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Critical Thinking

Everyone thinks it's a natural human process, what can make the difference in the thinking process it´s the way how we think. According to the Foundation for Critical Thinking (2019) critical thinking <is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

In this first activity, trying to develop tools that helped us to be more critical about our own thinking process and to think about our environment in this global world, we have created posters trying to answer the two main questions, define <What is critical thinking?= and <How can be the critical thinking be connected with fake news?=

With these posters, we have achieved some keywords and expressions that can help us to define what is critical thinking like <thinking outside the box=, <rational thinking=, <crosschecking=, <not reliable source=, <propaganda=, <judgment= and a lot of more.

This activity has been really important to start the project because it has allowed us to conceptualize the main topic of the project <critical thinking and fake news=, as we can read in this reflection: <I have developed my critical thinking, learnt on how to check the sources, do my own research, check which information I can trust, what is true and what is fake= (Anna from Poland). <Critical thinking is something that we always have been trying to do, being considerate to the participants (…) that all these [tools] will be useful for me professionally and personally [life]= (Tzevtan from Bulgaria)