Critical Thinking: What Is It, Anyway? - 3 views
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Thinking is giving mental attention to something that doesn’t require assessment or response from the thinker.
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critical thinking guides our assessment of and our reactions to information being considered
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"I'd like to briefly take a look at using critical thinking specifically for reading blogs and tweets (although this method could apply to just about anything). While there isn't an official formula for doing this, I'd like to suggest using "The Five W's" that we learn in elementary school as guidelines for inquiry; they include Who?, What?, Where?, When?, Why?, and (sometimes) How?. Instead of using the Five W's for developing content (they're the basics for writing a successful news piece), use the Five W's to analyze any post/piece of writing. Here's how to get started:
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Analysis of critical thinking. Very good resource for evaluation as well.