The Foundational 4 Cs of Critical Thinking in K-12 Education
The 4 Cs of Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking, Communication. Collaboration, and Creativity.
The 4 Cs of Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking, Communication. Collaboration, and Creativity.
Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when an individual encounters a conflict between what they believe and how they behave, or between two competing beliefs.
Critical thinking strategies often employ multiple data sources and perspectives in pursuit of understanding.
The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.
Teaching students to ask good questions engages them & acts as ongoing assessment. Here are some of the benefits of inquiry-based learning.
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgment while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions.
The 3-2-1 strategy is a simple way to frame a topic or task, making it useful for anything from discussion prompts to inquiry learning.
Logical fallacies are irrational arguments made through faulty reasoning common enough to be named for its respective logical failure.
What are some of the most common types of questions for teaching critical thinking? This led to many dozens of answers.
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.
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