Encourage critical thinking with 3 questions | Brian Oshiro | TEDxXiguan 

1. What + explain= WHY 2. Make a connection with the Why (i.e how does this effect me?) 3. Solve with a HOW (i.e how do you know?)

Parents can help their children become critical thinkers. Bedtime stories are great but they are even better if they are interactive with parental questions. At the end of each page, ask the child: what do you think happens next? Which character would you like to be? Why do you think she would make that choice? What would you do instead? Make it a game and it can be fun. Asking their opinion is important to building a sense that their opinion matters.

Questions are the easiest way to change our opinion of something. 🔥

I am researching critical thinking heavily for an upcoming podcast. I see here a 'continuum'. First ask for declarative knowledge only. Secondly, ask for advanced declarative knowledge. And finally, ask for advanced critical thinking. So this seems to me to be the timbre of learning. One must go through these steps of learning that parallel Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. First we have basic declarative knowledge. Then we have more advanced knowledge. And finally, we have thoughts of our own. I was researching this because I think critical thinking is THE ONLY SOLUTION for our dying civilization.

Your speech is so straight to the point, and done so elaborately; yet, in such way everything every aspiring learner needs to know is highlighted. There are numerous other lectures but this one comes right at the top of my favourite because it doesn't muck about and, again, everything every aspiring learner needs to know (fundamentally) is highlighted here. The world has much hope with good minds such as yourself Mr Oshiro!

i am not only learning from this video. i am also learning from the comments. thank you!

Year 9 teacher... have always heard the order of What, Why, How....but it has never been explained this clearly! Thank you!

Ecourage CRITICAL RESEARCH to go Along with Critical Thinking! Lets Teach our kids where to find valuable information and who to trust. Thinking doesn't get you very far if you also lack resources.

Such questions will help the student to be open minded and broaden their approach towards answering questions. Makes complete sense

Thank god for my father If it wasn’t for him and his constant debates with me I’d be a vegetable by now. So grateful for him

HANDS DOWN!!! FROM THE START TILL THE END, IT'S VERY INFORMATIVE AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT GIVES ME THE MOTIVATION TO BE A CRTICAL THINKER!!! SALUTE!!!

Its really wonderful to learn this, we as teachers we have a work to do in order to fit with the changing world. Thanks.

I am a private teacher.I have been doing this for one year. Without knowing that this is also a great way... Thanks sir for sharing

This video is underrated I think. Very good and applicable. Thank you! 👍❤

Very interesting presentation!! Thanks Mr. Oshiro for this powerful teaching and learning suggestions.

Congrats Sir, I totally agree with all the information you give in your talk. In the same lines with what you have in mind.

Wonderful video of my life. Now i am in right direction of learning. Thank you sir👏👍

This was one of the very few TED Talks I enjoyed.

Magic words: What - gives content, Why - gives the idea about origin of content, How - talks about the ways we can use that content..

Thank you Mr. Oshiro for an informative presentation. I can use the information now.

The best speaker for me till today ... now I m in golden age . Thank you so much Dear Sir

Great insights. Helped me understand a key concept. Thank you.

Boym I loved this and it is very helpful to hear. Thank you for the time you took to prepare this and strategies you provided.

This was fascinating and something I was never aware of …and I’m 70 with a degree in law! This has opened a whole new approach to learning for me….A few years ago I was a tutor and was shocked by the way students either didn’t know basic things or if they thought they did that what they were taught was “right” and therefore anyone who didn’t accept their version of facts was clearly wrong. I was aware then there was a problem in our, UK, schools .

I’m going to use this for my advanced listening and speaking ESL class as an intro to the course! Thank you.

Great contribution. !! Thank you so much !!

Very informative. I love all the insight. I will definitely use these tips in both personal life and as a Teacher.

This is amazing, thank you. I will apply asking high order questions in my studies :)

Excellent explanation and not only for children but many adults as well !!!

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for a wonderful talk. Lots to think about.

Teach students to ask, 1. What is the premise of the question? 2. Does the question make assumptions or assert something to be true without evidence? 3. Does the question ask the right thing, and was there a better question? 4. Can the question be interpreted in more than one way? 5. Does the question led you to an answer and if so, should you think about other possible answers and questions? 6. Does the questioner have a hidden agenda? 7. Who benefits and who pays from the answer being true?

Unless exam-focused education system is changed, it's very difficult for teachers to incorporate these approaches in class. Perhaps, the education system needs to adapt a critical thinking component in their curriculum.

Bravo 👏🏾 Xiguan is brilliant! 👁

Starting from 9:07 is what ya looking for.

