity to share their opinions
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- 32. References: • Chinnery, G.M. (2014). Call Me… May be: A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT. Retrieved from http://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/52_1_3_chinnery.pdf on 02/03/16 • Reasons for Technology Integration in Education (2013) http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/290- reasons-tech-in-education on 03/03/16 • “The Art of Redesigning Instruction” (excerpt) http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-art-of-redesigning- instruction/520 accessed on 04/03/16 • Why Do We Need Technology Integration? (2007) retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/technology- integration-guide-importance on 03/03/16 • Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: the reasons are many (2008) retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/technology-integration-introduction on 03/03/16