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Helping Your Child
Think Critically Using
Technology Tools
Alice Owen
FDLRS Administration Project
Coordinator, ESE Special Projects
owena@nefec.org
What Is Critical Thinking?
When you think of strong critical thinkers,
who do you picture?
Pictures are linked to their source
Why Is It Important?
• Patient deaths
• Lost revenue
• Ineffective law
enforcement
• Gullible voters
• Combat casualities
• Unplanned pregnancies
• Vehicular homicide
• Family violence
• Repeated suicide
attempts
• Drug addiction
• Academic failure
• BAD DECISIONS
Consider the consequences of failing to use critical
thinking ability.
Core Critical Thinking Skills
Can Critical Thinking Be Learned?
Critical Thinking is a
learned skill that requires
instruction and practice.
All individuals can
improve their critical
thinking ability.
Pictures are linked to their source
Quandry
Quandary is a free,
award-winning game that
engages your child in
ethical decision-making
and develops skills that
will help them recognize
ethical issues and deal
with challenging situations
in their own lives.
Traffic Jam or
Rush Hour FREE
These are sliding block logic puzzles that ask you
to move a specific block/car in the shortest, most
efficient path possible.
7 Little Words
If you enjoy crossword
puzzles, word finds, and
anagram games, you're going
to love 7 Little Words! Find
the mystery words by
deciphering the clues and
combining the letter groups. 7
Little Words is fun,
challenging, and easy to
learn.
Idea Sketch
Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram -
mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and
convert it to a text outline, and vice versa.
You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as
brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts,
making lists and outlines, planning
presentations, creating organizational charts,
and more!
Critical Thinking Insight
Critical Thinking Insight includes two
stimulating thinking assessments.
– The Reasoning Skills Test
– The Reasoning Mindset Survey
These tests are based on over 30 years
of research applications. Taking both
tests requires approximately 15-20
minutes.
Critical Thinking University
Critical Thinking University ‘Think-O-Meter is an
app developed by Pearson.
It is geared toward college business majors, but
may help older students begin testing their ability
to separate reliable facts from assumptions,
focus on the relevant information, and think
critically to get the right answer.
Critical Thinking Basic
Critical Thinking Basic is an app that aims to
help you to assess and improve the quality of
your reasoning.
It prompts you to reflect about the reasoning
behind an issue you are working on and guide
your reflection process through nine simple
Universal Standards of Reasoning.
References
Snyder, L. G. & Snyder, M. J. (2008). Teaching Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving Skills. The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, Volume L (No
2, Spring/Summer), pp. 90-99. Retrieved from URL:
http://reforma.fen.uchile.cl/Papers/Teaching%20Critical%20Thinking
%20Skills%20and%20problem%20solving%20skills%20-
%20Gueldenzoph,%20Snyder.pdf
Facione, P. A. (2013). “Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It
Counts.” Millbrae, CA: Measured Reasons and The California
Academic Press. Web. 2 June 2014. Retrieved from URL:
http://www.insightassessment.com/content/download/1176/7580/file
/What%26why2013.pdf
Helping Your Child
Think Critically Using
Technology Tools
Alice Owen
FDLRS Administration Project
Coordinator, ESE Special Projects
owena@nefec.org

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Apps to Promote Critical Thinking

  • 1. Helping Your Child Think Critically Using Technology Tools Alice Owen FDLRS Administration Project Coordinator, ESE Special Projects owena@nefec.org
  • 2. What Is Critical Thinking? When you think of strong critical thinkers, who do you picture? Pictures are linked to their source
  • 3. Why Is It Important? • Patient deaths • Lost revenue • Ineffective law enforcement • Gullible voters • Combat casualities • Unplanned pregnancies • Vehicular homicide • Family violence • Repeated suicide attempts • Drug addiction • Academic failure • BAD DECISIONS Consider the consequences of failing to use critical thinking ability.
  • 5. Can Critical Thinking Be Learned? Critical Thinking is a learned skill that requires instruction and practice. All individuals can improve their critical thinking ability. Pictures are linked to their source
  • 6. Quandry Quandary is a free, award-winning game that engages your child in ethical decision-making and develops skills that will help them recognize ethical issues and deal with challenging situations in their own lives.
  • 7. Traffic Jam or Rush Hour FREE These are sliding block logic puzzles that ask you to move a specific block/car in the shortest, most efficient path possible.
  • 8. 7 Little Words If you enjoy crossword puzzles, word finds, and anagram games, you're going to love 7 Little Words! Find the mystery words by deciphering the clues and combining the letter groups. 7 Little Words is fun, challenging, and easy to learn.
  • 9. Idea Sketch Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!
  • 10. Critical Thinking Insight Critical Thinking Insight includes two stimulating thinking assessments. – The Reasoning Skills Test – The Reasoning Mindset Survey These tests are based on over 30 years of research applications. Taking both tests requires approximately 15-20 minutes.
  • 11. Critical Thinking University Critical Thinking University ‘Think-O-Meter is an app developed by Pearson. It is geared toward college business majors, but may help older students begin testing their ability to separate reliable facts from assumptions, focus on the relevant information, and think critically to get the right answer.
  • 12. Critical Thinking Basic Critical Thinking Basic is an app that aims to help you to assess and improve the quality of your reasoning. It prompts you to reflect about the reasoning behind an issue you are working on and guide your reflection process through nine simple Universal Standards of Reasoning.
  • 13. References Snyder, L. G. & Snyder, M. J. (2008). Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills. The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, Volume L (No 2, Spring/Summer), pp. 90-99. Retrieved from URL: http://reforma.fen.uchile.cl/Papers/Teaching%20Critical%20Thinking %20Skills%20and%20problem%20solving%20skills%20- %20Gueldenzoph,%20Snyder.pdf Facione, P. A. (2013). “Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts.” Millbrae, CA: Measured Reasons and The California Academic Press. Web. 2 June 2014. Retrieved from URL: http://www.insightassessment.com/content/download/1176/7580/file /What%26why2013.pdf
  • 14. Helping Your Child Think Critically Using Technology Tools Alice Owen FDLRS Administration Project Coordinator, ESE Special Projects owena@nefec.org

