Fake News: Fact & Fiction - Episode 6: How to be a critical thinker
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- With fake news all around us, the ability to critically analyse the things we see and read and to distinguish what is real or fake has never been more important! But, how can you be a critical thinker? Find out more while you improve your English listening and vocabulary. Are you good at critical thinking? Join the conversation 👇👇👇
Key vocabulary
✔️spin - the presentation of, for example, negative information in a positive way
✔️to cherry-pick - to use only the details that support your view and ignore other information
✔️bias - a belief that something is good or bad which is not based on evidence
✔️critical thinking - the skill of looking at information objectively, without bias, prejudice or spin
✔️a sceptic / skeptic - someone who uses logic and evidence rather than emotion when judging information
✔️gullible (adj) easily tricked or deceived because you believe uncritically what you see or hear
✔️media literacy - awareness of the modern media environment and how information and disinformation are spread
This programme was first published on our website in 2020.
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Episode 1: What does 'fake' really mean? 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 2: Where does 'news' come from? 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 3: Information or disinformation? 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 4: Fake news in the age of coronavirus 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 5: Why do people share fake news? 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 6: How to be a critical thinker 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 7: Can you trust online images? 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
Episode 8: Don't get caught out! 👉 • Fake News: Fact & Fict...
And click here for our study skills video on critical thinking 👉 • Study Skills - How to ...
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In Iran cause of their political management don't teach our kids critical thinking. teach us towards their goals and filter the resources we learn to be mindful
These have been perfect times to talk about "bias"......
Indeed best English source for English learners on the internet. Thanks, mates!
Thanks BBC, From time to time, I cherry - pick information and fall in bias. I am preparing for being a critical thinker using accurate sources and media literacy. It is important to become in a skeptical person in those times.
Nice! Careful - you don't need 'to' with 'cherry-pick' :)
@@bbclearningenglish thanks cherry- pick
Thanks BBC so much!!!Critical thinking is of great value today!
Very nice topic and video ! It was very pedagogical 🎉 . I agree we need this skill to be taught in schools .
I really love this channel!!!❤❤❤🎉 It's so interesting to listen and also improve your English. Thank you 😊
Nice topic selection for discussion!😊
Thank you . Undoubtedly, open-minded and broad minded individuals must have critical thinking. The dark side is that sometimes, with the guise of critical thinking, some individuals try to impose a wrong idea to others. For instance, a speaker may say that diabetes is good for health because a diabetic must avoid foods that contain sugar and carbohydrates, and therefore, diabetics are more lively and healthy than others. To say concisely critical thinking is a decent trait, but sometimes, with the pretext of critical thinking ,some politicians try to distort the reality .
Thanks for providing us with such great unbiased English learning resources
Thanks for rising this issue in this specific time where the whole world need to be aware and critical by the amount of feak news spreads wildly ,,,
I wish you can add the Media blackout in the next lesson
Great lesson of English
Such a important subject.
Cherry-Picking: Very often we do our self. BBC
Thanks for honest confession.
I enjoyed a loot!! now i am going to try to be more critical thinking thanks to this video!!!
Great job
Congratulations and Thanks for the material.
I usually write on social media platforms and try to cherry pick about things without critical thinking and end up in recieving a skeptic responses from people .
Very good your class of English
Undeniably I'm so impressed with the vocabularies you imparted to us.I'm so thrilled with the advent words I heard for the first time...I am so jubilant that I learned myriad of unique informations. Thus I will fervently watching your videos and sooner rather than later I will be competent enough to speak and write english confidently.
Good luck.
Thanks SAM and BBC Learning English for this amazing lesson. Critical thinking and open mind are the solutions. 👏👏👏
We are glad that you found it so useful :)
I absolutely agree with you
Best English learning material ❤
Exceptional 👏
Thank you very much, you are amazing.
I love the way Sam speaks, love you from Bangladesh ❤
Thank you very much for this video
Greetings from Mexico
Could please let me know where to find the tapescript for my further studies?
Good this - bravo BBC, as always.
