Saturday, July 29, 2017

4 ways to update critical thinking skills for a massively digital world - JENNIFER CONROY, eSchool News

Faced with a flood of information, we are challenged to evaluate and make sense of what we see and read, especially in the digital world. Parents, students, educators, and employers all have a stake in meeting this challenge through the use of critical thinking skills. It is vital that people develop the ability to analyze the information they encounter online and assess whether they can trust the sources behind the content. But how can these important skills be taught and strengthened? Based on my own experiences teaching both high school and college students, here are four suggestions on how critical thinking skills can be taught in the digital age: https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/07/19/update-critical-thinking-skills/