Critical Thinking

Presenter: Betsy Aoki, David McGavock, Howard Reingold

• Bing background is an image map with links to a variety of links (default focus is water)
• instant answers from Bing share the source on the bottom
• Bing results let you preview items before clicking on the link for further exploration
• bing.com/social allows you to get results from the social web
• bing.com/maps/apps has a variety of apps such as hotel finder, photosynth and today’s front page news
• students must figure out the source of the material that they are reading to determine authority etc.
• wikipedia is the best place to start but worst place to stop when doing research
• wikipedia reveals the process used for creating the page
• have students justify reason for using a source so that they explicitly practice critical thinking in selecting sources

Continue the discussion

• Critical thinking resource and place to continue the conversation – http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net

Resources

• Critical thinking in the classroom from Microsoft – http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx
• News rated on the basis of quality using defined criteria – http://newstrust.net/
• Reliability of wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
• Reviews of movies, games, mobile apps, websites, TV, books, music – http://commonsensemedia.org