Critical Thinking Chapter 4-445

Supporting Students Critical Thinking

By Ripley McNab & Vanessa Mann

Class Discussion

Do you use critical thinking skills in your everyday life? How so?

Multiple Choice

What is critical thinking?

• Making quick decisions without thinking deeply

• Expressing personal opinions without evidence or reasoning.

• Thinking carefully about information to make good decisions and explain your reasoning.

• Agreeing with others without asking questions.

Multiple Choice

What are the three competencies of higher order skills from Bloom's Taxonomy?

• Knowledge, comprehension, & application.

• Critical thinking, problem solving, & creativity.

• Reasoning, reflections, & synthesis.

• Analysis, synthesis, & evaluation.

​Class Discussion

What roles do technology play in critical thinking?

Multiple Choice

When using technology, which is not one of the things that critical thinking allows us to do?

• Judge the credibility of sources.

• Assume all digital information is accurate and unbiased.

• Identify conclusions, reasons, and assumptions.

• Develop and defend a position on an issue.

Poll

In order to teach critical thinking skills that are supported by technology in culturally responsive ways teachers should:

• Use the same technology tools and examples for every student.

• Rely on overused digital tools.

• Avoid generalization and recognizing important cultural features of critical thinking.

• Assume that all students are already familiar with the required technology.

​Class Discussion

In what ways is critical thinking skills important in a classroom?

Multiple Select

What are the benefits of critical thinking for students? Select all that apply.

• Better performance and/or grades.

• Good decision making.

• Always agreeing with others.

• Independent thinking.

Open Ended

What is one technique that teachers could use in the classroom to support students critical thinking?

Open Ended

As future educators why will it be important to you to foster critical thinking in the classroom?