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Why Critical Thinking Is Important
Critical thinking is a skill. It is active interpretation and evaluation of observation, communication, information and argumentation
It takes time and effort to be a good critical thinker
It’s a learned skill
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Uncertainty is not our friend?
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Critical Thinking- Logic & ReasonThe Beginning
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
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Critical Thinking- Truth
• Objective Truth• True regardless of viewer• Excepted truths• Truth is based on excepted definitions• Cat, dog, chair
• Subjective truth• Truth varies by individual• Truth is formed my each persons experiences and
belief systems• Love, justice, freedom• Subjective truth can have many definitions
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Critical Thinking-- Opinion
• Conclusion drawn that are based on emotion, subjective thought and assumptions
• The truth of the conclusion drawn is very unclear
• Try to predict outcome with subjective evidence.
• We can except others opinions without having to change ours…..ambiguity
• Opinions have no verified support
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Critical Thinking- Everyday Life
1.Reflection2.Challenged3.Improved
Thinking4.Growth and
change
We take control of our lives by knowing and improving our own method and process of thinking.
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Three Stages of Critical Thinking
Click icon to add clip art• Dualism• Only right and wrong.
• Relativism• All individual context.• No right and wrong
• Commitment• All individual context• Not all context equal
Not all situations are equally valid . Need to analyze each situation to come to the right conclusion
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Good Critical Thinking Characteristics
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Analytical
• Logic support for decisions
• Evaluate all arguments
• Recognize faulty reasoning
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Communication
• Knowing how to make your ideas know in multiple ways and situations• Languages• Cultures• Genders
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Research
• Formulate the right questions
• Interpret data• Evaluate
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Flexibility
• Knowing that clear answers are not always available
• Need to change question to fine answer
• Sometimes there is no answer
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Open Minded Skepticism
• Let evidence form conclusions
• Question beliefs• Accept other ideas
“Suspend our disbelief”
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Results of Critical Thinking
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Good Problem Solving
1. Simplify the problem2. Seek the easiest
solutions3. See multiple solutions4. See opposite sides
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Collaborative Learning
1. Share knowledge (POV)2. Pool experiences (Beliefs)3. Minimizes personal biases4. Instant feedback, quicker
resolution
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Self- Development
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Critical Thinking- Life Goals
• Lead a life that you choose and that is not given to you.
• Consider consequences before actions
• Schedule for your life
• Set goals• Challenging• Reachable
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Critical Thinking - Freedom
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily…demanded by the oppressed…For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.“
Martin Luther King, JrLetters From a Birmingham Jail
1. Need to take action and put forth effort toward a group goal
2. Can’t let fear keep us from doing what is right
3. Fear will mean no movement towards our goal at all
--- He is NOT saying that all issues that a certain sect of people deem as oppressive is justification for an individual fight for freedom ---
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Critical Thinking- Freedom
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
Thomas Jefferson
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Homework:Steps and Barriers to Critical Thinking
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Three tired model
Click icon to add clip art• Experience• I witnessed a robbery• I went to this school• I worked at this company
• Interpretation• This person was robber
because• This school is bad, and this
is why• This company should be
shut down
• Analysis• To avoid a robbery you
should• This school needs new
administration and teacher• When you start a new
company you should avoid
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Type of Resistance• Ignore situations or questions-
avoid• Get mad at situation or
questions- anger• Take on popular responses to
situations or questions- clichés• Deny that situations or question
exist- denial• Not enough knowledge to
address situations or questions- ignorance
• Peer pressure answers the questions or situations for you- conformity
• Never answering a situation or questions- struggling
• Doing something else instead of addressing situation or questions- distraction
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Narrow Mindedness
• Believe what they are told by perceived expert- Absolutism
• Don’t want the hassle- Fear of challenge
• What I think is more important than what other think- Egocentrism
• Our race or culture’s thoughts are more important that yours- Ethnocentrism