The Scanning Game Task 1.Scan the information in “ Important Steps in the Development of Mass Communications.” Answer the questions as quickly as you can. 1) Which items are about newspapers? 2) Which items are about paper making? 3) How many items are about the movies? 4) Which items are about the...

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Methods to use to develop critical thinking skills Method – a procedure, technique, or planned way of doing something. Scan – glance at hastily and examine minutely; to scan is to look for specific information quickly; when you scan you don’t read every word. Skim – read superficially or hastily,...

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  Most of us are not what we could be. We are less. We have great capacity. But most of it is dormant; most is undeveloped. Improvement in thinking is like improvement in basketball, in ballet, or in playing the saxophone. It is unlikely to take place in the absence...

Teaching critical thinking Benjamin Bloom (1956) created this taxonomy or classification system for categorizing "competencies" in educational settings, as defined by skills demonstrated by learner type or intelligence. This breakdown provides a useful, incremental framework of complexity in...

Constructing true/false tests What happens: Learner Analyzes a statement Assesses whether true or false Marks an answer When/how to use: Appropriate for all levels of cognitive ability Objective Efficient in testing recall and comprehension of a broader content area relative to other...

Teaching critical thinking Critical thinking, as it pertains to teaching and learning, can be considered an open-minded process of discovery and understanding analysis and application synthesis and evaluation. These three groupings and their six components reflect B. S. Bloom’s (et...

  1st of September is the holiday of the beginning of the new academic year, primarily for the pupils, students, teachers and professors. Traditionally on this day in the schools there are held the ceremonial events, dedicated to the beginning of the school year. The first year pupils are...