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Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
It is increasingly important to teach students how to develop their critical thinking abilities. This site lists some ideas and strategies that can help teach them to improve their critical thinking skills.
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Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
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How to Detect Media Bias & Propaganda [Pdf]
A portion of a larger book, this site is critical of journalism as it is presently practiced. This portion offers characteristics of critical news consumers.
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In Time: Evaluating Media for Bias
This site provides a checklist, especially helpful for teachers, that details the way to check media elements to be used in the classroom for biases. This site provides six questions to help evaluate the effectiveness of the media in...
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Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...
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Frank Baker: Information Literacy Exercise
Using an article from Dateline Hollywood, this lesson explores a media message and examines its content.
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Central Rivers Aea: Webb's Depth of Knowledge (Dok)
This page offers a wealth of downloadable resources for teaching critical thinking skills. Choose the thinking skill you wish to teach, and several .pdf files will be available, including strategies, assessments and student handouts.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Facts and Opinions
This slideshow focuses on facts and opinions; it provides definitions, examples, and articles for practice.
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Class Flow: Becoming an Effective Listener
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on the traits of an effective listener and the identification of popular logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. In addition, there is an Activote at the end to check student...
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Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies
This resource presents strategies to help improve your critical thinking skills, this site provides useful information for applying these skills to your everyday life.
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Listening Skills Self Evaluation
Listening is a skill that is often overlooked and it can have everything to do with how someone views you. This site provides an evaluation that allows the user to analyze their ability to listen in a thoughtfull manner. The evaluation...
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
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Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking?
Reading and writing are essentially thinking. This site examines the aspects of critical thinking, including rationality, self-awareness, honesty, open-mindedness, discipline, and judgment. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity
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Thinking Skills in Education: Comparing Four Frameworks
An interesting article that discusses various types of thinking skills and why they are important in education.
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How to Improve Critical Thinking
It is important to be able to think in different ways. This site gives some ideas on how to improve your critical thinking skills.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Evaluating Sources: Putting It Together: Evaluating Sources
This is a summary of evaluating sources using the CAARP analysis method including questions to ask yourself about each source. W.9-10.8 Sources
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Lumen: Using Sources: Introduction to Establishing Source Credibility
This is an introduction to establishing credibility by using appropriate integration of source material. Click on the Next button at the bottom right to get to more information about how to establish credibility through integration....
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Cuesta College: Interpreting What You Read
This site from Cuesta College provides both in-depth definitions of fact and opinion, and several clear examples of each.
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Frontiernet.net: Note Taking
This site from Frontiernet.net outlines the reason why educators prefer to "lecture" students, as well as the best ways to take notes during these lectures.