Cengage Webinar: Every time I start to read, I fall asleepCengage Learning
A conversation on active reading skills for college success with Gail Malone, Ph.D., Director of the Teaching & Learning Center at South Plains College.
Thinking Effectively & Critically
Do you wonder what it means to be a critical thinker?
Many of your assignments will require you to use higher level thinking skills. This workshop will help you rewire your brain and more effectively use new information and your current knowledge to maximize your success as a student.
This presentation is designed to welcome visitors to the STUDYSmarter Critical Thinking Corner. It includes an overview of strategies for critical thinking, reading and writing at university.
The knowledge of your Learning Patterns provides you with an .docxjmindy
“The knowledge of your Learning Patterns provides you with an explanation
of how you learn, not an excuse for failing to put forth the effort to learn.”
—Christine A. Johnston (2010, p. 107)
4Developing an Adept Mind
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Learning Outcomes
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
• Define the term adept mind.
• Explain the role critical thinking plays in becoming a successful student.
• Demonstrate critical reading within the college learning context.
• Describe how your Patterns affect your critical-reading skills.
• Demonstrate critical writing within the college learning context.
• Describe how your Patterns affect your critical-writing skills.
• Explain how critical-thinking skills contribute to academic integrity.
“In order to thrive in the 21st Century, intentional learners should be
empowered through a mastery of intellectual and practical skills, informed
about forms of inquiry, and responsible for their personal actions.”
—J. Doherty and K. Ketchner (2005, p. 1)
Section 4.2Becoming a Critical Thinker
4.1 The Adept Mind
Chapter 3 was devoted to helping you understand how to use metacognition, the learning
techniques known as decoding and FITing, and personalized strategies to become a more
intentional learner. This chapter builds on that knowledge by framing how to use your Learn-
ing Patterns to develop an adept mind.
The adept mind helps you succeed in all areas of life. It is one that makes good decisions and
can discern the difference between fact and fiction. It studies a situation’s complexity, weighs
the facts, examines the logic behind a choice, and determines whether a choice is appropriate.
The adept mind is intentional, stable, and often methodical and always seeks to improve its
efficiency and effectiveness. The adept mind is vital not only to the work of a student, but also
to the experience of being a parent, employee, or volunteer. No matter what you are called
on to do in life, you will need an adept mind to navigate the change you encounter and the
growth you seek.
The adept mind uses the critical skills of thinking, reading, and writing—skills this chap-
ter explores in depth—and uses them with integrity. The word critical is not one students
embrace easily. It has a negative connotation and suggests that someone has found fault with
something you have done. It conjures up images of a scolding voice, red pen marks, or nega-
tive comments. When applied to thinking, reading, and writing, however, the word critical
takes on a different meaning. To be critical means to delve deeper into a topic to better under-
stand, evaluate, and take a position on it. As you will see at the end of the chapter, being criti-
cal also means becoming able to use your research with honesty and originality.
4.2 Becoming a Critical Thinker
When you engage in critical think-
ing, you embark on an ongoing quest
to improve how you think. Thinking
critically requires you to b.
Cengage Webinar: Every time I start to read, I fall asleepCengage Learning
A conversation on active reading skills for college success with Gail Malone, Ph.D., Director of the Teaching & Learning Center at South Plains College.
Thinking Effectively & Critically
Do you wonder what it means to be a critical thinker?
Many of your assignments will require you to use higher level thinking skills. This workshop will help you rewire your brain and more effectively use new information and your current knowledge to maximize your success as a student.
This presentation is designed to welcome visitors to the STUDYSmarter Critical Thinking Corner. It includes an overview of strategies for critical thinking, reading and writing at university.
The knowledge of your Learning Patterns provides you with an .docxjmindy
“The knowledge of your Learning Patterns provides you with an explanation
of how you learn, not an excuse for failing to put forth the effort to learn.”
—Christine A. Johnston (2010, p. 107)
4Developing an Adept Mind
keithpix/iStock/Thinkstock
Learning Outcomes
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
• Define the term adept mind.
• Explain the role critical thinking plays in becoming a successful student.
• Demonstrate critical reading within the college learning context.
• Describe how your Patterns affect your critical-reading skills.
• Demonstrate critical writing within the college learning context.
• Describe how your Patterns affect your critical-writing skills.
• Explain how critical-thinking skills contribute to academic integrity.
