Hi, Are You A Critical Thinker?
Evaluate Your Social Media, "Evaluate Your Thinking"
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Use your critical evaluation skills to assess whether you are a critical thinker in everyday life. For each of the questions, answer the question with that best describes the type of person you are.
Critical evaluation in your everyday life
Answers choice of; 1- Almost always 2- Sometimes 3 - Almost never
Questions to answer;
1- I am curious about things
2- I do not take things at face value but like to examine and question them
3- I relate ideas to my previous knowledge, experience and wider context
People might describe me as opinionated, but I can always give reasons for
my opinion
4- I like to be innovative and creative
5- I like to evaluate all sides of an argument
6- I don’t like it when people make statements and give opinions without
having evidence to support what they are saying
7- I like to reflect on things before, during and particularly after the event
8- When other things occur that are related to what I have been doing, I’ll
think and sometimes talk about how they connect
Which columns did you tick for which question?
Is there a pattern to your responses?
Does this have implications for your learning?
If you scored: Mainly almost always - Well done, you are obviously a critical thinker, practice these skills and apply them to your students and you’ll do.
Mostly almost never - You might want to have ago at using some of the skills identified in the questions and try using them in your daily, but especially relate them to your studies.
This brief overview of evaluation of your style of thinking that may or may not imply that of critical thinking trends or the many commonalities of this type of thinking to be critical and the evaluation of such thinking helps engage the link between social media and critical thinking approach. The attributes of the advantages and the link between social media of critical thinking would be trends visible in the outcomes of what of social media impacts & aspects it reflects.
A simply summarized as that ...., Critical thinking is a critical competence in the information society
For some it’s a natural attitude. But for most people that’s a new reflex, behavior and attitude to adopt. But where and when ? As is many other fields like collaboration, good practices are learned at school. But, according to my own experience, the system is designed to deliver an unquestionable true. I even remind of teachers who considered any question as being questioned themselves. And the more we wait the more bad habits take root. Recently a french teacher set a trap for his students. He built false sites and Wikipedia pages about an author that never existed. Nearly none of of them cross-checked, questioned the information and they all fell in the trap. Don’t expert this competence to be taught at work either. Enterprises are not the kind of place where people who question things, doubt, double-check information are appreciated.
Those who own the knowledge should teach others to question it Questioning information is too often mistaken with questioning the one who delivers it. In hierarchical systems like enterprises or school, the one who should teach critical thinking is also the one who delivers information and they may think that if others question information they’ll question their own relevance. A matter of ego, a misunderstanding but that’s a big issue.
Anyway, critical thinking becomes essential to the good functioning of our society and enterprises and that’s a major competence in the information era. If we want to trust people, our children, employees, staff and their ability to make the right decisions in this context we should first teach them to question anything they’re told, anything they read. Even if it comes from us. Paradoxical but vital - "Critical Thinking"
