Critical Thinking as a Key Competency

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10.2991/icassr-15.2016.69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

critical thinking, media literacy, media education, new media, teaching methods

Abstract

This paper focuses on the key competency of critical thinking and the perception of this competency as a basic building block of media literacy. It operates with the terms media education, media literacy, critical thinking and new media. It also covers the inclusion of media education in international documents. It focuses on the role of new media in the process of building critical thinking competency and on technical methods that reinforce this competency. The aim of the paper is to emphasize the urgent need to form the critical thinking competency and analyse the possibilities of raising the media literacy and critical thinking by implementing new media and communication technologies into teaching. The paper analyses also the possibilities of using the activating methods in the teaching process.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dana Petranová
AU  - Monika Hossová
PY  - 2016/08
DA  - 2016/08
TI  - Critical Thinking as a Key Competency
BT  - Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 241
EP  - 245
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icassr-15.2016.69
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