Critical thinking and analysis 

1a. Critical thinking Part 1 Class video presentation (14:28 mins)

Video presentation for students prepared by Dr Shashi Nallaya. Covers the definition and purpose of critical thinking is, the skills involved and gives examples of critical analysis. 

This presentation, and the presentations below, can be shown to students as a video, or as an interactive online presentation, which can be controlled by the student. The students watch the presentation on 'players' which allow them to move forward or back through the slides, progress at their own speed, annotate or highlight individual slides, and search the text. (See more information). 

Watch the video in the Panopto viewer (It will open in a new browser window, and you may need to log in with your UniSA login details). 

Give this link to a class to watch individually (more information): https://unisa.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c90a18e0-5a46-4d30-bab9-aa720035be97 You can also download the presentation (50 MB) as a video file from this link (more information). 

Download the slides (you can adjust them to suit your class) (247 KB)

Give students an interactive online presentation (you can adjust them to suit your class) (12.5 MB) (See more information)

1b. Critical thinking Part 2 Class video presentation (3:27 mins)

Video presentation for students prepared by Dr Shashi Nallaya (continuation of the presentation above). Presents an activity in which the student works through an activity asking them to critically analyse an article. 

Watch the video in the Panopto viewer (It will open in a new browser window, and you may need to log in with your UniSA login details). 

Give this link to a class to watch individually (more information): https://unisa.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=83910b54-c8af-4abe-9399-aa72003624ba  You can also download the presentation (13 MB) as a video file from this link (more information). 

Download the slides (you can adjust them to suit your class) ( 247 KB)

Give students an interactive online presentation (4.3 MB) (See more information)

2. Critical thinking and analysis Class presentation (9:56 mins)

Video presentation for students prepared by Dr Shashi Nallaya. Covers the process of critical thinking and reasoning. It lists questions which are appropriate for analysis, and looks at an example. 

Watch the video in the Panopto viewer (It will open in a new browser window, and you may need to log in with your UniSA login details). 

Give this link to a class to watch individually (more information): https://unisa.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fca9ae4a-2c82-4160-b2d1-aa7200368be5  You can also download the presentation (29 MB) as a video file from this link (more information). 

Download the slides (you can adjust them to suit your class) ( 359 KB)

Download the script (you can adjust to suit your class) ( 26 KB) 

Give students an interactive online presentation ( 7 MB) (See more information)

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