critical thinking: taking baby steps dr. jennifer haber, communications
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Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking: Taking Baby StepsTaking Baby Steps
Dr. Jennifer Haber, Communications
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What you can do to help What you can do to help students engage in students engage in critical thinking?critical thinking?
Help them understand what critical Help them understand what critical thinking is and how it affects thinking is and how it affects everything we do (class discussion)everything we do (class discussion)
Allow students to practice critical Allow students to practice critical thinking while reading (using the thinking while reading (using the library, reading, and thinking: writing library, reading, and thinking: writing assignment or annotated bibliography)assignment or annotated bibliography)
Show students how to paraphrase and Show students how to paraphrase and why it is important (assignment)why it is important (assignment)
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1.1. Help students Help students understand understand what critical what critical thinking is thinking is and how it and how it
affects affects everything everything
we do. we do. Talk/discuss Talk/discuss the here and the here and
now.now.
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Critical thinking isthe art of analyzing
and assessing thinking in order
to improve it.Critical thinking
needs to be purposeful.
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Most of the world’s Most of the world’s problemsproblems
are caused by, or are caused by, or exacerbated by, exacerbated by,
problems in human problems in human thinkingthinking
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Consider these problemsConsider these problems HumiliationHumiliation Hunger Hunger PovertyPoverty HomelessnessHomelessness Global WarmingGlobal Warming TortureTorture MurderMurder RapeRape
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2. 2. Make students Make students practice critical practice critical
thinking and critical thinking and critical reading.reading.
Try a reading exercise.Try a reading exercise.
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3. Teach students 3. Teach students how to how to
paraphrase. Try paraphrase. Try an activity.an activity.
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Any questions?Any questions?Any sharing?Any sharing?