DEFINITION Discussion: Carefully read the attached essay by Wayne Bartz, Teachin
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DEFINITION Discussion: Carefully read the attached essay by Wayne Bartz, Teaching Skepticism. As you read this essay take careful notes. Select two or three items that you thought were particularly interesting or important and thoughtfully discuss them. You are asked to write a personal response in your 'main post' and a 'response post' to another student`s 'main post'. Both of your posts should follow the syllabus guidelines of 15-20 sentences. You will be required to post your "main post' before viewing replies. In your 'response' post both agreement and disagreement are welcomed. Bartz Teaching Skepticism - CRITIC.pdfPreview the document
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1- Dealing with teaching scepticism- the student behaviour of first day in class is very difficult for instructor, students come from different socio-economic backgrounds and these backgrounds make effect on the learning process so that the first day teaching seems to be difficult task. The reason behind scepticism may varies person to person, the instructor has to deal with such kind of problems. The effect of media, internet and social beliefs make things more complex. The essay defining the reason behind problems and also providing solutions to handle teaching scepticism. The reason behind scepticism can be described by personality traits, adolescence behaviour, communication gap and effects of information technology, the lack of critical thinking also make effects on scepticism, students believes about some information without knowing the real reason so that the instructor has to suffer to fill the appropriate knowledge. The author of this essay has suggested some solutions that can be helpful in teaching learning process.
2-CRITICS- CRITICS is a practical approach of critical thinking to deal with scepticism.
Claim- claim is the task which has been related to beginning of the class. Definition, demonstration, information are the key factor of claims.
Role of Claimant- in this part we describe the role of claims, people and reason behind claims and production of claims.
Information backing the claim- every claim consist some kind of evidence so in this part we explain the information reliability and validity of claims and ask the questions about information behind the claims.
Test- testing of a claim is very important to define the information so a test is good to get the proper understanding of proposed claims.
Independent Testing- information may be found by internet or social interaction so that independent testing can verify it.
Cause proposed- cause proposed is a kind of hypothesis testing which is very important to verify claims with the help of specialists.
The CRITICS is very good method or testing methods to get reliable information and make logical and critical thinking.
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