This document discusses critical thinking and using YouTube videos to teach critical thinking skills. It defines critical thinking as improving one's thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing ideas. Some key elements of critical thinking are thinking independently, being fair-minded, having intellectual humility, and examining assumptions. The document provides examples of humor, opinion, and debate videos that can be used, along with guidance on how to analyze them using concepts like Bloom's Taxonomy of higher-order thinking skills. These include skills like understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The purpose is to help learners practice critical analysis and evaluation of ideas.
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Healey-Critical thinking with YouTube
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Critical
Thinking
and
YouTube
Deborah Healey,
dhealey@uoregon.edu
American English Institute
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon
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Overview
What you know
Elements of CT
Different types of videos
Blooms taxonomy and video tasks
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What do you think now?
What is critical thinking?
What are some characteristics of CT?
(Think, Pair, Share)
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Definitions of CT:
Paul & Elder
Critical thinking is that mode of thinking about any
subject, content, or problem in which the thinker
improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully
analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical
thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored,
and self-corrective thinking. It presupposes assent to
rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command
of their use.
Foundation for Critical Thinking: http://criticalthinking.org
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Elements of critical thinking
Thinking independently
Fairmindedness
Intellectual humility
Clarifying issues
Listening critically
Examining assumptions
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/strategy-list-35-
dimensions-of-critical-thought/466
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Watch - humor
1st viewing: What is going on?
2nd viewing: What is unexpected?
Discussion: Was this funny? Why or why
not?
Do you speak English? ol
If All Movies had Internet ol
If All Movies had Smartphones ol
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Watch - opinion
1st viewing: What is going on?
viewing: What is the womans point of
2nd
view? What is the point of view that she
doesnt like?
Discussion:Whose opinion do you agree
with, and why?
And now you know non-smoker ol
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Watch - debate
Vocabulary: vegan, omnivore
1st viewing: What are the points of view?
Discussion: Whose opinions do you agree with, and
why?
2nd viewing: What do you think now? Did your ideas
change?
The Doctors: Vegans vs Meat Eaters ol
The Meat and Dairy Drug ol
Philip Wollen: Animals Should be Off the Menu
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Digital literacy movie trailers
1st viewing: What is going on?
2nd
viewing: What are they doing with sound
and image to affect how you feel?
Men In Black 3 trailer ol
Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer ol
Oz the Great and Powerful trailer ol
The Last Stand trailer ol
11. Cognitive Domain Verbs Products
Remembering Define, duplicate, list, name, recall, Definitions, fact charts, lists,
(Remember info) reproduce, tell, underline recitations, worksheets
Understanding Calculate, describe, discuss, expand, Drawing, paraphrasing, peer
(Explain info/ explain, identify, locate, outline, teaching, show and tell, story
concepts) report, restate problems, summary
Applying Classify, demonstrate, dramatize, Collection, interview, model
(Use information in illustrate, practice, solve, use building, presentation, role
new ways) playing, scrap book, simulate
Analyzing Appraise, compare, contrast, Chart, plan, questionnaire,
(Distinguish different differentiate, distinguish, examine, spreadsheet, summary,
parts) infer, outline, sequence, test survey
Evaluating Appraise, defend, dispute, editorialize, Critique, judgment, opinion,
(Defend concept or judge, justify, prioritize, rate, select, recommendation, report, self-
idea) support, verify evaluation
Creating Change, combine, compose, create, Puppet show, cartoon, book
(Create new) define, formulate, hypothesize, cover, multimedia, new game,
improve, invent, predict poem, skit
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Q&A
Thank you for sharing your ideas!
Deborah Healey, dhealey@uoregon.edu
https://sites.google.com/site/criticalthinkingwithvideo
http://pages.uoregon.edu/dhealey
http://www.deborahhealey.com
Thanks to Deanna Hochstein for some CT material!
Editor's Notes
#2: COMMENTS about the title first, it is possible to develop critical thinking, even in grammar classes, so, yes, critical thinking applies to the EL teacher, second, as you have learned well, the fields current emphasis on communicative language teaching and changing roles of the teacher and learner, the teachers role is one of facilitator and model rather than the center of the classroom. This demands a good understanding of teaching and learning and a good command of how to structure a student-centered curriculum. One of the first lessons to learn, as already noted, is that the teacher must know the subject well in order to be a model and facilitator. This is true of critical thinking as well. The teacher must first understand what critical thinking is, in fact, must be a critical thinker her- himself in order to model critical thinking effectively for the students and to help students become better critical thinkers.
#11: overview of next set of activitiesQuestioningHOTS TaxonomyStandards measuring the quality of thinkingTraits values necessary for an ethical selfless critical thinker not agreed to by all, but worthy of consideration all the sameSelf-reflection can understand and believe in all of the above, yet not apply it. Only through examination can the teacher really make it work, really absorb it in a way that it becomes teachableElements talk about briefly, familiar terms, difficult to apply systematically and thoroughly
#12: Using the list as a guide, add information about the types of video activities to address each of the domains, especially higher ones