Critical Thinking Freshmen Seminar

Critical Thinking Critical Thinking: It is a process Thinking about thinking in order to decide what to believe and how to behave It is a process Examples of critical thinking: How to put your groceries away How to pick your colleges How to answer job interview questions

Critical Thinking Metacognition: Rules to Critical Thinking The conscious attention to your thinking Rules to Critical Thinking Be open-minded to new ideas Don’t argue about things that you don’t know about Know when you need more information Be aware of the differences in people (gestures, languages, etc.)

Critical Thinking Know the difference of something that is true and might be true Question anything that doesn’t make sense Separate emotional and logical thinking Develop your own vocabulary that you understand and that is understood

Critical Thinking Mistakes in Critical Thinking Bias Make generalizations Making excuses/guilt trips Bias A tilt towards a particular point of view Where do you see bias? Newspaper TV News Magazines Bias will try to persuade you to agree with a certain point of view

Critical Thinking What is the growing need for critical thinking? World is changing to involve more technology, multi-media based, world-wide and connected state We need to think critically for communication world-wide In order to balance our world-wide connected economic systems, we need to think things critically In order to solve social issues like ethnic and religious wars, we need to think critically