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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