Want to create interactive content? It’s easy in Genially!
Critical thinking
Xander Declerck
Created on June 10, 2022
Start designing with a free template
Discover more than 1500 professional designs like these:
View
Teaching Challenge: Transform Your Classroom
View
Frayer Model
View
Math Calculations
View
Interactive QR Code Generator
View
Interactive Scoreboard
View
Interactive Bingo
View
Interactive Hangman
Transcript
BACK TOINFORMATION SKILLS
Why critical thinking?
Manipulating numbers
Hoax
5 help questions
Introduction
In this module you will learn
- what critical thinking is
- which skills you need
- how you can apply these skills
Faulty reasoning
Why critical thinking?
Critical thinking at work
Click on each term for more information
Critical thinking is one of the 21st century skills required to participate in our society. A student should learn to adopt an investigative approach at all times. Do not take the information you find in source material as true without further research. Analyse and assess the quality of the source.
Reasoning
Statement
Hypothesis
- Are the statements true?
- Are the arguments valid?
- Is there any sign of prejudice?
Observation
Argument
Conclusion
5 help questions
What
it rather is
Critical thinking...is not
is in the text?
- criticising
- dejecting
- confirming
- questioning
- researching
Where
Why
did you find the information?
was the text written?
When
Who
was the text written?
forms the research group?
Faulty reasoning
Turning the statement
Toying with emotions
Circle reasoning
Changing definitions
A pure or logical reasoning follows the laws of logic
- statements
- observations
- conclusions
False comparison
In texts we usually find reasonings of another type. It is not always as simple to recognise the claim and the arguments and to see from where the conclusion comes. In order to assess these kind of texts we use the five help questions: what? why? who? when? where?
Types of faulty reasoning
Generalisation
Invalid arguments or reasoning faults are quite common when trying to convince the reader, conscious or unconscious On this page, you will find a few common examples of reasoning faults.
Exchanging cause and effect
Unjustified appeal on authority
Manipulating numbers
Juggling with numbers is quite common in the media. One newspaper says that unemployment decreases by 2,5%, while another newspaper says that youth unemployment and long-term unemployment have increased by 4,4%. It depends on how you look at it and how you interpretate it. It is important to look at the big picture and look at the numbers in the right context. A few examples can be found on this page.
Graphs
Brexit
Dieselgate
Ivago
De Morgen
Bron: Een op drie werklozen in Vlaanderen is allochtoon, De Tijd, 7 januari 2020
Hoax
A hoax is a message that presents itself as true, but is partially or completely wrong. Sometimes they are harmless jokes, but at other times the concequences can be very grave. Here you can find a few examples of a hoax.