critical thinking
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Critical Thinking presentation from Innovation Advancing EducationTRANSCRIPT
Chapel Hill Early CollegeStudent Presentation
Mr. Ippolito (Mr. I.)
September 17, 2014
Critical Thinking
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Overview
• What is Critical Thinking?• What is Not Critical Thinking?• What does a Critical Thinker do?• Critical Thinking Methodology• A Template for Problem Solving• Universal Intellectual Standards
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What is Critical Thinking?
“Focused organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the difference between fact and opinion.”
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What is Not Critical Thinking?
• Biased
• Distorted
• Partial
• Uninformed
• Prejudiced
Thinking that is…
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A Critical Thinker…
• Asks vital questions• Gathers and assesses relevant information• Comes to well reasoned conclusions and solutions• Tests relevant criteria and standards• Thinks openmindedly• Communicates effectively
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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Inductive Reasoning
• Process of constructing ideas from experience• Making meaning through experience• Categorization• Theory Building
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Deductive Reasoning
• Process of applying ideas or concepts to specific problems
• Application of ideas to experience in• Prediction• Planning• Problem Solving
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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Critical Thinking Methodology
• Use inductive and deductive reasoning• Analyze evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs• Evaluate major alternative points of view• Synthesize information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusions• Reflect critically on learning experiences• Make judgments and decisions
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A Template for Problem Solving
• Identify goals, purposes and needs
• Tackle problems one by one
• Study the problem
• Distinguish problems – Control and No Control
• Collect relevant information
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A Template for Problem Solving
• Carefully analyze and interpret information
• Determine your actions– Long term & Short term
• Evaluate Options– Advantages & Disadvantages
• Adopt a Strategy – Follow though
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Universal Intellectual Standards
• Clarity - Could you give me an example?• Accuracy - Is it really true?• Precision-Could you give me more details?• Relevance - How is that connected to the question?• Depth-Does answer address the complexities?• Breadth-Is there another way to look at this?• Logic - Does this make sense?• Fairness - Are we distorting information?
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Summary
• What is Critical Thinking?• What is Not Critical Thinking?• What does a Critical Thinker do?• Critical Thinking Methodology• A Template for Problem Solving• Universal Intellectual Standards
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Thank You!
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