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
Visible Thinking Routine - See Think Wonder 🔗🤔📜
How to increase your powers of observation 🔗🤔📜
Using a forest setting to learn to carefully observe and question 🔗🤔📜
Visible Thinking Routine - Question Starts 🔗🤔📜
Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
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 🔗🤔📜
Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
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) 🔗🤔📜
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 🔗🤔
Interpret data
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 🔗🤔📜
Evaluate evidence and arguments
TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking 🔗🤔📜📽
Influence & Persuasion: Crash Course Media Literacy #6 📽
Quizlet - Facts vs. Opinions 🔗🤔
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 🔗🤔📜📽
Recognize and evaluate propositions
TED Ed: 5 Tips to improve your critical thinking 🔗🤔📜📽
Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
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 🔗🤔📜
Test generalizations and conclusions
A thought provoking video about racism in New York. Little Things are Big: Watch the Story 📽
Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
321 Bridge Thinking Routine 🔗🤔
Evaluate and manage risk
Anonymous Sources in Our Daily News 🔗🤔📜
Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
Visible Thinking Routine - Question Starts 🔗🤔
Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
Visible Thinking Routine - Circle of Viewpoints 🔗🤔📜
Develop contrary or opposing arguments
Take part in a debate, using resources from Debatabase 🔗🤔📜
BrainPop Video and Quiz - Debates 🔗🤔📜📽📽
Visible Thinking Routine - What Makes You Say That? 🔗🤔
Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
Identify obstacles and challenges
Building a Metacognitive Classroom 🔗🤔
Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
Identify trends and forecast possibilities
A great podcast for forward thinking - "Masters of Scale: Handcrafted with Airbnb's Brian Chesky" 📽
Troubleshoot systems and applications
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