Online safety: Critical and Creative Thinking

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Critical and Creative Thinking

Students identify, explore and clarify online information and use that knowledge in a range of situations. They think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as critical reasoning, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation at school and in their lives beyond school. Students analyse problems, refine concepts and reflect on the decision-making process to make ethical decisions and take respectful action.

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Typically by the end of Year 10, students:

Identify and clarify information and ideas

clarify complex information and ideas drawn from a range of sources

Organise and process information

critically analyse independently sourced information to determine bias and reliability

Consider alternatives

speculate on creative options to modify ideas when circumstances change

Seek solutions and put ideas into action

assess risks and explain contingencies, taking account of a range of perspectives, when seeking solutions and putting complex ideas into action

Think about thinking (metacognition)

give reasons to support their thinking, and address opposing viewpoints and possible weaknesses in their own positions

Reflect on processes

balance rational and irrational components of a complex or ambiguous problem to evaluate evidence

Apply logic and reasoning

analyse reasoning used in finding and applying solutions, and in choice of resources

Draw conclusions and design a course of action

use logical and abstract thinking to analyse and synthesise complex information to inform a course of action

Evaluate procedures and outcomes

evaluate the effectiveness of ideas, products and performances and implement courses of action to achieve desired outcomes against criteria they have identified

Typically by the end of Year 10, students:

Identify and clarify information and ideas

clarify complex information and ideas drawn from a range of sources

Organise and process information

critically analyse independently sourced information to determine bias and reliability

Consider alternatives

speculate on creative options to modify ideas when circumstances change

Seek solutions and put ideas into action

assess risks and explain contingencies, taking account of a range of perspectives, when seeking solutions and putting complex ideas into action

Think about thinking (metacognition)

give reasons to support their thinking, and address opposing viewpoints and possible weaknesses in their own positions

Reflect on processes

balance rational and irrational components of a complex or ambiguous problem to evaluate evidence

Apply logic and reasoning

analyse reasoning used in finding and applying solutions, and in choice of resources

Draw conclusions and design a course of action

use logical and abstract thinking to analyse and synthesise complex information to inform a course of action

Evaluate procedures and outcomes

evaluate the effectiveness of ideas, products and performances and implement courses of action to achieve desired outcomes against criteria they have identified