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Critical Thinking Links
The University of Washington's Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
provides this Critical
and Integrative Thinking Rubric which educators across the institution
have begun developing in order to highlight the importance of integrating ideas
and perspectives across traditional boundaries of viewpoint, practice, and
discipline.
Critical
Thinking Across the Curriculum, from 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, 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 is 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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