“Just Some Guy” wrote today: I recently stumbled on an excellent online article authored by yourself entitled “Teaching Critical Thinking“. I was wondering if you could take a moment of your valuable time to suggest a couple of books on the subject. I would like improve my critical thinking skills so I suppose the focus [...]
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Critical Thinking – Where to start?
Posted in Critical Thinking, Teaching on February 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Yep, that’s what we do…
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Reasoning, Teaching on February 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On the AILACT list, Michael Scriven wrote: Mark got in a dig about ‘speed reasoning’ my most popular course; perhaps I should mention that the first thing I say in the first session is, there’s no royal road to speed reasoning, you just have to become good at plain old slow reasoning first, and then [...]
Talk at Victorian Skeptics
Posted in Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Research, Skepticism on February 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone likely to be in Melbourne on Feb 19 is welcome to join the Victorian Skeptics for an informal talk: The abstract is Academic philosophers, like most professionals, think they’re pretty good at what they do. I’ll present some general reasons for scepticism on this score. Then I’ll focus on one particular respect in which [...]
Year in Ideas tidbits
Posted in Cognition, Critical Thinking, Decision Making on December 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Last week the New York Times published its “6th Annual Year in Ideas” in its Magazine. 81 bite-sized presentations of new ideas or trends; worth a read. Trouble is, not much of what we read is remembered for very long. Below I’ve listed the ones I’d like to be able to recall in a week or even [...]
Critical thinking in the secondary classroom
Posted in Critical Thinking, Education on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
An inspiring account from Kylie Sturgess of the Methodist Ladies College in Perth, Western Australia. Kylie was runner-up in the 2006 Australian Skeptics‘ Prize for Critical Thinking.
Lots means Lots
Posted in Critical Thinking, Education, Research on December 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
How do you help your students to achieve really worthwhile gains in critical thinking skills? We worked on this problem for about five years at the University of Melbourne. We wanted a method for improving critical thinking skills which demonstrably achieves substantial results. I’ll add now that we wanted a method which reliably acheives these [...]
Help is on the way
Posted in Critical Thinking, Education on November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In an email exchange with Jeff Ricker, who is putting together a good resource site on critical thinking for faculty at Scottsdale Community College, I sketched the following scenario: “I teach business studies, but my students are depressingly bad at basic critical thinking activities – for example they have trouble producing a piece of written [...]
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