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  1. Hello, my name is Katie Walker and I am going to be doing a presentation
  2. that is for a digital storytelling project.
  3. This presentation is going to be
  4. talking about critical thinking and its importance
  5. as you see what can happen when
  6. you don't use your critical thinking.
  7. So the story starts off with a tree,
  8. me and my uncle
  9. now
  10. I don't have any pictures of my uncle or me.
  11. Um I just used pictures I have online to kind of help move the story along.
  12. So to start off, let's talk about the characters.
  13. So my uncle, he's my maternal uncle on my mom's side,
  14. his name is Leroy.
  15. Uh him and I were out and
  16. he decided he wanted to cut down the branches on a tree.
  17. Now let's take a quick look at the setting here
  18. because this tree was
  19. over a pond
  20. and this isn't the exact tree in the exact pond.
  21. In fact,
  22. the branch that he wanted to cut off was clean into the deepest part of the pond.
  23. It was way in there.
  24. So he was like, well,
  25. we just need to cut it off because it's making the pond too shaded you know,
  26. we can't catch any fish.
  27. Like it's just annoying. It's a pain
  28. birds poop on you all that business.
  29. So, he's like, I'm going to take it upon myself and I'm gonna do stuff.
  30. Now, here's the catch.
  31. My grandma gave my uncle a warning.
  32. She said,
  33. Leroy.
  34. I know you have a
  35. chainsaw
  36. but you need to be careful when cutting down a
  37. tree with a chainsaw while you're up on the tree.
  38. Now,
  39. my uncle decided
  40. he wasn't going to heed that warning.
  41. He stubbornly said, I don't have to think it through. I know exactly what I'm doing.
  42. Don't have to worry about it.
  43. Well,
  44. let's just say since the branch was over the pond,
  45. you might want to beware of falling into water.
  46. Luckily, my uncle had a chainsaw that the moment you let go of it,
  47. it disconnects the battery.
  48. So that's an important part of this story.
  49. No one was harmed in the process of this storytelling.
  50. So he went up in that tree
  51. without thinking it through without using his critical thinking.
  52. And he went out on that branch
  53. and he started
  54. looking around deciding, ok,
  55. I'm gonna cut on one section of this branch. So
  56. if I had to give you kind of an example,
  57. he would have been standing
  58. right where the water is meeting the tree
  59. and he decided he was going to turn to the left
  60. on this picture and saw away the branch
  61. that he was standing on
  62. now.
  63. I don't know about you,
  64. but
  65. that critical thinking could have come in handy right about then
  66. because if you think about it, if you're standing on the branch
  67. that you're cutting off,
  68. what's gonna happen.
  69. Well,
  70. my uncle realized the warning was very valid
  71. more than one morning cause I started shouting, Uncle Leroy,
  72. the tree's tipping. You're standing on it
  73. and wouldn't you know it.
  74. My uncle
  75. went splash right into the water
  76. with the tree branch in the very expensive chainsaw.
  77. Well, he decided that critical thinking was important.
  78. After that, he got made fun of for a very long time for making such a foolish decision
  79. and he looked kind of like this,
  80. but that is why it is so important for us to use our critical thinking.
  81. So in conclusion,
  82. think through your actions, your words,
  83. even your choices because they do have an impact in an outcome
  84. and you don't quite know what that outcome would be if you don't think it through.
  85. Thank you very much for listening.
  86. I hope that you have enjoyed this digital storytelling project. Take care.