(How) Would You Use This Critical Thinking Video?
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This “Critical Thinking” video is worth a watch.
Now: What follow-up questions for discussion or writing will get the most bang for the buck if used in the classroom?
(h/t One Good Move)
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An outstanding video.
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Clay Burell Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Thanks for spreading it and a good new year to you, Stephen.
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Stephen Downes
27 Dec 09 at 11:13 pm
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28 Dec 09 at 2:32 am
great video, thanks for sharing. I am thinking of watching it once in the classroom and then replay it and ask for examples, stopping for each part, linking it to their experiences.
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Clay Burell Reply:
December 28th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
It would be a good beginning of year/course activity, if it could implant the concept in a short-hand sort of way so that weeks and months later a quick reference to it could prompt students to clear their biases as quickly as they clear their desks when “ordered.”
That this is difficult for them to do was made abundantly clear to me a couple weeks ago as I read the semester exam essays on European civ from beginnings to Scientific Revolution. Almost nothing critical about the Greeks, Romans, or Monotheism despite having toured the low points of all of them. Instead, pom-poms.
So a definite need. (I’ve tried “Think like an alien in his first year on Earth” as a similar short-hand.)
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Edith
28 Dec 09 at 8:48 am
Hi Clay,
I like this. Thanks for posting. Very clear and compact, covers a lot of territory in a short period of time. I’d be inclined, like Edith, to watch it once through with a class and then go back through slowly and ask for illustrations, clarifying questions, objections. I’d also want to cycle back to some of the basic moves suggested and have them practice.
If you want to play with the “alien in his first year on earth” angle, you might want to have your students look at Craig Raine, and/or have them read about the Nacirema.
http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-raine.html
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~thompsoc/Body.html
- Bruce
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Clay Burell Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Bruce, thanks for the two excellent links. I’d seen them both before, but the Nacirema piece took on a lot more value for me in this reading.
Nice to see you, by the way, and hope you’re well. How’s Chris? And how does the school feel about its famous alumnus?
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Bruce Schauble
29 Dec 09 at 6:33 am
Clay,
Thank you for sharing this. I am putting together my intro to ed tech class as we speak and this vid will feature prominently.
As I watched it, I began thinking about how I will get students to think critically about the contents. I could “threaten” them with a quiz. But that’s no way to get them to synthesize the info. Instead I’m thinking of asking them to create a lesson that involves the principles shared. (This is a teacher ed course.) I will also ask them to determine how we will evaluate lessons. (~My students hate me!)
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Clay Burell Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 12:45 am
And their lessons would be excellent things to share. If ever you do, please update here with a link.
Best of the New Year for you, Chris. “Always Forward, hoo-ah!”
(Right.)
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Christopher D. Sessums
30 Dec 09 at 12:33 am
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1 Jan 10 at 5:02 pm
Nice one Clay!
I’d like to follow the video directly with an activity that got people challenging their assumptions – particularly around the use of technology and learning… Then we could use the video to provide a framework, check back in at some of the critical points to review how those assumptions have been arrived at..
Rather like Edith and Bruce are suggesting – however, I’m also thinking that less experienced learners may find aspects of this challenging… perhaps some warm up introductory activties on meta-cognition first?
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Anne Bartlett-Bragg
23 Jan 10 at 10:29 am