by Terry Heick
Note: This has leg updates of a 2018 version
Only a quick publication that is applied enough:
It’s almost #electialonday!
Some questions for the critical thinking of students: What is the relationship between vote and democracy? How does critical thinking affect the quality of a democracy? What information is essential for voters to make an informed decision about candidates? pic.twitter.com/0eodqbrlao
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12 general questions of critical thinking about vote and government
1. What is the relationship between vote and democracy?
2. How does critical thinking affect the quality and function of a democracy?
3. What information is essential for voters to make an informed decision about candidates?
4. Who decides whether a previously elected official served well or not and how that data should be used to choose future officials? In other words, how should you adjust the elections and tasks performed by future elections?
5. Why is campaign spending important? What rules should exist, if any, about statements and political accusations or campaigns?
6. How can social networks be used and use to clarify the quality of a candidate?
7. What are the pros and cons of democracy? How has the information era and social networks change as it is perceived and works?
8. What does the current status of advertising and campaign marketing imply, e -E -special on social networks, about what candidates believe about voters?
9. What are the qualities of a great leader in a political context?
10. What role does bias and bias play in the elections?
11. What is ‘false news’? Who decides what ‘false’ is? How do ‘false news’ work? How does democracy affect short and long term?
12. What does the past of the US government say about the future of the US government?
