How on earth could Governor de Kretser say that there are no websites with evidence-based information about climate change? Maybe he’s never been onto the internet. Or maybe he has a naive faith in the power of good information.
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Climate change: we need more than good websites
Posted in Climate Change, Communication, Education, Evidence, Evidence-based decision, Global warming on April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
New book on teoría de la argumentación
Posted in Argument Mapping, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Education, Teaching, Uncategorized on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fernando Leal and colleagues at the University of Guadalajara have released Introducción a la Teoría de la Argumentación, an integrated selection of pieces intended to assist students and their teachers to focus on argumentation when reading and writing academic texts. The section Parte II: La téchnica de mapeo de argumentos (argument mapping) contains three pieces emerging [...]
How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Expertise, Reasoning, Teaching, Thinking on October 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The five main theories about how critical thinking skills are acquired are Formal Training, Theoretical Instruction, Situated Cognition, Practice, and Evolutionary Psychology. The most credible theory is Practice.
Some argument mapping reading
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Davies, a colleague of mine at the University of Melbourne and a energetic advocate of argument mapping in teaching critical thinking has published “Computer-assisted argument mapping: a rationale approach” in the journal Higher Education. In the article Martin describes using argument mapping in an upper-level Economics subject, and discusses how the students themselves regarded the [...]
The Rationale for Rationale™
Posted in Argument Mapping, Education, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Now available – the final version of my paper prepared in connection with the conference Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings in January this year. The paper is now called The Rationale for Rationale™.
Want Logic? Teach Logic
Posted in Education, Reasoning, Teaching on May 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
That’s the title the editor gave to a letter I had published in the Education Age (21 May 07), commenting on an opinion piece by my University of Melbourne colleague Marty Ross. Since they don’t make the letters to Education Age available online, I’m putting it up here. Marty’s piece generally was very good. He [...]
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 [...]
Argument Mapping in Introduction to Philosophy
Posted in Argument Mapping, Education on December 14, 2006 | 5 Comments »
For many years the only university subject I’ve been teaching has been Critical Thinking: The Art of Reasoning, at the University of Melbourne. This is one-semester subject devoted almost entirely to improving reasoning, argument and critical thinking skills – a kind of “boot camp” for rational thinkers. This subject has been the environment in which [...]
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 [...]
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