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Critical Thinking On The Web. Top Ten Argument Mapping Tutorials.

Critical Thinking On The Web

Six online tutorials in argument mapping, a core requirement for advanced critical thinking.The Skeptic's Dictionary - over 400 definitions and essays. The Fallacy Files by Gary Curtis. Best website on fallacies. Butterflies and Wheels. What is critical thinking? Nobody said it better than Francis Bacon, back in 1605: For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture.

A shorter version is the art of being right. More definitions... Evaluating Scholarly Content Online - The Library, University of California, Ber. A-Flowchart-to-Help-You-Determine-if-Yoursquore-Having-a-Rational-Discussion.jpg (622×866) Olympic Questions. Describe the costs and benefits of staging the Olympics. Define the meaning of the Olympic Motto. Label any Olympic sporting apparatus with design features. Locate any sporting apparatus from games before 1960 and compare with today's apparatus. Write a news report.

Draw a new symbol for the 2000 Olympics. Identify problems that will occur at the Sydney Olympics. Select an athlete and follow their progress through the games. Comprehension : Confirming / Understanding Express your opinion of 'Drugs in Sport' through poetry. Define a meaning for Olympism in the New Millennium. Illustrate this caption: "Olympic as a Media Event in the Information Society" Transform one of the rules of any Olympic sport. Confirm the IOC's current policy on drugs with one good argument. Match an Olympic athlete with an inanimate object and suggests three things that are different and three things that are the same. Restate the Olympic motto in your own words. How does drug use affect competition? Table of Contents.

Here Be Dragons. Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy. What are critical thinking and creative thinking?

Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy

What's Bloom's taxonomy and how is it helpful in project planning? How are the domains of learning reflected in technology-rich projects? Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Within the cognitive domain, he identified six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Critical Thinking Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing. Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. Knowledge. Critical-thinking - home.

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Taxonomy of Socratic Questions. Www.aejmc.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/criticalthink10.pdf. Faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/rhennis/documents/IncorpY400dpiBWNoDropPp1-9PrintD.pdf. Perceptions of Students. Collaborative Learning Enhances critical Thinking. Overview Of Critical Thinking. Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money. A Model for Critical Thinking.

Critical Thinking - Standards of Thought - Part 2. Foundation for Critical Thinking (YouTube Channel) Critical Thinking - Standards of Thought - Part 1. Teaching Critical Thinking Skills. Critical Thinking Skills. By Vicky Lara, El Paso Community College Purpose: The purpose of this module is to provide a series of annotated web sites for educators interested in exploring critical thinking in order to incorporate it to a greater extent into their teaching.

Critical Thinking Skills

To that effect, the selections in this module are of a more practical than theoretical basis. However, some theory has been included in the section on definition and basic concepts to ensure that the module provides a sound theoretical foundation for application. Key Concepts: Goals for a Critical Thinking Curriculum. An Outline of Goals for a Critical Thinking Curriculum and Its Assessment 1Robert H.

Goals for a Critical Thinking Curriculum

Ennis, University of Illinois, UC (Revised 6/20/02) E-mail: rhennis@uiuc.edu Web site: Critical thinking, as the term is generally used these days, roughly means reasonable and reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do. 2 In doing such thinking, one is helped by the employment of a set of critical thinking dispositions and abilities that I shall outline, and that can serve as a set of comprehensive goals for a critical thinking curriculum and its assessment. Pedagogical and psychometric usefulness, not elegance or mutual exclusiveness, is the purpose of this outline.