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Critical Thinking Links
Critical Thinking
Across the Curriculum Longview Community College The intent of this
site is to provide fellow faculty members in every discipline with the most
complete resources for integrating critical thinking into their classes. The
resources are categorized by discipline with an additional category for the
core resources which are applicable to all the disciplines.
Mission: Critical
This site assembled by the Institute for Teaching and Learning at San Jose
State University addresses an array of critical thinking topics, including how
to teach students to think critically. Mission: Critical is an interactive
tutorial for critical thinking, in which you will be introduced to basic
concepts through sets of instructions and exercises. Formal instructional
materials have been kept to a minimum, in order to take advantage of Mission:
Critical's interactive format. Through immediate reinforcement for right and
wrong answers to a series of increasingly complex exercises, you will begin to
utilize the essential tools of intellectual analysis.
Critical Thinking Guide From
the California Academic Press. Even if you don't actually use this as a course
evaluation tool, it can be a guide to help you explore the extent to which your
courses promote critical thinking.
Critical Thinking: What
Can It Be? This is a "quick read" collection of thoughts on
critical thinking, characterized by pithy quotes and bullet point definitions.
Included is a useful table that compares ordinary thinking to critical
thinking. Not highly definitive or comprehensive,but very appealing to the
right-brainers among us.
The
Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University, An excellent
source of online resources for teaching critical thinking at any level, and of
information on the many seminars, workshops, and conferences offered by the CCT,
including its weekend institutes for educators in Seattle and San Diego (each
spring), and the three-day International Conference on Critical Thinking at
Sonoma State (late July or early August each summer).
Critical
Thinking on the Web Maintained by a professor at the University of
Melbourne, Critical Thinking On The Web offers an extensive, annotated
directory of resources dealing with the broad topic of critical thinking. In
addition to a useful top ten that includes such web sites as Critical Thinking:
What it is and Why it Counts? and Skeptics.Com, the directory offers dozens of
headings on related topics such as Great Critical Thinkers, Statistics and
Probability, Language and Thought, as well as listings of journals, electronic
mailing lists, bibliographies, and the like. Mind provoking and complete, there
is an index of specific content categories for easy access.
Problem-Based Learning An
overview of problem based learning in the chemical engineering program at
McMaster University. Particularly appropriate for application in large
classrooms. A fine appendix of books and resources to help you with problem
based learning.
Contructivist Learning Design
By George W. Gagnon, Jr. and Michelle Collay. This paper represents a
collaborative effort of two educators to articulate a constructivist approach
to "designing for learning" rather than planning for teaching.
Ongoing collaborative research with teachers is presented in their
Constructivist Learning Design Study. The authors believe that a focus on
learning is needed if teachers are to implement a constructive approach to
thinking about day-to-day learning by the students.
Contextual Teaching and
Contextual Learning An interactive, web-based model for the
professional development of teachers in contextual teaching and learning. The
purpose of this site is to provide a means to gather information regarding the
project and its activities, which can then be applied to your specific teaching
situation.
Problem-Based
Learning at the University of Delaware This University of Delaware
site is probably the most comprehensive web page on problem-based learning
(PBL). According to one of the site developers and PBL researcher, Barbara
Duch, "Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that
challenges students to 'learn to learn,' working cooperatively in groups to
seek solutions to real world problems.
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