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Analyze This! How to Deepen Your Critical Thinking Skills

Monday, March 07, 2016

Erika Gavitt

Student Success Workshop

Thinking critically about language and politics:

Where Can Critical Thinking Be Applied?

Let's brainstorm!

What is Critical Thinking?

When have you heard it? How is it used?

Science

Math

Media

Politics

Here's what the scholars have to say:

What are possible assignments in classes that might require us to use critical thinking? Come up with one example per person.

How to Deepen and Develop Your Critical Thinking:

Thinking Critically About the Argument: Donald Trump

*Immigration

1) Develop awareness:

It's good to react, but begin to consider why you might be reacting to information in certain ways. Where are your thoughts and feelings coming from?

2) Move beyond the "what":

Understanding what is being said is essential in learning, but the next step is to consider how something is being said and why it might be stated in certain ways.

3) Play the devil's advocate with yourself:

Knowing what you believe is important, but in order to have a well rounded view of situations in their entirety, consider other opinions and points of view.

Letting others in will allow you to broaden your knowledge.

4) Know the impact of your thoughts and actions:

Your actions and thoughts matter. If you take yourself seriously and consider the quality of your thoughts and opinions you might make more informed choices. This awareness could also help you understand others better.

- What is the problem at hand?

- What is Trump's proposed solution?

- What strategies, words, evidence does Trump use to support his argument?

"Critical thinking means making clear, reasoned judgments." Barry Beyer (1995)

"...involv[es] the ability to explore a problem, question, or situation; integrate all the available information about it; arrive a solution or hypothesis; and justify one's position." Warnick and Inch (1994)

is the ability to evaluate sources based on their evidence, its reliability, relevance, consistency, etc. Ken Petress (1998)

There isn't a single universal definition! Don't worry!

Thinking critically, where can we see the weaknesses in his argument?

How can people benefit from analyzing an argument or clip like this?

Lateral Thinking Questions:

Breaking Down the Current Taxonomy:

1) Which is heavier? 200 pounds of bricks or 200 pounds of feathers?

Creating: Generating new ideas, product, or views: Design a song, album, or website in response to...

Evaluating: Justifying a decision or course of action: Conduct a debate about an issue of special

interest.

Analyzing: Breaking down information into parts in order to explore understanding and relationships: Make a family tree showing relationships.

Applying: Using information in another familiar situation: Make up a puzzle or a game about the topic

Understanding: Explaining ideas or concepts:, Retell the story in your own words.

Remembering: Recalling information: Recite a poem, pneumonic (planets)

Lateral Thinking Questions:

Advertisements: Buyer Beware

Benjamin Bloom (1913-1999)

1) There are six eggs in a basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

  • American educational psychologist
  • Categorized the types of thinking we do into six groups

Try this! Brainstorm activities for at least three categories.

Evaluation: Appraise, critique, judge, justify,

argue, support

Synthesis: Categorize, generalize, reconstruct

Analysis: Compare/contrast, break down,

distinguish, select, separate

Application: Build, make, construct, model, predict, prepare

Comprehension: Summarize, convert, defend, paraphrase, interpret, give examples

Knowledge: Identify, describe, name, label, recognize, reproduce, follow

Lateral Thinking Questions:

Feminism: Two Approaches, Two Arguments

http://tinyurl.com/zjdhjnx

http://tinyurl.com/hxlc3cc

What are they saying? How are they saying it?

2) A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. How is this possible?

What are these ads selling? How are they selling it? Are they successful?

Have other questions? Is there any way in which I can help you?

Ice Breaker!

Lateral Thinking Questions:

Erika Gavitt

egavitt@fullcoll.edu

MW 10:45-11:45 1300 Building

4) Joe wants to go home but can't because the man in the mask is waiting for him. What is the situation?

Name:

Major:

If you could spend the rest of your life fighting for a specific cause, what cause would it be?

Or, one interesting fact about yourself.

With a partner: Discuss the quality of each argument. Which approach appeals to you? Why?

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