Raising Children’s Critical-Thinking Skills

Raising Children’s Critical-Thinking Skills

Shelly Smith

COM/515

Instructor: Jeanne Wilson

July 14, 2003





























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Raising Children’s Critical Thinking Skills

Introduction

This paper will discuss how technology can and has helped develop students’

critical-thinking skills through the use of Bloom’s Taxonomy, which when achieved,

enables higher-order thinking skills.

Body

When writing a paper on critical-thinking skills, you must first understand the

mix levels of learning according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Benjamin Bloom (Computimes

(Malaysia), 2001), created this taxonomy for categorizing levels of abstraction of

questions that commonly occur in educational settings. The taxonomy provides a useful

structure in which to categorize test questions. These levels are: 1. Knowledge,

observation and rec...