Slide 1:Trey McCray CS114-08AU


Slide 2:Alicia Geisenhaver Wayne Brush Unit 3 Seminar Royal Court!


Slide 3:Housekeeping


Slide 4:What is Critical Thinking?


Slide 5:l What is Critical Thinking? Cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions needed to effectively: Identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments and truth claims Discover and overcome personal prejudices and biases


Slide 6:l What is Critical Thinking? Cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions needed to effectively: Formulate and present convincing reasons in support of conclusion To make reasonable, intelligent decisions about what to believe and what is true


Slide 7:When do we not use Critical Thinking?


Slide 8:l Blindly reproducing old learned reactions Blindly believing TV commercials Blindly trust political commercials Blindly accept and trusting text books and media without questionings When do we not use critical thinking?


Slide 9:l Contextual Sensitivity Perspective Thinking Tolerance for Ambiguity Three Things Used for Critical Thinking?


Slide 10:l Contextual Sensitivity: being sensitive to types about people of particular group and accept others at face value unconditionally. Perspective Thinking: trying to get into other person’s head, or walk in other’s shoes to see the world way that person sees it Tolerance for Ambiguity: ability to accept multiple interpretations of same situation Three Things Used for Critical Thinking?


Slide 11:l Perception Assumptions Emotion Language Argument Fallacy Logic Problem Solving What are the Major Concepts for CT?


Slide 12:Will your College Experience Enhance your Critical Thinking ? If so, how?


Slide 13:l Achievement of a college education will: Help you learn to learn Teach you to think for yourself Lead away from naïve acceptance of authority Lead above self defeating relativism Look beyond ambiguous contextualism Your Correct, College will Enhance your CT!


Slide 14:l In Classroom…… Understand materials you are studying Critically evaluate what you are learning Develop your own arguments of particular issues In Work Place Problem-solving Analyze information, draw appropriate conclusions In Life Avoid making foolish decisions Help to free us from unexamined assumptions, dogmas and prejudices So…..the benefits of critical thinking?


Slide 15:l If critical thinking is so Important, why is Uncritical thinking is so Common?


Slide 16:l Lack of relevant background information Poor reading skills Bias Prejudice Superstition Peer Pressure Face-saving Resistance to change Selective perception Rationalization Scapegoating Barriers of Critical Thinking?


Slide 17:l Egocentrism: Self-centered thinking Sociocentrism: Group-centered thinking Stereotyping Unwarranted assumptions Wishful thinking Con’t…Barriers of Critical Thinking “The Major Issues”


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Slide 19:1.Alexander Rogers 2.Alicia Geisenhaver 3.Carolyn Ford 4.Christopher Burchell 5.Christopher Purtill 6.Dante Turner 7.David Price 8.Dipakkumar Macwan 9.Donovin Regitz 10.Gilberto Camacho 11.Hiawatha Lyles III 12.Jessica Sterling 13.Joe Lohr 1.Julie Linder 2.Kyle Leemasters 3.Lavann Suttles 4.Margie Thompson 5.Michael Romero 6.Munson Ingraham 7.Robert Cales 8.Shaun Peoples 9.Shawn Cook 10.Simon Turner 11.Wayne Brush II 12.Wayne Matthew 13.John Cashen Team Blue Team Red


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