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| Author | : Nancy Burkhalter |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 123 |
| Release | : 2016-12-08 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1475827539 |
Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience through lecturing or multiple choice testing. It requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and assessment methods. This book lays out a blueprint to do just that. Specifically, it outlines the necessary components of a critical thinking classroom and provides assessment techniques and ample exercises adaptable to any student’s field, age, or level of education. Often not considered are those learners schooled in a non-Western culture and not proficient in the presenter’s language. These audiences can create invisible barriers to instruction. Without understanding these pitfalls, trainers invite frustration and failure, and risk wasting everyone’s time and money because they were unaware any problem existed. The book addresses these linguistic, cultural, and cognitive obstacles and suggests several solutions, whether you teach these students on your home turf or theirs.
| Author | : Jonathan Haber |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2020-04-07 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0262538288 |
An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking—from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey—for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential 21st century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given the propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what, exactly, is critical thinking? Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed. Haber describes the term's origins in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and science. He examines the components of critical thinking, including • structured thinking • language skills • background knowledge • information literacy • intellectual humility • empathy and open-mindedness Haber argues that the most important critical thinking issue today is that not enough people are doing enough of it. Fortunately, critical thinking can be taught, practiced, and evaluated. This book offers a guide for teachers, students, and aspiring critical thinkers everywhere, including advice for educational leaders and policy makers on how to make the teaching and learning of critical thinking an educational priority and practical reality.
| Author | : Judy Chartrand |
| Publisher | : FT Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2011-06-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0132693542 |
If you can change the way you think, you can change the world. That’s the theme of Now You’re Thinking! as it tells the story of how a 2-year old Iraqi girl’s life was saved through determination, courage, and critical thinking. The book begins with the heroic story of how a Marine battalion beat the odds to save this little girl, and ends with a model of critical thinking that will help you STOP and THINK to recognize your emotions, evaluate arguments, and draw conclusions to make better life decisions. This book also provides the opportunity for you to take the My Thinking Styles assessment for free to learn your natural thinking preferences, strengths, and biases. This short read will give you a real-life example of great thinking plus tons of resources to guide your further interest in effective thinking.
| Author | : Julie Bogart |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2023-08-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0593542711 |
A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in the digital age. Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret what they read and see. Amid the noise, it has become increasingly important to examine different perspectives with both curiosity and discernment. But how do parents teach these skills to their children? Drawing on more than twenty years’ experience homeschooling and developing curricula, Julie Bogart offers practical tools to help children at every stage of development to grow in their ability to explore the world around them, examine how their loyalties and biases affect their beliefs, and generate fresh insight rather than simply recycling what they’ve been taught. Full of accessible stories and activities for children of all ages, Raising Critical Thinkers helps parents to nurture passionate learners with thoughtful minds and empathetic hearts.
| Author | : Warren Berger |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2018-10-30 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1632869586 |
From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face--at work, in our relationships, and beyond. When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. But "questionologist" Warren Berger says that the questions must be the right ones; the ones that cut to the heart of complexity or enable us to see an old problem in a fresh way. In The Book of Beautiful Questions, Berger shares illuminating stories and compelling research on the power of inquiry. Drawn from the insights and expertise of psychologists, innovators, effective leaders, and some of the world's foremost creative thinkers, he presents the essential questions readers need to make the best choices when it truly counts, with a particular focus in four key areas: decision-making, creativity, leadership, and relationships. The powerful questions in this book can help you: - Identify opportunities in your career or industry - Generate fresh ideas in business or in your own creative pursuits - Check your biases so you can make better judgments and decisions - Do a better job of communicating and connecting with the people around you Thoughtful, provocative, and actionable, these beautiful questions can be applied immediately to bring about change in your work or your everyday life.
| Author | : Daniel J. Levitin |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1524742228 |
Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies We’re surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are the fundamental lessons in critical thinking that we need to know and share now. Investigating numerical misinformation, Daniel Levitin shows how mishandled statistics and graphs can give a grossly distorted perspective and lead us to terrible decisions. Wordy arguments on the other hand can easily be persuasive as they drift away from the facts in an appealing yet misguided way. The steps we can take to better evaluate news, advertisements, and reports are clearly detailed. Ultimately, Levitin turns to what underlies our ability to determine if something is true or false: the scientific method. He grapples with the limits of what we can and cannot know. Case studies are offered to demonstrate the applications of logical thinking to quite varied settings, spanning courtroom testimony, medical decision making, magic, modern physics, and conspiracy theories. This urgently needed book enables us to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. As Levitin attests: Truth matters. A post-truth era is an era of willful irrationality, reversing all the great advances humankind has made. Euphemisms like “fringe theories,” “extreme views,” “alt truth,” and even “fake news” can literally be dangerous. Let's call lies what they are and catch those making them in the act.
