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=Critical* and Creative Thinking Seminars - Faculty Training =

Files for the training course handouts
= Possible broader context for the CCT seminars =

= Training course syllabus =

= Desired outcomes for the seminars =

= What is critical thinking? = Richard Paul - 8 components of Critical Thinking

Browne and Keeley questions

Nyaya questions

Practical reasoning model

= Critical Thinking and Development = Perry

Bloom’s taxonomy

Generation NeXt reading

= Critical Thinking and Maharishi Vedic Science = Faculty Senate main points

Schafersman article on science and critical thinking

Critical thinking and intuition

= Relationship of Critical and Creative Thinking = Sternberg article

Harris article

= Teaching Logic = Introduction to logic ( Isabelle)

Logical fallacies chapter

Logical fallacies exercise

= Teaching Critical and Creative Thinking = Vardi article tables (same article as above) Bean Instructional Strategies for Teaching Critical Thinking – working with book chapters

= Critical Thinking and Information Literacy = Berkeley check-list

Ithaca College web-site with exercises http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

= Assessing Critical and Creative Thinking = Rubric

Alverno College model of self-assessment

= Developing CCT seminars = Differentiated Learning

Exercises for CCT seminar faculty training

 Reverse engineering course development model


Bean - Instructional strategies list

Critical Thinking 4-Step Checklist (Isabelle)

Evaluation Sieve for articles and product advertisements relating to emerging sustainable technologies (Mark Stimson)

Bugmapping, //A Creative Tool for Critical Thinking// (Mark Stimson)

*** [|critic] ** 1580s, "one who passes judgment," from M.Fr. critique (14c.), from L. criticus "a judge, literary critic," from Gk. kritikos "able to make judgments," from krinein "to separate, decide" (see [|crisis] ). Meaning "one who judges merits of books, plays, etc." is from c.1600. The English word always had overtones of "censurer, faultfinder." ** [|critical] ** 1580s, "censorious," from [|critic] + [|-al] (1). Meaning "pertaining to criticism" is from 1741. **Creative**, see Create: [|create] late 14c., from L. creatus, pp. of creare "to make, bring forth, produce, beget," related to crescere "arise, grow" (see [|crescent] ). Related: Created ; creating. **Think**[ing]: [|think] O.E. þencan "conceive in the mind, think, consider, intend" (past tense þohte, p.p. geþoht ), probably originally "cause to appear to oneself," from P.Gmc. *thankjan (cf. O.Fris. thinka, O.S. thenkian , O.H.G. denchen , Ger. denken , O.N. þekkja , Goth. þagkjan ); O.E. þencan is the causative form of the distinct O.E. verb þyncan "to seem or appear" (past tense þuhte, pp. geþuht ), from P.Gmc. *thunkjan (cf. Ger. dünken, däuchte ). Both are from PIE *tong- "to think, feel" which also is the root of [|thought] and [|thank]. The two meanings converged in M.E. and þyncan "to seem" was absorbed, except for archaic [|methinks] "it seems to me." Jocular pp. thunk (not historical, but by analogy of [|drink], [|sink] , etc.) is recorded from 1876. Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
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