Josh Clark's List: critical thinking

• When you give them critical thinking skills, they will be able to find the necessary information for themselves
• • developing critical thinking skills is important
• • games can help develope critical thinking skills

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• We can all learn how to think more effectively. Most of the time, we make mistakes more or less without thinking
• • good advice
• Being aware of any sloppiness in your thinking is half way to avoiding them
• In our rush to draw conclusions from what we find out, we often miss out vital steps;

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• overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking.
• • very detailed but gets the point across

• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synth

  esizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.

  
  

   
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two components: 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior. It is thus to be contrasted with: 1) the mere acquisition and retention of information alone, because it involves a particular way in which information is sought and treated; 2) the mere possession of a set of skills, because it involves the continual use of them; and 3) the mere use of those skills ("as an exercise") without acceptance of their results.
• • different methods develop different viewpoints
• • conflictive if not viewed open mindedly
• People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically.

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