Think critically 3rd edtion facione gittens 2016 chapter 01

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Chapter 1
The Power of Critical Thinking

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Learning Outcomes
• Explain why critical thinking is important in
a world filled with risk and uncertainty by
supplying reasons and examples that
relate to you own life, to the well-being of
your community, and to the preservation of
a free and open society

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Learning Outcomes
• Explain why a strong critical thinker's
healthy sense of skepticism is not the
same as negativity and cynicism. From
your own experience supply examples

showing the unfortunate results of a failure
of critical thinking as here defined

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Learning Outcomes
• Using the "Holistic Critical Thinking
Scoring Rubric" as your tool for evaluation,
evaluate the quality of the critical thinking
evident in samples of written material and
explain which elements in the written
material led you evaluate it as you did

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Chapter Opening Video

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Risk and Uncertainty Abound
• Critical thinking and a free society
• The one and the many

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Critical Thinking and a Free Society
• If information is power, then controlling the
flow of information is wielding power
• High value on freedom
• Higher education in America is
internationally admired and yet feared
• Strong critical thinking demands a healthy
skepticism of government power

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Discussion Question
• Employers prioritize skills in critical
thinking and communication when
evaluating job applicants

– Describe to a prospective employer your
critical thinking skills and communication
skills?
• Use examples

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The One and the Many
• Individual decisions can seem isolated and
when they accumulate, they can have a
far-reaching impact
• Historical evidence

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What Do We Mean by Critical
Thinking?
• Expert consensus conceptualization
• Critical thinking does not mean negative
thinking

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Expert Consensus
Conceptualization
• Delphi method
• Strong critical thinking is essential to
consistently successful decision making
• Failure of critical thinking often contributes
to some of the saddest & unfortunate
accidents
• Critical thinking is a pervasive human
phenomenon
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Critical Thinking Does Not Mean
Negative Thinking
• Isn’t about bashing what people believe
just to show how clever we are
• Intended to be used to seek truth with
intellectual energy and with integrity
• Being skeptical without being cynical

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Critical Thinking is both Skills and
Mindset

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Evaluating Critical Thinking
• Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric

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Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring
Rubric
• Tool designed to help us with this process
of evaluation
• Evaluative judgments will improve, and the
ability to explain the judgments will
improve

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Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring
Rubric

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Sketchnote Video

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