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of Filipino Students
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Section 22
November 2019
thinking, and current problems Filipinos students facing specifically in their critical
thinking skills, to create and suggest a plan of actions to help students with their problems
and also be able to give tips to further develop their skills in critical thinking. This paper
was created to give importance and awareness as to why students should develop their
critical thinking skills to be able to face complex problems that they would face in the
Purpose/Introduction:
evaluation and form a judgment to an issue, and it is important for a student to learn
to Critically think, most importantly for us Filipino students, the purpose of this paper
is to find out the awareness or knowledge towards what is Critical thinking, and to
make them future-ready to face different complex problems, and to identify if Filipino
important for students, students who are not curious can be easily discouraged to
learn because of the lack of interest because they are not curiosity. Critical thinking
also helps their problem-solving skills, as students who can critically think tends to
different complex problem they could face in the future. these are only a few of the
aware of the importance of critical thinking skills, however, students are facing
problems that are hindering them from developing their critical thinking skills.
Critical thinking is one of the most important skills for a student to learn, according
to Sosnowski (N.D.), in our era today students are always exposed to multiple standardized
tests, which often require students to read different books do assignments and have the
ability to recall the ideas without retaining the information beyond the exam, some
educational frameworks suggest that in order to achieve deeper learning, we must focus on
Doyle (2019) states “What is critical thinking? Critical thinking refers to the
involves the evaluation of sources, such as data, facts, observable phenomena, and
research finding.” (Doyle, 2018) following Doyle’s quote, Good critical thinkers
have the ability to draw and create reasonable conclusions from the different sets of
information and be able to discriminate which are useful and less useful details in
critical thinking, because in learning it requires interpretation and integration of the new
learnings of a student, then it's different practical uses for application, which are all
necessary in whenever they encounter novel situations, problems that have different
conditions and also when there is given innovative opportunities, opportunity to innovate
Critical thinking is vital to a students education, but their problems that arise that
causes students failure further develop their critical thinking skills, based on an article by
Lugtu (2018) that’s there’s already a decline in critical thinking of Filipino students, the
Philippines ranked 16th most ignorant country, ignorant on situations like their countries
key issues according to Lugtu, he also stated that this problem started way back the Spanish
colonial era, throughout the history of Philippines until Martial law, and until present day.
(Lugtu, 2018)
On Lugtu (2018) article states that the problems roots are in our educational system
we have today, specifically in the rote memorization, rote memorization is learning through
repetition in order for the student to memorize or recall, examples of this present in classes
is the graded recitations and examinations which rewards students who memorize their
lessons, which only make students recall information temporarily in their brains. According
continuous decline of critical thinking, one of the biggest reasons for why is this occurring
is because of the development of the different technologies like smartphones, social media,
and video games which now plays a bigger role of children, teenagers, and students daily
A study created by Patricia Greenfield but was not specifically stated by Lugtu
(2018) on what the name of study is, but based on Lugut’s idea on the study that it revealed
that learners of today have changed their way on how they expose their selves to these
modern technologies, it changed them to the point wherein their critical thinking skills and
These are the problems that are concerned with Filipino students facing today, educational
systems that are not focusing on developing students critical thinking ability, and to add to
this the invention of technologies is also worsening the state of students and not helping
their ability to critical think, yes these technologies has its positives and negatives in
helping students, but in areas like developing one's critical thinking skills it does not help
the students.
There many different ways or solutions to fix the different problems that students
of today are facing with critical thinking. in continuation of the article of Lugtu (2018), he
also stated a possible solution to the problem. Yes there is a solution, but it’s a long term
solution according to Lugtu, this is what he is saying, Critical thinking plays a crucial role
to young people, our educational system, both the public and private, needs to develop
instructors, professors, teachers who could teach by Reflective thinking, that allows the
students to use their minds and raise their questions and opinions, in order to create and
explore more different possibilities and scenarios, and let the students engage in more
substantive discussions and debate. And also for parents should let their children develop
programs, and instilling discipline to their children on using their gadgets. (Lugtu, 2018)
Sosnowski (N.D.) also stated activities that would help middle schoolers and also
high schoolers to develop their critical thinking skills, according to her article for middle
schoolers, to develop their critical thinking skills by the use of everyday situations invite
them to discuss or create a discussion out of those situations, this situations maybe the
different advertisements that they see on print materials or maybe the TV, analyze the
methods of persuasion used and the point of view of the advertisements, same with
figures (Sosnowski, N.D.), for the high schoolers, to develop their skills in critical thinking.
By studying their textbooks and creating classroom activities in conjunction with those
establish their own side or position on the author's claim. Also, a good way of practicing
critical thinking skills is through debate, by giving classroom debates it gives the
opportunity for the student to give their opinion and their pros and cons on an issue. these
are some of the activities that She suggests to develop student's critical thinking skills.
(Sosnowski, N.D)
Conclusion:
however students are facing problems that is hindering them from developing their critical
thinking skills, as the paper discuss we could see how important and necessary it is for a
student to develop their critical thinking skills in order for them solve different complex
problems, paper also discussed about the current problems that students are facing like for
example technologies and the educational system (Lugtu, 2018), and to fix the problems
we must encourage the students to use their minds, to analyze, to form opinions of their
own, as Lugtu (2018) and (Sosnowski, N.D.) has suggested, to create activities that would
help students develop their critical thinking skills, given that it is important for a student to
have critical thinking for the different applications of it in education ("Why Everyone
Needs Critical Thinking", N.D.). encourage the students to think further and deeper, to
make the students curious because learning doesn't stop in school it could also be applied
in real-life situations
References:
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Sosnowski, J. (N.D.). Developing Critical thinking skills in Middle school & High
thinking-skills-middle-school-high-school-students-3738.html
Doyle, A. (2019, October 6). Critical thinking definition, skills, and examples.
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https://insightassessment.com/article/why-everyone-needs-critical-thinking
Lugtu, R. (2018, March 8). The Decline of critical thinking. Retrieved from
https://www.manilatimes.net/2018/03/08/business/columnists-business/the-decline-of-
critical-thinking/384799/