Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

The Difference Between Logical Fallacies And Cognitive Biases

The difference between fallacies and biases is fallacies are real-time thinking errors while biases are pre-dispositions for future errors.

A question is only a strategy (for inquiry) and must therefore have a purpose if we want to evaluate its quality.

From this practice, you learn to experience, to realize, that what happens to you, and what you do are one in the same process.

Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?

As they are learning, give students the opportunity to articulate their thought process of how they came up with their solution to a puzzle.

According to the creators, the question formulation technique helps build skills for lifelong learning, self-advocacy & democratic action.

As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students.

The goal of the Socratic seminar is to foster critical thinking by examining inaccurate/incomplete beliefs and the assumptions behind them.