Week 5 Critical Thinking and Technology

Wednesday, February 15^th 2017

Alejandra Carolina Amaya Valle

Week 5

Developing Critical thinking in students with the use of technology.

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The Reading for this week was very attractive for me since expose the concern not only about how to get students to think in a critically way, but also about how we can help as a future teachers to make the students feel that interest and activate them with the purpose to help them to be able to conduct to analysis, draw accurate conclusions and at the same time express their thoughts when they asked.

In addition, something that really caught my attention when I was reading this article was that it mentioned a very important point of how human beings learns spontaneously when they try to deal with problems they worry .To clarify this point it said that people develop an intrinsic interest that refers to the behavior that is driven by internal rewards. In other words, involves performing an action an action because you enjoy it, not because you are trying to earn something; for instance, a grade or just to pass the exam.

 One phrase that really liked me about the author of the reading was “we should do less telling and more asking” because that means that as future teachers we have to take the time to teach to our students how to achieve this because we are there like a guide for them.

Another key point that the author made reference was the big important technology has as we already know. It said that using computers can be a great resource to help us to advance with the accomplishment relate with the objective about thinking critically.

To sum up, the definition of critical thinking is to acquire the ability to create, organize ideas, analyze facts, and defend opinions, evaluate arguments and solve problems, but we have to take into account that human beings are emotional and rational so, we as a future professors we  have the labor to be creative to active the student´s brain in order they can engage and express their ideas, for example, in a real situation and for that we have in our hands a great tool that is the computer that help us to be creative to catch the attention to the students since, not everybody learns the same way some people learns auditory and others visual


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