Has there ever been a time when critical thinking seemed more important? Last term, several hundred teachers took part in free CPD from the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme, developing their understanding and practical strategies for critical thinking.
A key part of the training, run by the Geographical Association and SSAT, was the opportunity to try something out in the classroom and share the results. In this article, teachers from a range of subjects reflect on what they learned from the course and the impact it had on students’ learning.
Digital literacy and critical thinking
Ruth Harding, North Leamington School, Warwickshire
Most students use the internet when researching tasks for home learning, so it is of vital importance that they consume this information critically, and can discern the reliability and bias in a source. The students found an interesting article on the internet and assessed it using a list of questions, before discussing their articles as a whole class. The questions were:
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