Introduction
Is it really so hard for school to
perceive the tremendous change that is occurring around it nowadays? It seems
that it is afraid of admitting that it is too much for it to cope with the
change. All indicators point to the fact that the “new” teaching methods they
adopt have already been outdated. As long as we still keep teaching the kids
lessons they no longer feel like learning, we will never be able to ignite
curiosity in them so as to make them develop suitable critical thinking skills which
fit their digital era and their creativity inclination. They need to feel the
change at school; that change which is ravaging all old thinking processes and
concepts about learning. The generation Y have chosen to wear lenses that are
capable of piercing the invisible and discover more appealing learning
approaches. I bet students no longer wait for school to introduce them to
information and communication technology as they have gone a long deal already.
Shamelessly some schools still use old
teaching tools and methods in the era of tablets, Smartphones, phablets, tele-conferencing,
flipped classrooms and distance-education. They are not aware that apprenticeship
has enormously changed in material, content, theory, method, medium and
approaches. Schools look hesitating in tackling subjects that they were not
used to tackling because they are slow in acknowledging the shift in all
domains of knowledge including defining literacy. There are no such digitally
illiterate students today, but some schools are unfortunately.
Most of us would agree with Arthur
Schopenhauer’s words, “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident”. Well, I wonder why school is hesitating and doesn’t seize
the opportunity to start stimulating learners to be creative through thinking
differently but ingeniously. It should invade the new world and develop it
through developing the learners thinking skills. Some steps have been taken
already but they are still filled with incertitude and reluctance.
Incorporating critical thinking
concepts into high school curricula is not a choice, it is the only choice to
promote the students and help them develop thinking skills and abilities to be
ready for the unknown challenges of the future.
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