{"id":2711,"date":"2020-02-12T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T15:19:13","slug":"mtv-creating-a-culture-of-critical-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2020\/02\/mtv-creating-a-culture-of-critical-thinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV: Creating a Culture of Critical Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Do the reading by Friday. We’re going to talk about it in class, so be prepared.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know about you, but this was a sentence that was frequently said in my high school science courses. Of course I did the reading, but come Friday, I had nothing to say about it, and neither did any of my classmates. When our teacher asked us to make some comment about the 25 pages we read from the textbook about endothermic and exothermic reactions, we weren’t even able to make something up. There were multiple reasons we didn’t have anything to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • We weren’t at all engaged with the text<\/li>
  • We didn’t understand what we were reading<\/li>
  • We weren’t thinking, nor did we know how to begin to think about what we were reading<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    However, if my science teachers had used strategies that make thinking visible, I may have had a completely different experience in high school science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Why Use MTV Strategies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    There are many reasons that MTV strategies should be used in the classroom. For starters, it is a way to engage students, vary classroom routines, and allow even the most quiet students to express their thoughts. However, one of the most important reasons to use MTV strategies is to get students to learn how to think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Sounds kind of silly, I know, but in our schooling system students often don’t learn how to think. They don’t learn how to make connections, ask questions, look for bias, or interact with text and media in a meaningful way. By using strategies that make thinking visible, we are giving students strategies that allow them to practice these meaningful interactions in hopes of developing more critical thinkers and learners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In this Ted Talk, Jesse Richardson gives his own opinion about what it means to teach students how<\/em> to think rather than what<\/em> to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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