Approaches to Learning Toolkit
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  • KEY
  • Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems
  • Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
  • Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
  • Interpret data
  • Evaluate evidence and arguments
  • Recognize and evaluate propositions
  • Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
  • Test generalizations and conclusions
  • Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
  • Evaluate and manage risk
  • Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
  • Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
  • Develop contrary or opposing arguments
  • Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
  • Identify obstacles and challenges
  • Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
  • Identify trends and forecast possibilities
  • Troubleshoot systems and applications

Thinking - Critical

Critical thinking that demonstrates a synthesis of ideas and goes beyond personal experience. It also inspires thinking in others that leads to action including new practice and deeper understanding.

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Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems

Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument

Recognize unstated assumptions and bias

Interpret data

Evaluate evidence and arguments

Recognize and evaluate propositions

Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations

Test generalizations and conclusions

Revise understanding based on new information and evidence

Evaluate and manage risk

Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions

Consider ideas from multiple perspectives

Develop contrary or opposing arguments

Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions

Identify obstacles and challenges

Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues

Identify trends and forecast possibilities

Troubleshoot systems and applications

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Visible Thinking Routine - See Think Wonder
How to increase your powers of observation
Using a forest setting to learn to carefully observe and question
How to observe people
Visible Thinking Routine - Question Starts
BrainPop Video and Quiz on Organizing your thoughts
Visible Thinking Routine - What Makes You Say That?
Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions
Visible Thinking Routine - Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate
Planning Research for Influencing
Reading Power - Adrienne Gear
Test yourself for hidden bias
Visible Thinking Routine - Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate
Confirmation and Other Biases
Street Calculus
Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions
Weed Out Propaganda - Poster and Activity (Newseum)
Evidence: Do the facts hold up? - activity which has students check accuracy in a news article (Newseum)
Source: Can I Trust the Creator? Activity (Newseum)
Video: Defining Confirmation Bias
Media Literacy Maven Video: Confirmation Bias
Influence & Persuasion: Crash Course Media Literacy #6
Online Advertising: Crash Course Media Literacy #7
Confronting Confirmation Bias
Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys: Crash Course Statistics #10
24 Cognitive Biases That Are Warping Your Perception of Reality
TED Ed: How to spot a misleading graph
Weed Out Propaganda - Poster and Activity (Newseum)
Have students interpret data from the World Health Organisation
Creating Killer Facts and Graphics
Planning Research for Influencing
TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking
Influence & Persuasion: Crash Course Media Literacy #6
Evidence: Do the facts hold up - activity which has students check accuracy in a news article (Newseum)
Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions
C.A.R.S. Checklist
TED Ed: Why facts don't convince people (and what you can do about it)
TED Ed: Not all scientific studies are created equal - David H. Schwartz
TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking
Visible Thinking Routine - Explanation Game
TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking
What Makes You Say That? - The Artful Thinking Palette
Healthy Skepticism: Teaching Students to Use Claim Testers
A thought provoking video about racism in New York. Little Things are Big: Watch the Story
321 Bridge Thinking Routine
Anonymous Sources in Our Daily News
Visible Thinking Routine - Question Starts
Facing History & Ourselves - The curriculum focusses on tackling stereotypes and understanding a range of views and opinions. Their curriculum covers difficult issues including the Holocaust and Racism issues in America
Visible Thinking Routine - Circle of Viewpoints
Newspaper Map
Take part in a debate, using resources from Debatabase
BrainPop Video and Quiz - Debates
Facing History: Barometer
Visible Thinking Routine - What Makes You Say That?
MYP Design Cycle!
Building a Metacognitive Classroom
Phet Simulations
A great podcast for forward thinking - "Masters of Scale: Handcrafted with Airbnb's Brian Chesky"
Coding is a great way to teach, as they will have to debug and learn by making mistakes. Students will take part in coding through the Hour of Code (and also through ICT, Robotics and Design sessions)