Critical Thinking Strategies For Digital Literacy In The 21st Century

Dear Colleagues and Students, 

Welcome to Critical Thinking Strategies Games and Forum Discussion in which you would be the main participants and contributors. 

Objective: To learn about Critical Thinking Strategies when encountering online texts and news report online. (Digital Literacy) 

Activity Steps:

First, you will review the 12 Critical Thinking Strategies proposed by Doctor Richard Paul and Linda Elder about how to detect media Bias and propaganda. Please see the 3 pages PPT presentation attached and complementary Video Of Coursera.

After you have reviewed them, now you are ready to click on the following link game   http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/

You will find COVID -19 Articles on Medium and Hard Levels.  Six 6 Games Levels: Three 3 Reading Levels.

The idea is that when playing the game, you will Swipe RIGHT is the article is real or swipe LEFT if you think the article is fake); you will do this by applying the 12 Critical Thinking Strategies proposed by Doctor Richard Paul and Linda Elder.

Finally, in the Discussion Forum share which of the 12 Critical Thinking Strategies proposed by Doctor Richard Paul and Linda Elder helped you to determine whether the news report was real or was fake and share your thoughts and opinion. If you would like to propose your own Critical Thinking Strategy, you are more than welcome to do it.!

Kind Regards

Carolina