Get the different sides of critical issues

Get the different sides of critical issues

Looking Back (Review of pre-requisite skills)

Identify the following statements if it is a Fact, or O if it is an Opinion.

Multiple Choice

1. The guava leaves are used for medicinal purposes, such as wound healing and stomach problems.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

2. Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

3. There is a science behind how face masks prevent coronavirus.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

4. Social distancing helps prevent the spread of any viruses like Covid19.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

5. Vlog is short for a video blog or video log; it is a type of blog content in a video format.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

6. Facebook is a better social media platform than Twitter.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

7. Covid19 started in 2019 in Wuhan China.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

8. Teachers should use social media in their lessons to get more students interested.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

9. Millennials prefer online games than outdoor games.

• Fact

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

10. Many teenagers’ present obsession with taking selfies shows they are most narcissistic generation.

• Fact

• Opinion

Brief Introduction (Discussion)

Now that you have learned the distinctions between facts and opinions, you are ready enough to learn how to manage different sides of an issue.

Getting the different sides of an issue is crucial for a sound judgment and attainment of the best resolution to a problem. In making sense of a problem, critical thinking plays a vital role in achieving sound decision-making.

Analysis of the Issue

Let us first determine what issues are considered critical. Critical issues

include social, moral, and economic issues affecting the lives of people within a society. It is considered a critical issue when it calls for prompt action or resolution to improve the condition of the affected target group or individuals.

In getting the different sides of critical issues, consider the five (5) questions below:

• What is the critical issue about?

• Who will get affected by this issue?

• Why is this issue critical?

• Does the problem or issue need to be addressed for immediate action?

• What are the consequences involved?

Useful techniques in getting the different sides of an issue

Getting the different sides of a critical issue has to be logical and organized. The use of different text types or development that show relationships like problem-solution, comparison, and contrast, cause-effect methods through concept mapping would help in achieving this goal.

In this lesson, the cause and effect method would be introduced. As the words suggest, cause and effect present the different causes and effects purposively exposing the deciding factors and circumstances, to lead one which actions to take or decisions to make.

Remember (Generalization)

• Getting the different sides of an issue is crucial for a sound judgment and attainment of the best resolution to a problem.

• Analyzing the critical issues is by exhausting what the critical issue is all about, who will be affected, the consequences, and the call for immediate action or attention of a particular issue.

• The useful techniques or methods of acquiring critical issues with the use of different text types like problem-solution, comparison and contrast, and cause-effect would help in processing or eliciting the different sides of an issue.