Critical Thinking

                     GOOD GUIDES 

Glossary of terms

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=496&CategoryID=68

 

Basic questions and answers

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=409&CategoryID=51

 

Concept and definition of critical thinking

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=411&CategoryID=51

 

Become a critic of your own thinking – Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=478&CategoryID=68

 

The role of questions in teaching, thinking and learning

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=524&CategoryID=68

 

Why students and teachers don’t reason well

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=603&CategoryID=69

 

Socratic teaching

http://www.criticalthinking.org/page.cfm?PageID=606&CategoryID=64

 

CT Mini-lessons

http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons.html

 

Steps 1 - 12:

  1. Define your problem.*
  2. Define and visualize the ideal solution.
  3. Gather the facts: specific and general.
  4. Break the pattern
  5. Go outside your own field.
  6. Try new combinations.
  7. Use all your senses.
  8. Switch off – let it simmer.
  9. Use music or nature to relax.
  10. Sleep on it.
  11. Eureka! It pops out.
  12. Recheck it.

http://www.thelearningweb.net/ideas-critical-thinking.html

 

Designing Writing Assignments that promote thinking

http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/design.html

 

Using writing to promote thinking

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/flash/writing/Bean%20Ch1.pdf

 

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”

 Catherine Drinker Bowen

 

British Council

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/write.shtml

 

Robert L. Fielding

www.rlfielding.com

 

 

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