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Teacher�to Teacher

Reflections on thinking & learning

bit.ly//TLD18-Teacher

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

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Teaching Critical Thinking

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

Thank you, Peggy

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Contributor to integrated active mind

… to responsible citizen

Why Critical Thinking?

Critical Thinking

Creative Thinking

Design Thinking

Ecological Thinking

Other

Thinking

Integrated

Active Mind

Thinking

Learning

Being & Acting

Responsible Engaged Citizen

Literacies

Intelligences

Community connection

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

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“21c” Standards

Investigative

Explorers

Innovative

Problem

Solvers

Creative�Communicators

Versatile�Readers

Critical�Thinkers

Resourceful�Learners

Colorado Core: Paths to

21^st Century Success –

bit.ly/21cSuccess

Inquire

Include

Collaborate

Engage

Explore

Curate

Think

Share

Grow

Create

Shared Foundations

Domains

AASL: Framework for Learners –

bit.ly/LearnerStandards2017

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Critical – analyzing; making meaning

Media – platforms; messages

Inquiry – study of phenomena

Questions & found objects
Argument & rhetoric analysis
Curation of rhetorical strategies

Example – ISIS Political Jamming

Critical Media Inquiry

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

Using QFT –

bit.ly/LearningToQuestion-TLD2013

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Argument analysis – “ERC” Taxonomy
Rhetoric analysis

Logos / Pathos / Ethos
Language of Persuasion
Visual arguments

Learning journals… Digital…
Goal attainment scaling

Thinking & Learning Tools

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

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Argument Analysis – “ERC”

Evidence

Analysis

Reasoning

Claim

Argument

Data

bit.ly/ArgumentAnalysis

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Visual Arguments

Analytical “distance” �& play

Rhetoric Analysis

bit.ly/LanguageOfPersuasion

”Media messages… use a variety of techniques to grab our attention, to establish credibility and trust, to stimulate desire for the product or policy, and to motivate us to act…”

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Goal Attainment Scaling – rubric over time

Article duplicated at bit.ly/Goal Monitor

“…personalize learning …share ownership

of the goal-setting and assessment process…”

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Thinking/Being

Learning

Community

Global Population

2 bil.

10 bil.

1800

2200

Just in Time Standards

…we hope…

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

Share of Income – top 10%

1970

Share of Income – top 1%

1970

Av’g Global Temp: 1860-2015

Merely one degree!...

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Homo Deus

Harari - “…humans are trying to upgrade themselves into gods…”

Kalmon School of BFO

Three standards

Thinking/Feeling/Being
Learning
Community

Essential for survival

Harari – Homo Deus – must read for people who want to formulate – or strengthen - a really skeptical view of our species and its evolutionary journey.

21^st century about humans seeking to achieve three un-natural goals – to be godlike…

Live forever (barring mayhem… im-mortal…) – Cybernetics; Genetics;
Be happy (in a fulfilling way) – Freedom; Eudaimonia; Choice & Opportunity
Have super-powers – mental hyperstates; cybernetics;

Presented in a good-news/bad-news way… first, some good news, then a lot of really bad news… then some wan hope…

Cybernetics – studying the interface between biological and artificial … what I’ve always thought…

Collins English dictionary (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cybernetics) sez:

The American version - Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developingmachines that do things or think like people.

The British version - the branch of science concerned with controlsystems in electronic and mechanical devices and the extentto which useful comparisons can be made between man-made and biological systems

But Wikipedia sez…

Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary ^[1] approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities. Norbert Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as "the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine."^[2] In the 21st century, the term is often used in a rather loose way to imply "control of any system using technology." In other words, it is the scientific study of how humans, animals and machines control and communicate with each other.

Concepts studied by cyberneticists include, but are not limited to: learning, cognition, adaptation, social control, emergence, convergence, communication, efficiency, efficacy, and connectivity. In cybernetics these concepts (otherwise already objects of study in other disciplines such as biology and engineering) are abstracted from the context of the specific organism or device.

The word cybernetics comes from Greek κυβερνητική (cybernēticḗ), meaning "governance", i.e., all that are pertinent to κυβερνάω (cybernáō), the latter meaning "to steer, navigate or govern", hence κυβέρνησις (cybérnēsis), meaning "government", is the government while κυβερνήτης (cybernḗtēs) is the governor or "helmperson" of the "ship".

Studies in cybernetics provide a means for examining the design and function of any system, including social systems such as business management and organizational learning, including for the purpose of making them more efficient and effective. Fields of study which have influenced or been influenced by cybernetics include game theory, system theory (a mathematical counterpart to cybernetics), perceptual control theory, sociology, psychology (especially neuropsychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology), philosophy, architecture, and organizational theory.^[6] System dynamics, originated with applications of electrical engineering control theory to other kinds of simulation models (especially business systems) by Jay Forrester at MIT in the 1950s, is a related field.

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If not us…

If not now…

Acts of Leadership

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Sapiens (2015) and Homo Deus (2017), by Yuval Noah Harari – “humans…gods” quotation on p. 43
Good to Great (2001) and Good to Great and the Social Sectors (2005), by Jim Collins
Thinking Fast and Slow (2016), by Daniel Kahneman
The People’s Platform (2014), by Astra Taylor

Images and Graphics in Presentation

Build Your Brain - https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/the-importance-of-teaching-critical-thinking (accessed 2-20-18)
Taxonomy of Cognition – https://www.knowatom.com/blog/topic/higher-order-thinking (2-19-18)
Social Media Usage – https://www.mediavisioninteractive.com/case-studies/mediavision-content-marketing-pr/ (12-29-17)
8 Things - https://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/3586 (2-21-18) - taken from The Innovator’s Mindset (2015), by George Couros
Minimal Warming – https://twitter.com/NRO/status/676516015078039556 (2-19-18)
Income Inequality, Top 1% – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_income_inequality_in_the_United_States (2-19-18)
Income Inequality, Top 10% – https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/12/12/a-foolish-take-americas-growing-income-inequality/108303078/ (2-19-18)
Singularity - https://sociable.co/technology/artificial-intelligence-singularity/ (2-21-18) – image copyright – othertees.com
Robot Master – https://www.gq.com/story/robots-and-singularity (2-19-18)
Global Population – http://www.economist.com/node/718860 (2-19-18)
Volleyball at Manzanar – https://www.loc.gov/item/2002695993/ (2-20-18)
Verbal Abuse – https://youtu.be/Z7YAd0Cx6XE?t=165 (2-20-18)
Border Detention Center – https://www.gettyimages.com/event/border-patrol-houses-unaccompanied-minors-in-detention-center-521749117#/boy-from-honduras-watches-a-movie-at-a-detention-facility-run-by-the-picture-id458329272 (2-20-18)
Three/Four - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd5hqvdgPiI/?taken-by=bryanridgley (2-20-18)
Sample Goal Attainment Scale – http://bit.ly/Goal Monitor (2-20-18)

Reading & Viewing

Stevan Kalmon

February 2018

skalmon@gmail.com

bit.ly//TLD18-Teacher

Student Videos

ISIS Political Jamming - https://youtu.be/9XDB2AYmnhw

Visual Arguments - https://youtu.be/Z7YAd0Cx6XE?

(Not a COM1010 student)