The Influence of Debating Teaching on Students' Critical Thinking Development in Smart Classroom

Abstract

With the development of smart education, how to promote students' deep learning in smart classrooms has become a hot topic of information classroom teaching reform. The development of higher-order thinking skills, especially critical thinking is an important dimension of students' deep learning. In this study, a debate teaching model was designed based on the APT (Assessment, Pedagogy, Technology, model in the smart classroom. The Chinese curriculum in the primary school was used as an example to carry out the debate teaching activities for reading. The survey questionnaire and qualitative analysis methods were used to analyze the influence of debate teaching in the smart classroom based on the APT model on students' critical thinking. The study found that the debate teaching based on the APT model can improve the students' critical thinking and higher-level knowledge building to a certain extent. The task of debate and problem solving are helpful for the development of students' knowledge building.