Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to Improve Critical Thinking Skills in
eTwinning Projects
by Xanthie Chouliara (Phd St) and Dr Spiros
Kioulanis
Creative thinking skills in eTwinning? What’s
up?
Nowadays, without any doubt, Critical Thinking is
what every person needs in order to survive in a
rapidly changing world. Critical thinking is the study
of clear and unclear thinking. It is primarily used in
the field of education. The list of core critical
thinking skills includes observation, interpretation,
analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and
metacognition. According to Mulnix (2010), an
individual or group engaged in a strong way of
critical thinking gives due consideration to
establish, for instance: evidence through
observation; context skills to isolate the problem
from context; relevant criteria for making the
judgment well; applicable methods or techniques
for forming the judgment; applicable theoretical
constructs for understanding the problem and the
question at hand.
The critical thinking skills in eTwinning
projects
Critical thinking is an important element of all
professional fields and academic disciplines by
referencing their respective sets of permissible
questions, evidence sources, criteria.
These are the critical thinking skills – see
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/aquick-guide-to-21st-century-critical.html:
In addition to possessing strong critical-thinking
skills, an eTwinner needs to be disposed to engage
problems and decisions using those skills. According
to Mulnix’s “Broad intellectual criteria of critical
thinking” (2010), critical thinking employs not only
logic but broad intellectual criteria such as:
The process of critical thinking involves the careful
acquisition and interpretation of information and
use of it to reach a well-justified conclusion – see
http://itblibrary.blogspot.gr/2012/11/criticalthinking_13.html:
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