


50 Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students Infer the author’s purpose. Distinguish between primary and secondary audiences. Summarize the media by identifying its 3-5 most important ideas or events. Identify and diagram the literary elements (e.g., setting, characters, conflict, etc.) Identify and analyze characters as major or minor; flat or round; static or…
A Complete Logical Fallacies List With Examples For Critical Thinking contributed by Owen M. Wilson, University of Texas El Paso A logical fallacy is an irrational argument made through faulty reasoning common enough to be named for the nature of its respective logical failure. The A Priori Argument Also: Rationalization; Dogmatism, Proof Texting A corrupt argument…
A cognitive bias is an inherent thinking ‘blind spot’ that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate–and often irrational–conclusions.
30 Universal Strategies For Learning Challenge something Make an observation Draw a conclusion Question something Revise a question based on observation & data Critique something Explain the significance Revise something Transfer a lesson or philosophical stance from one situation to another Improve a design Identify a cause and effect Compare and contrast two or more…
Students needed to see what a ‘quality’ reading response looked like. Once these questions were demystified a bit, it was all downhill.