Week 1 Chapter 1 Flashcards
Why should we concern ourselves with thinking?
Because whenever we are dealing with human life, we are almost always dealing with thinking.
What is thinking?
Thinking is the way that the mind makes sense of the world.
How do we understand anything?
There is no way to understand anything except through thinking.
What does thinking tell us?
Thinking tells us: what there is, what is happening, what our problems are, what our options are, what threatens us, what is important, what is unimportant, who our friends are, who our enemies are, what our ‘history’ is, who we are, who loves us.
What does thinking determine?
Thinking determines: what we learn, how we learn, what we think is important to learn, what effort we should expend, what we think is true, what we think is false, how things should be viewed, whether our learning is of high or low quality, whether our learning is deep or superficial.
What does our thinking encompass?
Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us.
What should you do when faced with a problem?
Think of some problem. See if you can identify the thinking that leads to the problem.
What is the core of the curriculum?
Thinking is the core of the curriculum.
What is critical thinking?
Critical Thinking is a self-directed process by which we take deliberate steps to think at the highest level of quality.
What characterizes green thinking?
Green Thinking is an unconscious mixture of high quality and low quality thinking: spontaneous, subconscious, uncontrolled, impulsive, self-protecting, self-validating.
What is included in green thinking?
Includes ideas that are valid, as well as nonsense, confusion, stereotypes, prejudices. The key is that we cannot distinguish the difference between high and low quality thought in green thinking mode.
What is red thinking?
Red Thinking stops and assesses itself before going forward.
What are the characteristics of red thinking?
Disciplined, seeks the truth, self-assessing, self-correcting, probing.
What do we do in red thinking mode?
In red thinking mode, we actively work to eliminate prejudices, biases, dysfunctional thinking from our thinking. We rigorously apply intellectual standards to our thinking.
What does the critical thinking mind equal?
The Critical Thinking Mind = The Educated Mind.
What components are involved in substantive learning?
Read it, Write it, Hear it, Apply it, Say it.
