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Description of Critical Thinking? Critical Thinking & Achievement Main Purpose of College Experience Critical Thinking Concepts What is Thinking? Biology of Thinking Stages of Development of the Thinking Process What does “not thinking critically” look like? What does Critical Thinking Look Like? Why is critical thinking important? What are the Major Concepts in Critical Thinking? A Critical Thinking Problem Solving Model Problem Solving Content /Component Focus on solutions & not on problems Reality Testing of Possible Solutions to Problem Strategies for teaching skills related to Critical Thinking skills related to critical thinking
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- 1. Train the Trainers Critical Thinking SIEC-ISBE: 79th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007 Prof. Lili Saghafi The College / University of Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas 2007
- 3. Description of Critical Thinking? “ If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” Peace Pilgrim 1908 - 1981 from 1953 to 1981 walked more than 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace.
- 22. Critical Thinking Concepts Trying to get people to reason in a way that is not natural for them is like trying to teach a pig to sing. You don't accomplish anything and you annoy the pig. --- E. Jeffrey Conklin & William Weil
- 24. Biology of Thinking "I think, therefore I am“ Descartes
- 30. CT scan of a normal brain McGill Brain Imaging Centre CT scan of a normal brain
- 33. Stages of Development of the Thinking Process "I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological” Jean Piaget1896-1980 Father of Developmental Psychology
- 58. A Critical Thinking Problem Solving Model We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. --- Albert Einstein
- 72. Cases Case I Case II
- 83. Strategies for teaching skills related to Critical Thinking: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. “ Thomas A. Kempis” a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of Imitation of Christ 1380 - July 25, 1471
- 94. Thanks a million You were great audience SIEC-ISBE: 79th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007 Professor Lili Saghafi
- 95. Questions?? SIEC-ISBE: 79th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007 Professor Lili Saghafi
Editor's Notes
- Does this fit with the examples of people you thought of?
- CT goes beyond classroom. Experts say some school experiences may harm development of good CT
- According to the experts, critical thinkers can also be described in terms of how they approach specific issues, questions, or problems
- What exactly does this mean? Categorization Decoding significance Clarifying meaning
- What’s really being said here? Examining ideas Detecting arguments Analyzing arguments
- Is this creditable and does it make sense?
- What else is being said but not is not actually said? Querying evidence Conjecturing alternative Drawing conclusions
- Lemme ‘splain this to you. Stating results Justifying procedures Presenting arguments
- Hmmm. I could’ve said this or I could’ve been more clear or I forgot to say this or I should not have said this.
- In addition to the six cognitive skills, the experts say that something
- Almost sounds like Sherlock Holmes. The kind of person described here always wants to ask “why” or “how?” or “what happens if . . .?” Difference is Holmes always solved the mystery. No guarantees in real world.
- So we are certain that good critical thinking skills mean better grades, but . . .
- Good grades transitory . . . Half-life of technical and professional programs at college level is about 4 years. Limited time value. Not liberal in the sense of a smattering of this and that but . . . Obviously more to liberal education than CT— understanding of methods, principles, theories, and ways of achieving knowledge encounter with cultural, artistic, spiritual dimensions of life evolution of decision making to level of principled integrity realization of ways lives are shaped by global as well as local social, political, psychological, economic, environmental forces Refinement of human sensibilities through reflection on recurring questions of human existence: love, death, meaning, life Sensitivity, appreciation, critical appraisal of all that is good and bad in human condition CT plays a role in achieving all these things.
- Imagine the consequences if CT not applied in . . .
- Could have students talk about someone they admire. Embedded are assumptions about what person sees as valuable.
- Especially when language is used to persuade (ability increased by CT) through increased insight. Helpful for ferreting arguments. “ Metaphors are the way we think about ourselves and the world.”
- Hypothetical syllogisms—conditional arguments exercise Syllogism completion exercise Syllogism Validity testing exercise Suggestions?
- Master list of fallacies Formal fallacies