| Author | : Efthemia Papadopoulos |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 30 |
| Release | : 2019-12-21 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781679140389 |
Hello. My name is Dr. Efthemia Papadopoulos, Ph.D. and this is a study guide for Critical Thinking courses. I strongly recommend that you print this guide. I will summarize, on this Study Guide document, what to specifically study and be able to demonstrate you have comprehension for university level Critical Thinking courses. A 20 question multiple choice exam is available for authorized university representatives to purchase for use. My vision when I retired from Blizzard Entertainment, where I was commemorated by AI Genius inventor of Orisa, (a robot with a heart), Efi Oladele, was that education must evolve to be entertaining in order to be effective. Over the next 20 years, the integration of game play and education, uses Happy Everyday all ages curriculum, which is, play, explore, read, and count (PERC). "Anticipate the student needs" Dr. Jeanie Foster. Find where a student likes to play, meet them there, and integrate more exploring, reading, and counting relating to it, as Dr. Stan Foster explains being one of the first in film industry to use computerized budgeting, scheduling, and accounting. He liked to play in filmmaking and then embraced cool tools to help with counting! Benjamin Franklin, President Donald Trump, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, Elon Musk, pizza and beer, are mentioned in this entertaining way to develop critical thinking skills. Even if you are not taking a critical thinking exam and need to grasp critical thinking skills to live better, this is a great read and recommended for high school students, adults, adult learners, and seekers of truth.Before beginning work as a professor, I anticipated the needs of universities to have quality video content. Happy Everyday charity at the time thanked its viewers for their patience as we worked hard to improve video production quality. After all, my professional team was in post production of the film The Prey: Legend of the Karnoctus and my charity work, was well, charity work. Dr. Stan Foster experienced the changes over time in the film industry and is an academic. Lennexe Films has already begun to integrate academia and entertainment and I volunteered myself to be the guinea pig directly in academia, while Director Cire Hensman, mentored dozens who now have their own video production companies. Let's Do This! In Loving Memory of Dr. Majdin Taba.
| Author | : Michael Kallet |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2014-03-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1118871251 |
Train your brain for better decisions, problem solving, and innovation Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills is the comprehensive guide to training your brain to do more for you. Written by a critical thinking trainer and coach, the book presents a pragmatic set of tools to apply critical thinking techniques to everyday business issues. Think Smarter is filled with real world examples that demonstrate how the tools work in action, in addition to dozens of practice exercises applicable across industries and functions, Think Smarter is a versatile resource for individuals, managers, students, and corporate training programs. Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors. Shifting over to critical thinking means thinking purposefully using a framework and toolset, enabling thought processes that lead to better decisions, faster problem solving, and creative innovation. Think Smarter provides clear, actionable steps toward improving your critical thinking skills, plus exercises that clarify complex concepts by putting theory into practice. Features include: A comprehensive critical thinking framework Over twenty-five "tools" to help you think more critically Critical thinking implementation for functions and activities Examples of the real-world use of each tool Learn what questions to ask, how to uncover the real problem to solve, and mistakes to avoid. Recognize assumptions your can rely on versus those without merit, and train your brain to tick through your mental toolbox to arrive at more innovative solutions. Critical thinking is the top skill on the wish list in the business world, and sharpening your ability can have profound affects throughout all facets of life. Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills provides a roadmap to more effective and productive thought.
| Author | : Gary James Jason |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2022-01-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1770488324 |
The Critical Thinking Book covers not only standard topics such as definitions, fallacies, and argument identification, but also other pertinent themes such as consumer choice in a market economy and political choice in a representative democracy. Interesting historical asides are included throughout, as are images, diagrams, and reflective questions. A wealth of exercises is provided, both within the text and on a supplemental website for instructors.
| Author | : Joe Y. F. Lau |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2011-12-22 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1118033434 |
A valuable guide on creativity and critical thinking to improve reasoning and decision-making skills Critical thinking skills are essential in virtually any field of study or practice where individuals need to communicate ideas, make decisions, and analyze and solve problems. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better outlines the necessary tools for readers to become critical as well as creative thinkers. By gaining a practical and solid foundation in the basic principles that underlie critical thinking and creativity, readers will become equipped to think in a more systematic, logical, and imaginative manner. Creativity is needed to generate new ideas to solve problems, and critical thinking evaluates and improves an idea. These concepts are uniquely introduced as a unified whole due to their dependence on each other. Each chapter introduces relevant theories in conjunction with real-life examples and findings from cognitive science and psychology to illustrate how the theories can be applied in numerous fields and careers. An emphasis on how theoretical principles of reasoning can be practical and useful in everyday life is featured, and special sections on presentation techniques, the analysis of meaning, decision-making, and reasoning about personal and moral values are also highlighted. All chapters conclude with a set of exercises, and detailed solutions are provided at the end of the book. A companion website features online tutorials that further explore topics including meaning analysis, argument analysis, logic, statistics, and strategic thinking, along with additional exercises and multimedia resources for continued study. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity is an excellent book for courses on critical thinking and logic at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The book also serves as a self-contained study guide for readers interested in the topics of critical thinking and creativity as a unified whole.
