Critical Thinking
Thinking carefully and independently about information.
What is critical thinking?
The more you take away from me, the bigger I get.
What is a hole?
False or inaccurate information
What is misinformation?
The name of Harry Potter’s owl.
What is Hedwig?
The tendency to believe information that supports existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
What critical thinking skill means breaking information down?
Analysis
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M?
The ability to find, understand, evaluate, and use information online.
What is digital literacy?
The scientist who developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
A place where people only hear opinions similar to their own.
What is an echo chamber?
What critical thinking skill means judging if information is credible?
Evaluation
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
What is nine?
The responsibility people have before sharing online content.
What is checking if information is true?
The deepest ocean trench on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The type of thinking that becomes harder inside an echo chamber.
What is critical thinking?
The habit (skill!) of reflecting on and changing your thinking when presented with new evidence.
Self-regulation?
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. Why?
What is everyone on the boat is married?
Technology systems that decide what content appears in your social media feed.
What are algorithms?
Who was the 16th President of the United States?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The area of the brain responsible for processing emotions...
ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX
The six central skills of critical thinking...
Interpretation -- Analysis -- Evaluation
Inference -- Explanation -- Self-Regulation
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
What is 9?
The process of carefully checking whether information is accurate and reliable.
What is verification/fact-checking?
What was the first film to gross over $2 million at the box office?
What is Avatar?
The area of the brain responsible for reasoning...
DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX