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What is Critical Thinking (and Reading) and its difference from reflective thinking?
Thinking happens naturally. You don’t make it happen - it just does.
Critical thinking is clear, reasonable, reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.
give characteristics of Critical Thinking
Skepticism
Examining assumption
Challenging reason
Uncovering biases
What is logic?
The word logic comes from the Ancient Greek logike, referring to the science or art of reasoning
6 questions in logical thinking
What’s happening?
Why is it important?
What don’t I see?
How do I know?
Who is saying it?
What else? What if?
Evaluating information with critical thinking
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Examine arguments
Clarify thinking
Cultivate “habits of mind”
is a way of tracking your thinking while reading. It entails marking the text and recording what you are thinking either in the margins or perhaps on Post-it notes.
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your goal is to identify and examine the hard facts. You can use the spectrum of authority
strategy for this purpose.
Examine Authority
When you use critical thinking to evaluate information, you need to _______ your thinking to yourself and likely to others. Doing this well is
mainly a process of asking and answering probing questions, such as the logic questions discussed earlier.
Clarify thinking
How do you evaluate information with critical thinking?
What is the purpose?
What question are we trying to answer?
what point of view is being expressed?
What assumptions are we or others making?
What are the facts and data we know, and how do we know them?
What are the concepts we’re working with?
What are the conclusions, and do they make sense?
What are the implications?
____________ are the personal commitments, values, and standards you have about the principle of
good thinking.
Habits of MInd
