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What is Critical Thinking?

Critical Thinking is a very important process for students to build upon throughout their college careers and beyond. Questions which may arise include the following:

  1. What is critical thinking?
  2. How can I benefit from the process?
  3. Is critical thinking a learning process?
  4. Since I have taken a course in Critical Thinking – what else do I need to know?
  5. How will critical thinking skills enhance my employability?
  6. Is critical thinking a cause and reaction assessment?

Critical Thinking is a process of how each one of us reactions to given situations or set of instructions and how judgments are made as a result.

Critical Thinking in Learning and Teaching

Listen to the broadcast above, or view the article on the National Public Radio website here: 50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching Superstar

Learning How to Think

by Jerome Corgier for "The Chronicle Review"

Critical Thinking

Click and watch this 2 minute Keynote Address on the topic of Critical Thinking.

 

Critical Thinking in the 21st Century

EdTech Team. (2013). Developing 21st-century critical thinkers [Infographic]. Retrieved from https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/25-ways-to-develop-21st-century-thinkers.html?m=0

Subjects: General Education