Week 5: Critical learning

Based on the article: Critical Thinking and Technology by Ken Bain.

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This article was about how we as teachers can make students think critically. 

Something that I remember from this article was that through the investigation, researchers have found that two theories. One of this is that human beings are naturally curious, and that is why we tend to ask for everything that is around us. We must take advantage for that in our students as asking them questions that intrigue them or if the know why X is like that, with the objective of awakening their curiosity. so that they become thinking beings. 

Something that I liked from this was that instead of teaching history, chemistry, etc. We must teach students to understand, and that is great because they can learn how to analyze, evaluate evidence, etc through teaching them different methods and techniques; it will be helpful for them as it would be meaningful learning because we would be teaching them how to produce something.

Besides, there are some students that have their own learning style like visual (they learn best with visual materials such as pictures, time lines, charts, diagrams, etc) auditory ( learners perform best when they hear the information such as podcasts, oral presentations, etc.) and kinesthetic (students learn through moving doing and touching). But,  we can provide them a better learning environment while implement new activities with different learning style so that, students can encourage their learning.

This article gives us a key to achieve our goal, which is to have diversity. as we know, each student learns differently, so we could implement activities using different learning styles. And this is where technology becomes part of it, because we have pictures, videos, songs, podcasts, etc to get students' attention. Also by their own they can search for more details about any topic that interests them,  finally, they will become gradually autonomous learners.