HOT Skills by Steffen Saifer

Author:Steffen Saifer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781605545578
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2018-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

There are, of course, many other types of deceptive statements. The ability to parse these fallacies depends on the ability to recognize them. With teacher-guided practice, even very young learners can begin to develop these abilities. Brain baits is one teaching technique for doing this in an enjoyable way.

COGNITIVITY: BRAIN BAITS

“This is the story of Goldilocks and the Three Gorillas.” Brain baits, such as this one, create cognitive dissonance in a playful way. Our minds have a strong and immediate need to resolve the dissonance, thus triggering MOT skills such as A/D thinking. Cognitive dissonance can be created by telling a blatantly false or intentionally misleading comment, which teachers can easily and quickly slip into lessons or discussions, as in the Goldilocks example given previously. But brain baits can also be connected to content learning and be more subtle and complex as students gain skills and become more sophisticated thinkers. Because they require students to catch and correct errors, brain baits help them learn to parse deceptive statements.

There is an example of a teacher using brain baits with the story of Henny Penny in the SnapsHOT Is the Sky Falling? The story is essentially about problems caused by the thinking error of jumping to conclusions, especially in believing an outlandish statement because the messenger instills fear and creates stress. Henny Penny doesn’t do this intentionally; she really believes the sky is falling. But appealing to fear and using scare tactics are common deceptions used intentionally by advertisers, politicians, and others. The teacher reinforces the lessons of the story and helps the children practice parsing with brain baits. When a paper falls from the wall, she shouts, “The ceiling is falling!” She then helps them identify the thinking error and refute it with incisive questions, visual evidence, and deductive thinking.

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