Thanks for watching :)
Thank you so much for creating this
good topic to share, i really appreciate your efforts but i wish if you were more sceptic in sharing news nowadays.
Nice video ❤❤.
I try to have critical thinking and media literacy.
This will be great for teaching my grade 12 students.
👍 Hope they find it useful :)
Sam is so pretty and beautiful! 🌺 Thanks for information! In my country many people don’t use their critical thinking at all. Especially, if the information comes from television: news, political tv programs and that. I think it’s the terrible tendency 🤦♀️ nowadays. They just blindly believe all of those cherry-picking information without figuring out if it’s true or false. I think it happens due to human laziness although it’s a really important skill to develop the brain. They don’t want to analyze and check information just swallowing it without thinking.
Russia?
It's also happening in my country most our citizen just swallow the information from TV😅
@@alihjust5872 maybe China🤔
@@alihjust5872 yes, it is
The USA? ... well. It's everywhere.
When Sam explaining the vocabulary her voice is calming me
thank you very much
Amazing
Thanks
That’s great
There's some overlap b/w spin, cherry picking and bias. Cherry-picking could be used to spin information because a person has a biased view on a certain issue or topic or event or piece of info. Similarly, cherry-picking facts to suit our own beliefs could result in us spinning facts and being biased.
Is there a distinguishing line b/w the three? Pls educate me. Or are these three actually part of an intertwined process?
Thanks for intresting video. I have not recently seen your videos and I think they became better.
Glad you like them!
Sir I have vocabulary problem how to over come it have decided everyday I should remember 5 words it good for me or not what I should do tell me I'm from Pakistan.
hi, where I can find scripts for your videos?
also can you make some teaching/learning brochure for videos(with key words/phrases and some descriptions)?
to train reading and enhance study.
thank you in advance!
Hi - you'll find all the episodes on our website where you can also view the vocabulary taught and download copies of the scripts: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/fakenews
@@bbclearningenglish , thank you very much!
Thank you very much 🙏
You're most welcome
good topic!
Glad you enjoyed it
This video is very great and very helpful 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
@@bbclearningenglish I also found this very helpful but also a bit confusing.
If more than one source is consulted and they are saying different things how do you know which is telling the truth?
Another thing, near the start it is said that the media cherry picks. The presenter seems to imply that the BBC also does this. Is that correct or did I misunderstand her?
thx👍
Thank you 🌸
You’re welcome 😊
I also need to ask you guys if the book THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant is basically about critical thinking.
If yes then, is critical thinking useful and valuable in all situations? Esp when one is pressed for time. Our brains are hardwired for bias and that's totally understandable because we have to survive and use our 'flight or fight' response sometimes quickly. Your thoughts on this please?
Dr. Nonvella mentioned taking media literacy courses because that's an essential skill set today. what other skill set do you think is as important today and we should learn?
How same and how differrent between the two word these are "most" and "best".
I, Am from Brazilian i like video bbc Am learn english is very very Good thanks
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BBC is master in Cherry-Picking 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I would say it was more catching and impressive than 6 minutes.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Social media is one power key to improve critical thinking.Let me know how u guy do when u face to dificults problems anh how u show your bias😊😊
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Gullibility does not mean anything, the reason why have made decisions that counts.
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please we need Academic word list 570 and their families to explain us this is important to us
good job but the background music is a bit annoyed , low volume would be bether because the teacher was speaking volumes.
Thanks for the feedback :)
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Bbc LE next time make video about war crimes and genocide
The music in the background is not neccessary
Thanks for your feedback.
🥲great job but the sound of music is to high
Thanks for your feedback :)
Dr Steven speaks with American accent,doesn’t he?
Yes, he is American.
Message:People please educate yourself from different and true sources ! And actually you shouldn't be a muslim to support Palestine , you should be a human beeing. So please do not let them deceive you !! You must know the truth.
You're definitely not a critical thinker.
Dr Novella you did not say all the " truth " 🤥
Fact and fiction.
If you don't like facts, watch the BBC.
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