School need to help realize failure is okay, current system is build upon fear. Fear of misunderstanding. Fear of being the least smart an unimportant which leads to no questions being asked. And slapped with a grade saying “try harder”. When in actuality most student don’t know how yet. Say “what didn’t you understand” instead.

Good sharing ☺️🙏! Thanks in advance.

I’ve been doing this in China for 10 years and did it in USA for 4 years plus college. The students resented it and the administration supported the students. Maybe I’m just bad at it but I’ve never been in an environment that supports this, because let’s face it, it takes more time and reduces exam scores in the short term. So. Love to hear your comments

Took some time to get there in this vid but the first 2 questions are brilliant. The 3rd - maybe less so - I would add - between 2 and 3 - Is this solvable? before going onto - How could you go about solving it? Because the 3rd question to me would put people on the spot and make people come up with answers rather than thinking about the problem.

Critical thinking helps us with? - Analysis - Problem Solving - Decision Making - Proving a Point - Conflict Management

brilliant!

Summary:- how to make our teachers better ?how to encourage creative thinking ? How to put knoweledge to use ? I look for types of questions teachers ask. Ask questions about theconsequences of a topic. Ask questions with more than one correct answer to engage creativity ! How to support critical thinking in school by asking deep questions ?

This must be adopted as the new paradigm for humanity.

Excellent

Thanks Sir

from now on anything i stare at for longer than 3 secons i have to come up with 3 questions on the spot to build the habit and so i can better track how im feeling throughout the day. Over time ill ask better and better questions until I can learn thingss relatively easily.

You nailed it.🙌

This video should be mandatory for teacher training. He manages to simplify a very complex skill set. My question (as a teacher) is, how do we cater for ELL students in this case? For the examples given, they need to first understand the knowledge before they can move on to higher-order thinking skills.

Honestly in today society, it’s ridiculous to blame teachers for not promoting critical thinking. A lot of teachers do try to promote critical thinking, but the problem is simply society and its vicious circle that makes it impossible. So why can teachers can’t promote critical thinking, because they lack time, meaning if they ask an open ended question in an exam, with the increasingly numbers of students per class to satisfy schools tight budget, it would take a lot of time to correct them properly. Same for asking the questions in class, if you have an audience of 20-25 like back in the day, you can tailor the needs of students and have as many answers as possible, nowadays in high school, you could have classes of 40-50 and uni you could even have classes of 300, which teaching every students is impossible. Then, you could start broadening the scope and blame the parents for not teaching critical thinking, which nowadays both parents work 40-60 hours a week instead of having a stay at home mom. How do you get time to teach kids critical thinking and values, when society pushes towards constant capitalistic growth by milking all the time of everyone. Working more to pay a nanny, which causes more traffic in a macro view, which causes more lost time, more damages on infrastructure, more taxes, less funding for education = vicious circle

U.S citizen that's going to inform on the Traditional School Systems here: We know what it would take to make better schools and students. We've suggested this for decades. If anything, they make the schools worse each time they try! The info in this video is good and useful, however the problem lies with the system!! We can talk about suggestive ways to make things better, but it's up to the actual governments to hold their end of the bargain. I can recall countless times through hundreds of people's situations & my own, where no matter how much we tried, the worse they made it. You can work at a gas station and by the end of the year you probably made as much or more than a teacher. Our teachers actually pay for most supplies out of their own pockets and nowadays they can't even get reimbursed for it. They're overworked, overstressed, less support, no finances, constantly derailed by parents and or the school system itself, etc. I can think of 15 people off the top of my head that blatantly refused to leave their field, did, and swore to never go back! I left my prior field of 16 yrs+ due to corruption/false propaganda pushed. Hopefully other countries will do it better!

After almost 25 years teaching in China and with a strong focus on critical thinking in all subjects, you have given me an excellent framework. Thank you ... but where were you in the year 2000? 😒🥸 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Good - this is climbing up Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognition pyramid. It's a lot of work to exhibit charisma in teaching, which is what many/most people seek in their instructor. To have the material down pat and bring a vision and meaning to the subject. It takes real world experience with the subject as well, to have a sense of nuance.

Good point. Next step is skeptical thinking.

•Improving critical thinking with adding up to “What” -> ”Why” -> “How”Understanding the good use of the information

I’m plugging my video “The Problem with Critical Thinking: tools for the moral antagonist” for anyone interested. Looking for opinions from critical thinkers and scholars. I don't see much on this subject for the anarchist or conscientious objector. This is purely for intellectual achievement. Thank you.

Thank you

Yup on point

When I don’t know is the answer! Why don’t you know is the Question!