“In order to thrive in the 21st Century, intentional learners should be
empowered through a mastery of intellectual and practical skills, informed
about forms of inquiry, and responsible for their personal actions.”
—J. Doherty and K. Ketchner (2005, p. 1)
Section 4.2Becoming a Critical Thinker
4.1 The Adept Mind
Chapter 3 was devoted to helping you understand how to use metacognition, the learning
techniques known as decoding and FITing, and personalized strategies to become a more
intentional learner. This chapter builds on that knowledge by framing how to use your Learn-
ing Patterns to develop an adept mind.
The adept mind helps you succeed in all areas of life. It is one that makes good decisions and
can discern the difference between fact and fiction. It studies a situation’s complexity, weighs
the facts, examines the logic behind a choice, and determines whether a choice is appropriate.
The adept mind is intentional, stable, and often methodical and always seeks to improve its
efficiency and effectiveness. The adept mind is vital not only to the work of a student, but also
to the experience of being a parent, employee, or volunteer. No matter what you are called
on to do in life, you will need an adept mind to navigate the change you encounter and the
growth you seek.
The adept mind uses the critical skills of thinking, reading, and writing—skills this chap-
ter explores in depth—and uses them with integrity. The word critical is not one students
embrace easily. It has a negative connotation and suggests that someone has found fault with
something you have done. It conjures up images of a scolding voice, red pen marks, or nega-
tive comments. When applied to thinking, reading, and writing, however, the word critical
takes on a different meaning. To be critical means to delve deeper into a topic to better under-
stand, evaluate, and take a position on it. As you will see at the end of the chapter, being criti-
cal also means becoming able to use your research with honesty and originality.
4.2 Becoming a Critical Thinker
When you engage in critical think-
ing, you embark on an ongoing quest
to improve how you think. Thinking
critically requires you to b.
The Art of Effective Learning throws light on Metacognition,a new branch of Neuroscience which smoothely unfolds the different theories of Learning & the scientific sequence & Process through which the process of Learning takes place.
Hope it adds to the quota of Knowledge.
SJSD Comprehension Strategy Professional DevelopmentDrDial
Slides from Professional Development on February 19, 2013 in the St. Joseph School District regarding the importance of Comprehension Strategies in the implementation of the Common Core.
Managing Yourself as a Successful Student
Do you wonder what the best approach to your learning is?
Do you want to learn how to become more organized with your studies and your time?
This workshop will show you how to effectively organize yourself and your time. You will also learn how to maximize your study strategies and tailor them to your individual learning needs.
www.necacademicsupport.pbworks.com
In order to foster the academic skills development of students at all levels of academic ability and to increase student learning and retention, Northeast Center faculty and academic support collaborated to design innovative approaches which integrate in-person academic support into credit-bearing studies. As a result, we have developed several embedded academic support models using learning and peer coaches to assist students in their acquisition and enhancement of writing skills, academic research strategies and content area knowledge. This presentation will explore the ways in which we have embedded academic support into two different study groups, highlighting the benefits for both faculty and students, and examine lessons learned. Our intention with the presentation is to bring the audience into this conversation, sharing the models we use for our peer coach training and embedded academic support approaches. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own centers and take away ideas for how they might adapt these models to start/enhance their own embedded academic support efforts.
Planning & Writing Your Rationale Essay
Rationale Essay? Are you unsure of how to begin and what to include?
Designing your own degree plan is difficult; writing about that plan is even harder. Thinking about your degree plan as your resume & the rationale essay as your cover letter is the approach we take in this workshop that will introduce you to the steps & strategies necessary to complete the most unique piece of writing that you will do at ESC .
In order to foster the academic skills development of students at all levels of academic ability and to increase student learning and retention, Northeast Center faculty and academic support collaborated to design innovative approaches which integrate in-person academic support into credit-bearing studies. As a result, we have developed several embedded academic support models using learning and peer coaches to assist students in their acquisition and enhancement of writing skills, academic research strategies and content area knowledge. This presentation will explore the ways in which we have embedded academic support into two different study groups (writing and history) – highlighting the benefits for both faculty and students – and examine lessons learned. Our intention with the presentation is to bring the audience into this conversation, sharing the models we use for our peer coach training and embedded academic support approaches. Participants will be asked to reflect on experiences in their own centers and take away ideas for how they might adapt these models to enhance their own embedded academic support efforts.
Are you unsure what to expect in your first term?
