Critical Thinking

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Critical Thinking

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Question Everything

• Analyze
• Manage
• Challenge
• Interpret
• Research
• Examine
• Reflect

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Most Issues Arent Black/White

• Liberal Arts Colleges encourage Critical Thinking
• Encourages new possibilities / reject nothing

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Critical Thinking Beyond College

• Employers want critical thinkers

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Leave Emotions Out

• What does the evidence say?
• Some questions have no right Answers
• Never reach an unsupportable conclusion

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Collaborate

• Discuss abstract issues with others
• Understand the values / culture of others

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Critical Thinking is Work

• No one source for all answers
• Organize the possibilities
• Dont make hasty generalizations
• Through out trash
• Brainstorm
• Make lists

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Communicate With Precision

• Prepare / write it down / talk it out
• What will listener need to know?
• Organize your reasoning
• Be persuasive with logic
• Dont be defensive
• A good argument is no better than the
  presentation

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Internet Sources

• 9 Cs for evaluating Internet sources

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Setting Goals

• Set dates
• Write everything down
• Short-term goals
• Long-term goals
• What difficulties might be encountered?

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Personal Journal

• Talk to yourself
• Emotional arguments
• Logical arguments

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Adult Learners

• Active not passive
• Facilitator is participant learner
• Adult learning is relevant

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Andragogy Principals

• Need to know
• Concept of self
• Build on prior experience
• Ready to learn
• Orientation for learning
• Motivated to learn

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Adult Strategies

• Climate of respect, trust, non-threatening
• Take responsibility for your own methods /
  resources

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Andragogical Assumptions

• Learning is life-centered
• Experience is richest resource for learning
• Learning is self-directed
• Individual differences

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