WEEK 5: CRITICAL THINKING

Based in the article "critical thinking and technology" by Ken Bain.

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According to the article as a teacher or future teacher we have to keep in mind how to help students with their critical think not just for the use of the tecnology, also with their opinion about other subjects. In teaching, we must be willing to dig back toward the surface and to meet our students there,to help students understand why our currentn deliberations capture our attention.

Is important to helps our students to learn is to acquire the ability to reason, that is, the ability to draw conclusions on the basis of reasons, that also help students to acquire knowledges and develop their abstract reasoning capacities.

As a teachers we have to be patiente because we have to teach students how to learn to use their citical opinions or thinking about the use of the tecnology in class.

That we have to had clear is that not all the students learn in the same way, People like different kinds of input, not the same kind all of the time. Relatively few people have fixed styles of learning in which they can learn from only one kind of experience, but many people do have learning personalities in which they often express that they prefer visual information; for example: pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, demonstration. And other prefer the auditory imput, for example the use of podcast or listenning activities.

In my opinion is realy important to teach students how to think in a critical way, because is important to know what students think about some topic, some subjects and also the methods that we use for teach a specific topic.

Another point is the Ideally, computers can help us foster the accomplishment of the highest learning objectives we have for our students: the ability to think critically and creatively, to reason, to use our disciplinary approaches to information, to learn and to want to learn independently of any informal instruction, and to work collaboratively in solving important problems.

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