TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical thinking tools – the CRAP test
AU - Mitchell, Pru
N1 - For two months now fake news has been the news. It has taken a particular level of blatancy to get the topic of critical thinking and information literacy into mainstream media. This culminated in the Oxford Dictionaries nominating post-truth as its 2016 word of the year.
PY - 2017/1/16
Y1 - 2017/1/16
N2 - How can educators help students to develop the skills they need to evaluate information? Critical thinking ‘involves students learning to recognise or develop an argument, use evidence in support of that argument, draw reasoned conclusions, and use information to solve problems,’ (ACARA, 2016). The ability to ‘critically analyse information and ideas from a range of sources’ appears across subject areas. Knowing which sources, news and information we can trust is a fundamental element of information literacy. This article highlights Wikipedia as a trusted source of facts, and uses the CRAP test (Currency, Reliability, Authority and Purpose) to guide students in evaluating a Wikipedia article.
AB - How can educators help students to develop the skills they need to evaluate information? Critical thinking ‘involves students learning to recognise or develop an argument, use evidence in support of that argument, draw reasoned conclusions, and use information to solve problems,’ (ACARA, 2016). The ability to ‘critically analyse information and ideas from a range of sources’ appears across subject areas. Knowing which sources, news and information we can trust is a fundamental element of information literacy. This article highlights Wikipedia as a trusted source of facts, and uses the CRAP test (Currency, Reliability, Authority and Purpose) to guide students in evaluating a Wikipedia article.
KW - Critical thinking
KW - Evaluation of sources
KW - Information literacy
KW - Wikipedia
M3 - Article
JO - Teacher Magazine
JF - Teacher Magazine
ER -