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. Click to show picture of critical thinker examples. Back to critical thinking – let’s ask ourselves to come up with possible examples of strong critical thinking? How about the adroit and clever questioning of Socrates or a good attorney or interviewer? Or, what about the clever investigative approaches used by police detectives and crime scene analysts? Would we not want to also include people working together to solve a problem as they consider and discuss their options? How about someone who is good at listening to all sides of a dispute, considering all the facts, and then deciding what is relevant and what is not, and then rendering a thoughtful judgment? And maybe too, someone who is able to summarize complex ideas clearly with fairness to all sides, or a person who can come up with the most coherent and justifiable explanation of what a passage of written material means? Or the person who can readily devise sensible alternatives to explore, but who does not become defensive about abandoning them if they do not work? And also the person who can explain exactly how a particular conclusion was reached, or why certain criteria apply?
  2. Excerpted from Pages 5-7 in the article: “Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts” Interpretation is “to comprehend and express the meaning or significance of a wide variety of experiences, situations, data, events, judgments, conventions, beliefs, rules, procedures, or criteria.” Interpretation includes the sub-skills of categorization, decoding significance, and clarifying meaning.   Analysis is “to identify the intended and actual inferential relationships among statements, questions, concepts, descriptions, or other forms of representation intended to express belief, judgment, experiences, reasons, information, or opinions.” The experts include examining ideas, detecting arguments, and analyzing arguments as sub-skills of analysis.   Evaluation as meaning “to assess the credibility of statements or other representations which are accounts or descriptions of a person’s perception, experience, situation, judgment, belief, or opinion; and to assess the logical strength of the actual or intended inferential relationships among statements, descriptions, questions or other forms of representation.”   Inference means “to identify and secure elements needed to draw reasonable conclusions; to form conjectures and hypotheses; to consider relevant information and to educe the consequences flowing from data, statements, principles, evidence, judgments, beliefs, opinions, concepts, descriptions, questions, or other forms of representation.” As sub-skills of inference the experts list querying evidence, conjecturing alternatives, and drawing conclusions.   Explanation as being able to present in a cogent and coherent way the results of one’s reasoning. This means to be able to give someone a full look at the big picture: both “to state and to justify that reasoning in terms of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, and contextual considerations upon which one’s results were based; and to present one’s reasoning in the form of convincing arguments.” The sub-skills under explanation are describing methods and results, justifying procedures, proposing and defending with good reasons one’s causal and conceptual explanations of events or points of view, and presenting full and well-reasoned, arguments in the context of seeking the best understandings possible.   Self-regulation to mean “self-consciously to monitor one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities, and the results educed, particularly by applying skills in analysis, and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questioning, confirming, validating, or correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results.” The two sub-skills here are self-examination and self-correction.
  3. Review the content on the slide and then say, “We are going to look at just a few mobile apps that may help you encourage your child to improve their critical thinking abilities.”
  4. .
  5. The Reasoning Skills Test uses everyday scenarios to determine an overall score describing how well you apply your critical thinking skills to solving the problems. The Reasoning Mindset Survey provides an overall score describing your approach to decision making and problem-solving.
  6. Critical Thinking Basic helps you rate and reflect about an idea, a point of view, a decision, a work, and more, against nine simple universal standards of reasoning.