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A Step into 21st Century


 Last Friday I started a training program on 21st century skills and the very first lesson was mostly a wonderful discussion. Beginning with a presentation on critical thinking, we discussed different questions such as “What is critical thinking?”, “Who is a critical thinker?”, What type of qualities differentiate a strong and weak critical thinker from each other?”. After discussing all these questions some of us stated that their perspective on critical thinking had changed accordingly. Then, we participated in some kind of a game about understanding a critical thinker’s mind and we chose the possible statements which a critical thinker might make in some situations. It was fun!

 In the second part of our training session, our teachers Melda Yılmaz and Dilek İnal trained us about English’s being a global language. Throughout our lesson, we discussed different criteria that make English a global language. I personally think that English is a global language because of the power English speaking countries have and the need of connecting with one another as a world. 


 In a nutshell, our first lessons was a success as a beginning and I hope that as qualified students we can make much deeper discussions together. This way a better experience can take place. 



See you next week!

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  1. Elif9 November 2020 at 00:35

    Yessss, very happy to be a participant. See you on Friday :)

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