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Re-Imagining Critical Thinking in the Digital Age Narrowing the Gulf Conference March 30, 2012 Presenters: Matthew Bodie, M.A. Cher N. Gauweiler, Ph.D.
Re-Imagining Critical Thinking in the Digital Age Narrowing the Gulf Conference March 30, 2012 Presenters: Matthew Bodie, M.A. Cher N. Gauweiler, Ph.D
Slide 2 Re-Imagining Critical Thinking in the Digital Age
Narrowing the Gulf Conference March 30, 2012 Presenters: Matthew
Bodie, M.A. Cher N. Gauweiler, Ph.D. Slide 3 The Bottom Line We
live in an ecosystem of interruption technologies (Carr, 2011).
Slide 4 The Shallows Slide 5 Defining our terms What is text? What
is media? What is message? Slide 6 Analyze this! What is the
message? Who is the messenger? Slide 7 An Experiment
http://slate.me/Ha4xXm Slide 8 Points to Ponder #1 How can someone
critically think quickly? Has skimming become our dominant form of
reading? Slide 9 The Same? Or Different? (Best, 2004) Slide 10
Strategies to try Give a purpose for reading.purpose Slow down when
reading. Teach students how to determine importance.importance
Other ideas? Slide 11 Points to Ponder #2 What has happened to the
role of author and reader? Are we all authors? http://bit.ly/Ha4V8q
Slide 12 Question. Question It is time to elect the world leader,
and yours is the deciding vote. Here are the facts about the three
leading candidates: Candidate A: He associates with crooked
politicians, and consults with astrologers. He's had two
mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks up to ten Martinis a
day. Candidate B: He was ejected from office twice, sleeps until
noon, used opium in college and drinks a large amounts of whisky
every evening. Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a
vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had
any extra-marital affairs. Slide 13 Strategies to try Question
authority!authority Cross-check references Slide 14 Point to Ponder
#3 What is relevance? Slide 15 Strategy #3 Ask questions, such as:
Which stories are trending?trending Which point of view is being
privileged? Which points of view are being emphasized? Learn how
redefine issues. Access alternative sources.alternative sources Put
events in historical perspectives.historical perspectives Slide 16
References Best, J. (2004). Confusing numbers. In More damned lies
and statistics: How numbers confuse public issues (pp. 44-46).
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley University of California Carr, N. (2011).
What the Internet is doing to our brains: The shallows. W. W.
Norton and Company: New York. Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2006). How
to detect media bias & propaganda in national and world news, 3
rd ed. Foundation for Critical Thinking.
www.criticalthinking.orgwww.criticalthinking.org
