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Why Critical Thinking Is Important

Why Critical Thinking Is Important. Critical thinking is a skill. It is active interpretation and evaluation of observation, communication, information and argumentation. It takes time and effort to be a good critical thinker It’s a learned skill.

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Why Critical Thinking Is Important

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  1. Why Critical Thinking Is Important Critical thinking is a skill. It is active interpretation and evaluation of observation, communication, information and argumentation It takes time and effort to be a good critical thinker It’s a learned skill

  2. Critical thinking- LogicMethod and Principal

  3. Critical thinking- truth • Objective Truth • True regardless of viewer • Excepted truths • Truth is based on excepted definitions • Cat, dog, chair • Subjective truth • Truth varies by individual • Truth is formed my each persons experiences and belief systems • Love, justice, freedom • Subjective truth can have many definitions

  4. Critical Thinking-- Opinion • Conclusion drawn that are based on emotion, subjective thought and assumptions • The truth of the conclusion drawn is very unclear • Try to predict outcome with subjective evidence. • We can except others opinions without having to change ours…..ambiguity • Opinions have no verified support

  5. Critical thinking- Everyday life • Reflection • Challenged • Improved Thinking • Recognize Problems • Choose easy solutions We take control of our lives by knowing and improving our own method and process of thinking.

  6. College student– three stages of thinking • Dualism • Only right and wrong. • Relativism • All individual context. • No right and wrong • Commitment • All individual context • Not all context equal Not all situations are equally valid . Need to analyze each situation to come to the right conclusion

  7. Good Critical Thinking Characteristics

  8. Analytical • Logic support for decisions • Evaluate all arguments • Recognize faulty reasoning

  9. Communication • Knowing how to make your ideas know in multiple ways and situations • Languages • Cultures • Genders

  10. Research • Formulate the right questions • Interpret data • Evaluate

  11. Flexibility • Knowing that clear answers are not always available • Need to change question to fine answer • Sometimes there is no answer

  12. Open Minded Skepticism • Let evidence form conclusions • Question beliefs • Accept other ideas “Suspend our disbelief”

  13. Good Problem Solving • Seeker of EASY solutions • Open minded to solutions • Multiple solutions • See opposite sides—why not solution • Simplify the problem

  14. Collaborative Learning Develop relationships with people • Share knowledge (POV) • Pool experiences (Beliefs) • Instant feedback • View multiple options • Keep activate--communication

  15. Self- Development

  16. Self-Examined Life An unexamined life is not worth living- Socrates Know thyself- Greek saying • Deal with your problems • Put yourself in a good position • Develop skills to succeed

  17. Rational Life Plan • Lead a life that you choose and is not given to you. • Consider consequences before actions • Schedule for your life • Set goals • Challenging • Reachable

  18. Challenges We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily…demanded by the oppressed…For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.“ Martin Luther King, Jr Letters From a Birmingham Jail

  19. Democracy In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance Thomas Jefferson

  20. Barriers

  21. Three tired model • Experience • I witnessed a robbery • I went to this school • I worked at this company • Interpretation • This person was robber because • This school is bad, and this is why • This company should be shut down • Analysis • To avoid a robbery you should • This school needs new administration and teacher • When you start a new company you should avoid

  22. Type of Resistance • Ignore situations or questions- avoid • Get mad at situation or questions- anger • Take on popular responses to situations or questions- clichés • Deny that situations or question exist- denial • Not enough knowledge to address situations or questions- ignorance • Peer pressure answers the questions or situations for you- conformity • Never answering a situation or questions- struggling • Doing something else instead of addressing situation or questions- distraction

  23. Narrow Mindedness • Believe what they are told by perceived expert- Absolutism • Don’t want the hassle- Fear of challenge • What I think is more important than what other think- Egocentrism • Our race or culture’s thoughts are more important that yours- Ethnocentrism

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