1. Critical Thinking

2. What we’re used to … Memorize information
Read the prompt, answer the questions in the prompt
What’s wrong with this?
What we’re used to …

3. What is it? According to Robert Reich, former US secretary of labor:
“The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others”.
What is it?

4. Let’s break it down … 1. examine data Data can take different forms
Evidence, examples, observations, personal experience
Decide which data is relevant
Assimilate relevant data
Organize data in a logical pattern
Let’s break it down …

5. Let’s break it down … Define the problem Ask difficult questions
In other words, formulate your own prompt!
Ask difficult questions
Make connections to the bigger picture
Make deductive leaps
In other words, draw conclusions
Let’s break it down …