How to Boost Critical Thinking in Your Students

From problem-solving to decision-making, teaching students to think critically equips them to tackle challenges both in and beyond the classroom!

In this live, we'll explore practical techniques and effective strategies to help you strengthen critical thinking in your students and make it an integral part of your teaching practice!

0:00 Critical Thinking Introduction
5:50 What is Critical Thinking?
8:19 Why are critical thinking skills so important?
11:05 Review of Bloom's Taxonomy
16:10 Bias - a cerebral shortcut
19:15 Activity: Reporting on Tourism
31:16 Anchoring Bias
33:11 The Halo effect
38:47 Outcome Bias
42:28 Activity: why such different headlines?
45:59 Fact vs Opinion
50:27 Mad Modern Art: a 4Cs activity
55:47 The Magic Questions and conclusions

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