Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

1. Digital Pedagogy

   • Communication
     • The way people can interact through a variety of ways including, verbal, physical and using ICT tools. With the development of ICT tools communication can take many forms and be used around the world.
   • Collaboration
     • When people come together to collaborate and share ideas about a common concept. With the development if communication tools, collaborating can become easier with people sharing their knowledge and skills from a range of backgrounds.
   • Creativity
     • Creativity also continues to grows with the development of creative tools such as ICT tools. Creativity allows individuals or groups, express themselves in a variety of ways unique to the individual or group. This can also involve a collaboration of people to create creativity and communicate a common concept.
   • Teaching Pedagogy
     • Digital pedagogy implies the way students and teachers will use the ICT tools to enhance learning and how it will be transmitted to be useful in the future for the students. The inclusion of Digital pedagogy teaching strategies will incorporate ICT tools that the students will be able to use later in life as we continue to develop into technological era. This will also ensure the students will be prepared for the possible jobs and uses of future technological tools. The digital pedagogy will promote skills and knowledge students will use in the future as our technology advances, ensuring the best possible chance of the students excelling.

2. Concepts

   • Critically thinking about concepts allows individuals to distinguish positives and negatives about the concept, this can be a personal opinion or researched opinion, and then make a judgement on the concept by weighting up the pros and cons and then provide a personal judgement

3. Justify

   • To critically think about a concept an individual must be able to communicate and collaborate their ideas and justify the pros and cons of the concept, then argue their judgement on the concept. With the inclusion of Digital Pedagogy this can occur with ease, allowing the individual to justify their points with support of their ICT tools.

4. Teaching Critical Thinking

   • Teaching students how to critical think, incorporating digital tools, will allow students to express their ideas with an opportunity to support their arguments with further evidence. Finding supporting evidence will be easier for students if they have access the ICT tools and understand how to find the evidence. This will also allow the teaching to become easier with the use of ICT tools to support the teaching of certain concepts like finding evidence to support a position when critically thinking.