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20 Questions To Help Students Think Critically About News

Misleading info is often based on partial truths & reframed to fit a purpose. Here are questions to help students think critically about news.

“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

The most important critical thinking skills include analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inferencing, and judgement.

Bertrand Russell’s essential rules of critical thinking: #1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.

Global Digital Citizen Foundation combines both Bloom’s Taxonomy and power verbs for lesson & assessment planning in this graphic.

This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.

Critical Thinking / March 30, 2024

“A philosophy…sometimes called an understanding of the law…is a way that a person holds the laws…to guess quickly at consequences.”

Self-knowledge is formed through metacognition and basic epistemology. Here are 12 questions to help students see themselves as thinkers.v

We can address a deficit of critical thinking by embedding into the architecture of education. This can be accomplished in any number of ways.

These 32 habits that make thinkers can lead to that critical shift that moves students from mere students to learners who think critically.

A Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Graphic by TeachThought Staff If you’re a TeachThought reader, you know that thought is at the core of

“Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it.” –Wendell Berry