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Critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of analyzing and evaluating information to guide beliefs and actions. It involves skills like clarity, accuracy, evidence evaluation, depth, and fairness. Education should focus on critical thinking over memorization by engaging students in collaborative assignments that promote problem solving and exploring topics. Technological tools like blogs, discussion boards, and group projects can foster critical thinking rather than traditional testing and papers. For example, students may create a group blog evaluating Benjamin Franklin's accomplishments and comment on each other's posts to discuss agreements and disagreements. This encourages critical thinking when learning new material.
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Critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of evaluating and analyzing information to guide beliefs and actions. It involves skills like clarity, accuracy, reasoning, and sound evidence. The document discusses how critical thinking is important in education by moving away from simple memorization and towards asking questions, collaborating ideas, and engaging students in problem solving. It provides examples of how to apply critical thinking in the classroom through activities like classroom blogs, discussion boards, and group projects where students explore and discuss topics together, rather than through traditional testing. Specifically, one example given is having student groups create a blog post about important accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin and having other students comment on the posts to agree or disagree.
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Chapter 3. Critical Thinking: The Means to InquireBy Helen Zaikina-Montgomery
Essential Questions
· What does it mean for doctoral learners to think critically?
· What is metacognition, and how is it related to critical thinking?
· Why do doctoral learners need to know how to engage in critical thinking and metacognition?
· What are the main differences between academic and nonacademic publications?
· What is comparative analysis and synthesis of literature?
· What are assertions, and how can researchers avoid making them in scholarly writing?
Introduction
This chapter presents material about critical thinking, metacognition, and comparative analysis of academic literature. Critical thinking and metacognitive functioning include cognitive processes, considered the highest level of Bloom’s taxonomy (Bloom, Englehart, Furst, Hill, & Krathwohl, 1956), such as evaluation, analysis, and synthesis. The ability to think critically about empirical research and findings as well as to critically analyze one’s own writing is essential to the successful completion of a doctoral program at Grand Canyon University (GCU).
Critical thinking involves discipline as well as systematic and unbiased evaluation of facts, using metacognitive strategies to correct and refine one’s thinking processes. This chapter outlines the components of critical thinking, provides examples of how to apply critical thinking in daily life, and presents examples of how critical thinking works in academic reading and writing.
The chapter also presents a discussion of metacognition with examples of the process and application. Finally, this chapter includes examples of comparative analysis and synthesis of academic literature and informs learners about how to critically analyze the material they read. As learners at GCU progress through the doctoral program, critical analysis and synthesis become increasingly important skills to possess and demonstrate in academic work.
Definitions of Critical Thinking
In higher education, critical thinking can be a great mystery, with scholars and administrators failing to reach consensus on how to teach, evaluate, and measure learners’ critical-thinking skills. Colleges vary in their criteria of critical and reflective thinking, but many still include both in important university materials, such as the university or a specific school’s mission statement. Specifically, the mission statement of the GCU College of Doctoral Studies (CDS) highlights reflection as a component of critical thinking:
The College of Doctoral Studies seeks to engage learners in the process of becoming scholar-practitioners by deliberately invoking design principles that create scaffold, embedded curriculum grounded in adult learning theory. The College of Doctoral Studies provides structured, integrative, learning-centered doctoral programs which encourage reflective thinking from learners and collaborativ ...
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The document discusses several key approaches and considerations for teaching social studies, including:
1) Constructivism and facilitating active engagement and collaboration are important for how people learn.
2) There are various orientations for why social studies is taught, such as citizenship, cultural traditions, personal development, and diversity.
3) Selecting and organizing content requires considering goals, interests, experiences, developmental levels, and curricular requirements.
4) Locating resources involves evaluating textbooks, literature, media, technology, and community sources while watching for bias.
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This document discusses strategies for promoting critical thinking in teaching. It advocates for cooperative and collaborative learning approaches over traditional lecture-based methods. Some key points:
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- Classroom debates and discussions encourage independent and dynamic thought by having students critically analyze conflicting information. Different types of debates structure interaction.
- Both teacher and student questions are valuable for learning, with teachers aiming for deeper understanding and students seeking clarity. Formative and summative assessments evaluate individual and group work. Performance-based assessments clearly define scoring criteria.
Teaching Strategies to Promote Critical thinking-8611-UNIT 3
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A New Conservative Dynasty: Choice and Private Enterprise dominate HEA - Today’s students are the first generation to have grown up surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones and other digital media, consequentially they have a different thinking and learning style and different brain structures to previous generations (Prensky 2001). Social science academics are thus teaching in a changed world where traditional lecture/seminar pedagogical practices may no longer be applicable to the teaching and learning needs of contemporary students. This fact combined with the rise of the student as consumer has triggered a shift where private enterprise rules and students pick and choose which aspects of teaching they will engage with. This presentation’s research indicates that already techniques seen as not applicable to their needs are bypassed by students offering an explanation for attendance, participation and low engagement issues and the failure of students to develop independent problem-solving skills. This presentation provides a survival guide for social science academics by identifying the gaps between staff and student perceptions and discussing techniques for teaching the core skills needed in critical thinking and problem solving; adapting pedagogical practices to the contemporary student.
ABSTRACT
What is critical thinking and to what extent do social science students develop analytical problem solving skills through traditional social science teaching? This paper presents the results thus far of an ongoing research project which identified that law and social science students are often not learning the analytical skills that staff think they are teaching. Most social science academics doubtless consider critical thinking to be an integral and inherently embedded aspect of their pedagogical practices. Yet research suggests that contemporary students do not learn this skill through traditional teaching methods and teaching has not adapted to their specific needs.Similar to Critical thinking pillar wiki (20)
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Teaching Strategies to Promote Critical thinking-8611-UNIT 3
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- 1. Critical Thinking in the 21st Century by Eric Starr, Hollie Keesee, and Kelli Hudnall
- 2. What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
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