Wednesday, May 4, 2016

5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking

Hoff, Jane

IL–Critical Thinking

5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos. (2016, March 15). Retrieved 2016, from http://ed.ted.com/lessons/5-tips-to-improve-your-critical-thinking-samantha-agoos

5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking

Summary:  This TED-Ed video uses visually appealing animation to support verbal explanation of the importance of critical thinking skills in everyday life.  As we are exposed to an vast sea of information, through interpersonal interactions, digital media, and environmental conditions, we are faced with a tremendous task of making decisions.  While critical thinking is not the only way to make decisions, the application of the 5 step process in sense making and decision making attributed to critical thinking has proved to be more frequently successful and more desirable quality of successful people.  This video was designed to share with students to help guide them in developing successful critical thinking processes and skills, as well as understand the purpose critical thinking serves.


Review:  Yet again TED- Ed does not disappoint.  This concise video offers a meaningful explanation of critical thinking with engaging tie-ins to everyday activities that is clearly directed to a young adult or teen audience.  The video also offers a well-illustrated and easily navigable 5 steps for approaching thinking critically.  While this might not be the best video to show K – 6 students, it may serve a tremendous value in demystifying the learning objectives and targets in critical thinking for older students in middle school and high school.  This video will most certainly focus the key elements that educators would need to emphasize to their students in critical thinking iteration even in lower elementary grades.  This also has a full TED-Ed Lesson option (found on the right side menu panel).

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