Doesn’t this sound familiar!? Sure heard this in another TED talk somewhere else years ago

Misleading title and talk should have been half as long. Good talk otherwise, not too boring.

LEGENDA PORTUGUÊS !!!!!!

I have always said that education is a triad, meaning that it requires concerted (and orchestrated) effort between parents, teachers, and students. But I think it requires community engagement too. Like they say, "It takes a village to raise a child."

You drag this thing on longer than needed.

What causes earthquake? Maybe we can try solving this question with the technique discussed in the video..

I literally can’t agree more with what the speaker is trying to convey to us. It’s way too clear that Society is calling for more critical thinkers in order to make innovation and creation happen. What’s sad is that the schools, the teachers and the students seem to be trapped in content with tackling questions that are simple, straightforward, and barely intellectually demanding. In the short run, it’s true that we can feel the convenience. Nonetheless, our idleness will backfire in the end for sure.

All of the people angry about the content are completely missing the point and unfortunately losing a valuable learning opportunity for our generations kids. I was the student who was always behind. Not for lack of intelligence, but in an inability to express what I knew. It took my teachers understanding the above to re-evaluate how they tested me and they soon found that the student who would stare blankly at a white sheet of paper on the verge of tears could adeptly answer almost everything asked verbally and in many instances excelled beyond the majority of my other classmates. TAKE TOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES AND PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF THE KIDS WHO ARE STRUGGLING PLEASE SEE THAT WE NEED NEW APPROACHES WHEN IT COMES TO LEARNING. my god the speaker may as well have just used “is the sky blue” vs “why is the sky blue” (it’s not but whatever) since that seems to be one of the few things people won’t argue to the death about.

Por favor subtitulos en español, gracias

does anybody know any organisations who run something like an 'after-school' club or extra-curricular that deals with thinking skills?

I am a student and I really loved this video, my brain felt the 200 IQ potency.

Bloom taxonomy appropriated but not accredited. A question of intellectual integrity.

The bottom squiggle is hyperbolic; the tangle isn't usually that massive for people as they figure ways to a solution. What are the variables connected to the exaggeration? You could turn this A to B line into a lesson itself.

We need quality teachers. We cannot increase critical thinking if teachers are NOT critical thinkers who take teaching seriously. Just look at the controversy over critical race theory, which has nothing to do with race or making some people feel bad about themselves.

Hope yall taking notes

So the Queen Mother question: how can we change this? By learning to be independent, critical thinkers and likewise understanding the imperative to work together.

The theory is good, clear and easy to use, but I doubt that U.S. are superior on those technique. In my domain the technique used is just study questions and answers then go for the exam.

Need this to teach my brother because school doesn't:/

Scientists & mathematicians are the most open minded critical thinkers on earth. Their work demands it.

11:30 Connect this fact to something in your real life! Voila.

这条信息非常有用。。

The best question: How do you know. However the idea to ask emotional based questions in order to promote empathy in the context fact based questions (while assuming human based climate change is genuine) is simply wrong. But if you're going to ask "why not" then be honest and ask "why not might the "deniers" be right?

speechless.

How about FIRST questioning: why do you think anything is wrong with Western formal education? Why should public school education change? Why not demand that lawyers, police, judges, and their complex myriads of laws & red tape question the value of all their laws & which ones they need & how much? Why not demand free market capitalists & businesses change?

I have personally witnessed (through my college education) the misuse of the the type B (what are the 3 causes) by the local professors, by making those "filter" or "barrier" questions during the exams. I.e. what are the 35 , that resulted not in any critical thinking, but rather memorizing facts out of context, just so the students could pass the exam.

thinking is just asking and answering questions inside your mind. Stop thinking and start doing!

Surely for critical thinking, the first question should be is there climate change rather than beginning from the assumption that there is.

How can we teach kids to question?

09:35

Qns C is the type of question that would come up in exams....

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Quantitative data versus qualitative data

Parents can help child to be a critical thinkers.

Should not critical thinking encourage students to respectfully analyze whether or not the premise is true. In other words should not both sides of the issue be analyzed and pros and cons addressed.

what is the meaning of life

After those 15 years of intensive critical inquiry, do you feel you're ready to take on this unpaid barista internship? Let's do this!

Brasil

question C is too directive, the more neutral question good for education is " Why do some claims that climate change is the biggest crisis or hoax facing this generation? " if you ask the C question as is, it is susceptible to bias. You should encourage critical thinking and research, and 3 questions are not enough. who, what, where, when, why, and how should all be ask and answered for a complete objective truth.

interesting

The problem with this lecture is that it assumes developing critical thinking ability is a goal of schools.

Nah, bro was spittin

Nice