ISD 200Week 5CRITICAL THINKING IMMIGRATION

INSTRUCTORS:Mari Acob-NashRyan Packard

Critical Thinking What is it?

Definitions "reasonable reflective thinking focused on

deciding what to believe or do“

“the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action”

Definitions “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment

which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based”

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

Definitions “thinking which helps you figure out

whether you should believe some claim and how strongly you should believe it”

Systematic way of thinking A thinking activity to create confidence in

that knowledge.

From Tim van Gelder, Teaching Critical Thinking: Lessons from Cognitive Science, www. Austhink.org

Importance Critical thinking is an important element

of all professional fields and academic disciplines

Importance Critical thinking includes identification

of prejudice, bias, propaganda, self-deception, distortion, misinformation, etc.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

Importance it enables one to analyze, evaluate,

explain, and restructure their thinking, thereby decreasing the risk of adopting, acting on, or thinking with, a false belief

How to gain this skill? skills includes observation,

interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and meta-cognition.

Skills Evidence through observation Context Relevant criteria for making the

judgment well Applicable methods or techniques for

forming the judgment Applicable theoretical constructs for

understanding the problem and the question at hand

How do teachers teach this? Strategies to teach:

Reflection Reasons Alternatives

Homework With your limited knowledge on critical

thinking in the US classrooms, please reflect on your current classes here at NSCC. Can you name and describe three methods that your teachers use to develop critical thinking in your classes?