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Tine Reimers helps us define the term critical thinking and truly start developing our students’ skills.
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Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
Vancouver Island University
Defining critical thinking (and the inherent challenges when we want to improve critical thinking in our students, without actually agreeing, collectively, on what we mean)
Different disciplines define critical thinking differently than each other
Difficulty in the concrete way in how to get students to think critically in the discipline-specific way that I’m trying to develop…
HANDOUT: Taxonomy of [some] critical thinking theories
* Developmental
– what gets emphasized?
– a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
* Learning styles / bio-neurological models of thought
Article from Wired: All you need to know about learning styles…
– what gets emphasized?
– a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
* Categories of cognitive skills
– what gets emphasized?
– a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
* Processes of self (in culture and society)
– what gets emphasized?
– a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
Episode with stephenbrookfield/15
[Correction: I said I was listening to the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, but I meant that I was listening to the Inside Higher Ed podcast on competency-based programs]
Rabbit holes are a way of thinking… and we don’t give our students enough chances to do that type of thinking in foundational classes.
ARTICLE: First day questions for learner-centered classrooms, by Gary Smith, University of New Mexico
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