Log #3

The Solution for Media Chaos: Critical Thinking

Our group are going to discuss about the issue of media chaos. In addition to searching for the related information by myself, I also browse through my members’ logs and the articles that they share. I like one of the articles that Jay shares. It is about critical thinking.

There are many ways for us to get information in this modern age of advanced technology. How to distinguish information form right to wrong is a tough question. Basically, we should have the ability of critical thinking. Here is one of the pictures in the article. It shows the core skills for being critical.

First of all, people have different concepts to define the right or wrong information. Through different communication ways, people will have different ideas toward on things. As a consequence, there will be many versions of the same thing. I think we should learn one thing by ourselves but not by others. We should not follow others’ ideas, but develop our own ideas to increase the reading maturity. Second, those who know how to be wise for receiving information should teach others to question information. Not everyone knows what critical thinking exactly is. Many people will follow the mainstream that the most people believe. However, that kind of information is always not the truth. Wrong information is based on misunderstanding. We should be wise and teach others to be wise toward information.

With the advanced technology, we can learn a variety of information online. However, there is no one can guarantee the correctness. One of the solutions is critical thinking.

Social media make critical thinking critical

http://www.duperrin.com/english/2013/06/28/social-media-critical-thinking/