Do you need to brush-up on organization, time management, and goal setting?
Do you need help keeping the momentum going throughout the term?
Completing orientation is only the first of many pieces to your success at SUNY Empire State College’s Northeast
Center (NEC). Now that you have met your mentor and learned about the many resources available to you, you are
ready to put together the other pieces that will help you have a successful first term.
At three important stages during the
term, we will offer workshops and
interactive sessions conducted by staff
and current students to provide you with
additional resources and effective
strategies to help you piece together a
successful academic experience. We
highly recommend this series for new
students, but all students are welcome
to participate each term.
Before You Begin HIGHLY recommended for new students
Being a Successful Learner
Communicating Effectively with your Mentor and Instructors
Setting Term Long Goals
Student Panel : The Balancing Act & Other Success Tips
Rationale Essay? Are you unsure of how to begin? Of what to include?
Designing your own degree plan is difficult; writing about that plan is even harder. Thinking about your degree plan as your resume & the rationale essay as your cover letter is the approach we take in this workshop that will introduce you to the steps & strategies necessary to complete the most unique piece of writing that you will do at ESC .
Planning & Writing Your Rationale Essay
Rationale Essay? Are you unsure of how to begin? Of what to include?
Designing your own degree plan is difficult; writing about that plan is even harder. Thinking about your degree plan as your resume & the rationale essay as your cover letter is the approach we take in this workshop that will introduce you to the steps & strategies necessary to complete the most unique piece of writing that you will do at ESC .
Write Effectively & Overcome Writer’s Block
Do you have a hard time deciding what to write about? Do you have trouble developing a thesis?
Have you gotten feedback on your papers asking you to more clearly develop your ideas?
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of effective writing. You will also learn some strategies for how to critically analyze information in
order to more effectively write your essays & get through writer’s block.
Academic Research Strategies
How do I effectively & efficiently do academic research & navigate the college's online library?
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of academic research & show you how to best use the ESC Library resources to find sources & cite
them in your academic papers.
From Research to Paper: How to Write a Research Paper
Do you feel overwhelmed when you try to pick the right resources to include in your research paper?
Do you know how to properly cite your research sources?
This workshop shows students how to effective use the research they have completed & put those resources together into a properly cited & well
developed research paper.
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
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Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
2. AGENDA
•Understand the complexity of thinking
critically
•Improve critical thinking skills
•Learn to apply critical thinking in
everyday life
•Questions? (Stop me and ask throughout)
3. A THINKING METAPHOR
The performance of a car does not depend on the horsepower of the
car, but upon the skill with which the car is driven by the driver.
So, if intelligence is the horsepower of the car, then “thinking” is
the skill with which that horsepower is used.
Intelligence is a potential. Thinking is an operating skill.
Thinking is the operating skill through which intelligence acts upon
experience
- Edward DeBono Thinking Course, p. 2
4. Characteristics of Strong Critical Thinkers
(from Vincent Ruggiero, Beyond Feelings, A Guide to Critical Thinking):
• Critical Thinkers... "Are honest with • Critical Thinkers... "Are interested in
themselves, acknowledging what they other people's ideas, so are willing to
don't know, recognizing their limitations, read and listen attentively, even when
and being watchful of their own errors." they tend to disagree with the other
• Critical Thinkers... "Regard problems and person."
controversial issues as exciting • Critical Thinkers... "Recognize that
challenges." extreme views (whether conservative or
• Critical Thinkers... "Strive for liberal) are seldom correct, so they avoid
understanding, keep curiosity alive, them, practice fair-mindedness, and seek
remain patient with complexity and ready a balanced view."
to invest time to overcome confusion." • Critical Thinkers... "Practice restraint,
• Critical Thinkers... "Set aside personal controlling their feelings rather than
preferences and base judgments on being controlled by them, and thinking
evidence, deferring judgment whenever before acting."
evidence is insufficient. They revise
judgments when new evidence reveals
error."
5. Critical thinking is about understanding, analyzing
and evaluating “texts” in order to comprehend,
judge accuracy, & relevancy.
UNDERSTANDING
ANALYZING
EVALUATING
15. ARCHIPELAGO - ISLANDS
The Dahlak Archipelago is an
island group located in the Red
Sea near Massawa, Eritrea.
The Archipelago of Albion
16. Bloom’s Taxonomy
EVALUATION - Student appraises, assesses, or critiques
on a basis of specific standards and criteria.
