MIL

• ad hominem

  Attacking your opponent's character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.
• strawman

  Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
• loaded question

  Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty.
• begging the question 

  A circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise.
• black or white

  Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.
• slippery slope

  Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.
• burden of proof

  Saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.
• composition /division

  Assuming that what's true about one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it.
• bandwagon

  Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation
• appeal to emotion

  Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.
• Identify the fallacy in the following statements. Explain your answer. Don't waste food, people in Africa are dying because of hunger. appeal to emotion
• How can you argue your case against Martial Law when you were not yet born during that time? ad hominem
• If we allow family planning, what's next? Allowing abortion? slippery slopes
• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action (Scriven and Paul, 1987)
• Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better (Paul, 1992)
• A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts.
• To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support
• MEDIA LITERACY

  ability to decode, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of forms (UNESCO MIL Curriculum for Teachers)
• Media Literacy

  provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms from print to video to the Internet 
• -You need to show evidence that you did not cheat in the last election. burden of proof
• -If you are pro-mining, then you are supporting the destruction of the environment. strawman
• -Kopiko is the best coffee because everyone is drinking it. bandwagon