1. Critical Thinking
Freshmen Seminar

2. 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

3. 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.)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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