SYNTHESIS - Student originates, integrates, and combines
ideas into a product, plan or proposal that is new to him or her.
ANALYSIS - Student distinguishes, classifies, and relates
the assumptions, hypotheses, evidence, or structure of a
statement or question.
APPLICATION - Student selects, transfers, and uses
data and principles to complete a problem or task with a
minimum of direction.
COMPREHENSION - Student translates, comprehends, or
interprets information based on prior learning.
KNOWLEDGE - Student recalls or recognizes information,
ideas, and principles in the approximate form in which they
were learned.
17. Real Life Example – A Drum
• Knowledge – What is it?
• Comprehension – Classification
• Application – What does it do?
• Analysis – How does it work?
• Synthesis – What happens when
you…
• Evaluation – What was the quality?
18. INPUT
The Text
• “The Assignment”
• “The Reading”
• “The Lecture”
• “The Movie”
The actual “text”
• “The Conversation” and purpose for “reading”
Personal Characteristics &
• Your Learning Style What you bring to the
• Your Experience
• Your Attitude critical thinking process
• Your Filter
• Your Schema/Prior Knowledge
19. UNDERSTANDING
What is “understanding”?
• Knowing what needs to be known
and why/what will be done with the
information
• Activated Schema
• “Thinking”
• Comprehending – Key Issues/ The meaning you gain/make
Main Points
as you “read” the “text”
• Summarizing in your own words
Strategies for how to get it Your comprehension
Activating Schema
SQ3R -of the “text”
Says/Does
Summarizing
Note Taking
Graphic Organizing
20. ANALYSIS
What is “analysis”
• Identify the Elements, Relationships and
Organization of the “text”
• Know the Parts of the “text”
• Look for the relationships between ideas
• Interpretation
Strategies for how to do it How you piece together the
Context Clues significance and organization
Association with Schema of the parts of the text
Says/Does
Outlining
Graphic Organizing/Mindmapping
PTR2
Interpretation of Intent/Facts
21. EVALUATION
What it is
• Assess merits of the argument
• EFFECTIVENESS
• Draw conclusions
• Critique the structure, content,
or implications
• Generate possible solutions
• Look for logical fallacies
How you judge the quality
Strategies for how to do it and make decisions based
Outlining
Graphic Organizing
on the evidence, structure,
PTR2 and logic of the reading
Interpretation of Intent/Facts
22. EXAMPLES of Ways to Read and Discuss Text
From: www.criticalreading.com/ways_to_read.htm
Consider the following nursery rhyme...
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
and everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
What A Text Says talks about the topic of the original text, Mary and the lamb.
Mary had a lamb that followed her everywhere.
What A Text Does talks about the story.
The nursery rhyme describes a pet that followed its mistress everywhere.
What a Text Means talks about meaning within the story, here the idea of innocent devotion.
An image of innocent devotion is conveyed by the story of a lamb's close connection to
its mistress. The devotion is emphasized by repetition that emphasizes the constancy of
the lamb's actions ("everywhere"…"sure to go.") The notion of innocence is conveyed by
the image of a young lamb, "white as snow." By making it seem that this connection
between pet and mistress is natural and good, the nursery rhyme asserts innocent
devotion as a positive relationship.
23. Using Critical Thinking Skills in Your Writing
• Approach the assignment with an “open mind”
• Be prepared to ask many questions/seek answers
during your prewriting exercises
• Tap into your prior learning (your schema)
• Relate theory to practice
• Attempt to draw your own conclusions and
theories
• Make a claim and support it
24. PTR 2
P =
roblem
INTRO
T hesis
R =
easons BODY
R =esults Conclusion
25. Summary of Critical Thinking
• It’s a process
• You can improve it Input
• Embrace the challenge
Evalutation Understanding
Analysis
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis 1. Consider the problem
2. Evaluate your options
Application
3. Gather more information
Comprehension 4. Determine your answer
Knowledge
26. Fun Websites to Boost your Brain Power
• http://queendom.com/
• http://www.braingle.com/
• http://www.brainbashers.com/
• http://www.khanacademy.org brain teasers
Editor's Notes
A drum, it is a percussion instrument, it makes music, by hitting the top with a drumstick it makes a sound, when you hit it with a specific rhythm it will create music, depending on the skill and experience of the player the music might be good or bad or anywhere in between.