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Index
How to Explore an Issue Fairly
- 10 Ways You Are Ensuring Fair and Clear Thinking
- 10 Criteria for Fairness with Video
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10 Ways You Are Ensuring Fair and Clear Thinking
Many of the "Exploring the Issues" activities (Activity
2) in the lessons help you to develop your skills to think about issues
with clear, fair thinking—"critical thinking." For example,
notice how you are developing these skills:
- Reading with good comprehension so as to develop background knowledge.
- Making relevant connections.
- Hypothesizing, but not jumping to conclusions.
- Distinguishing logical relationships from fallacious reasoning.
- Looking at each issue from different perspectives-for and against
and in between.
- Evaluating the reliability of sources and information.
- Questioning all sources, including the textbook and the course
materials.
- Distinguishing bias from a viewpoint expressed in a way that is appropriate
to the kind of communication.
- Drawing reasonable inferences.
- Interpreting visual information (photos, maps, graphs, posters, political
cartoons, diagrams, etc.) in an informed way.
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topics and get deeper into issues, you may want to also take further
your skills in being fair in your communication about issues, as well
as in recognizing fairness in the media. In this course, we have mainly
dealt with words and images on the printed page, but video images
are all around most of us on TV, in the movies, and on the Internet.
Try using the following checklist, "10 Criteria for Fairness
with Video," when you are viewing or creating video images. |
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