2017
DOI: 10.1063/1.5005453
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Online discussion: Enhancing students’ critical thinking skills

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“…Now, these requests were also seen by friends who were not in their group or even in the same school so that they could get feedback and advice. This aligns with previous observations that these digital backchannels provided more information on the topic of discussion than would be available without them through the main-channel, which may improve critical thinking (Rathakrishnan et al, 2017), and the building of new ideas (Brooke, 1987;Chen & Looi, 2007). These channels were outside the main channel of the Moodle site, even though the Moodle site offered most of the same affordances for communication.…”
Section: S: Yessupporting
confidence: 86%
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“…Now, these requests were also seen by friends who were not in their group or even in the same school so that they could get feedback and advice. This aligns with previous observations that these digital backchannels provided more information on the topic of discussion than would be available without them through the main-channel, which may improve critical thinking (Rathakrishnan et al, 2017), and the building of new ideas (Brooke, 1987;Chen & Looi, 2007). These channels were outside the main channel of the Moodle site, even though the Moodle site offered most of the same affordances for communication.…”
Section: S: Yessupporting
confidence: 86%
“…to have higher critical thinking levels than students who do not use online discussion (Rathakrishnan et al, 2017). Discourse outside front-channel instruction often involves questioning ideas, exposure to alternative points of view (Chen & Looi, 2007), building ideas that may be in conflict with accepted ways of thinking and acting (Brooke, 1987), and introducing unofficial references without disrupting the main-channel interaction (Cogdill et al, 2001), since one person cannot easily dominate the discussion (Branon & Essex, 2001;Ortega, 1997).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During these activities (3-7, 9) the teacher stayed in the main room and interacted with the students in the virtual rooms whenever requested, giving the necessary support for them to carry out the activities. The collaborative Padlet platform was used to help students and teachers perform the feedback activities in the online environment [43].…”
Section: Pedagogical Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Blogs in the scope and features of smaller facilities are known as microblogging, and it is one of the recent technology in the Web 2.0 era [8]. Research conducted by Ebner et al exposes that microblogging media can be regarded as a recent form of communication that can informally support learning outside the classroom [8], enhance critical thinking skills, [9], as well as assessment skills [10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%