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- Mastering Critical Thinking Skills: A Comprehensive Guide -

Learn the importance of critical thinking, traits to nurture, and how to integrate it into your life. Test your skills with puzzles and discussion. Improve logic and reasoning for rational conclusions. -

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- Mastering Critical Thinking Skills: A Comprehensive Guide -

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  1. Critical Thinking Skills The TGIF Team David Russ * Mahmud Zaman * Suzanne Zaman COM 515 Professor Charles Parker

  2. Introduction What is Critical Thinking Why Critical Thinking is Important What Traits Must be Nurtured to Think Critically Suzanne Zaman Topics • Test Your Skills • Puzzles to Consider • Recognizing Critical Thinking Skills • Mahmud Zaman • Evaluate • Integrating Critical Thinking Into Your Life • Discussion • David Russ

  3. Critical Thinking An Organized Thought Process That Incorporates Logic and Reason to Come To A Rational Conclusion.

  4. Empathy & Humility Courage & Perseverance What Characteristics Need to Be Nurtured to Foster Critical Thinking?

  5. Where Do We Begin? How Do We Distinguish Fact From Opinion?

  6. Fractured FarmlandHow Many Rectangles Can Be Formed?Remember, A Square Is a Rectangle. Logic & Significance

  7. Fractured FarmlandHow many rectangles can be formed?Remember, A Square is a Rectangle. First, delineate the rectangles in some manner. Then, group the various rectangles.

  8. Fractured FarmlandHow many rectangles can be formed?Remember, A Square is a Rectangle. 1 2 3 4 5 6 (1+2) (1+3) (3+4) (3+5) (5+6) (1+3+5) (1+2+3+4) (2+4) (3+4+5+6) (4+6) (1+2+3+4+5+6) (2+4+6)

  9. Measure the Water • Presume you have 2 unmarked containers. • One holds 5 cups, the other 3. • By using only these 2 containers, isolate 1 cup of water. Hint: This puzzle will also work if the smaller cup is a 2 cup measure, or a 4 cup measure.

  10. Measure the WaterSolution • Fill the 3 cup container full of water & empty it into the 5 cup container. • Fill the 3 cup container again and empty as much as you can into the 5 cup container. • There will be 1 cup left in the 3 cup container.

  11. Become a Master Thinker • So, how do we make the Journey from Unreflective Thinker to Master Thinker?

  12. The Journey Begins • Critical Thinking is a Journey, not a Destination. • Plateaus master advanced practicing beginning challenged unreflective

  13. Focus, Focus, Focus • Focus on one specific problem at a time. • At work scenario

  14. Discussion • What kinds of distortions can make critical thinking difficult? • How can we learn to recognize personal biases that are not based in fact?

  15. References Richard, Paul & Elder, Linda. (2000). Critical Thinking: Nine Strategies for Everyday Life, Part1. Retrieved from www.apollolibrary.com July 2, 2003. Celuch, Kevin & Slama, Mark. (1999). Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for the 21st Century: An Advertising Principles Case Study, 74(3), 134-139. Retrieved from www.apollolibrary.com June 30, 2003 Critical Thinking Consortium Website provides intellectual standards in Critical Thinking, research, scholarship and instruction. (http://www.criticalthinking.org.) The Math Forum website provided puzzles and various hints concerning critical thinking. (http://mathforum.org)

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