Critical Thinking

• This allows you to make reasoned judgements, assess the way you think, and solve problems effectively.

  Critical Thinking
• This happens when you simply accept the things you are told without examining them.

  Non-critical Thinking
• Who created the Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?

  Benjamin Bloom
• How many levels in Blooms Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?

  six
• Who revised the old Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?

  Lorin Anderson
• What's inside the Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?

  Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
• What's inside the Bloom's New Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?

  Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create
• Why Lorin Anderson publish a revision to the original taxonomy of the cognitive domain?

  To make it more relevant
• What are the qualities of a Critical Thinker?

  Inquisitive, Investigator, Open-minded, Evaluator
• This Quality of a Critical Thinker is where he/she asks genuine questions that lead to a better understanding of things and events.

  Inquisitive
• This Quality of a Critical Thinker is where he/she does not settle for a superficial level of interpretation instead, he/she investigates and digs deeper

  Investigator
• This Quality of a Critical Thinker is where he/she not necessarily mean looking for faults; it is rather about being open-minded to different ideas to arrive at a better judgement.

  Open-minded
• This Quality of a Critical Thinker is where he/she does not accept information until it is verified.

  Evaluator
• Name the 6 Tips to Become a Better Critical Thinker.

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  Accept that you may not always be right

  Do your research

  Collaborate with other Critical Thinkers

  Question Assumptions

  Know your biases

  Think in reverse
• This tip to become a critical thinker uses your mistakes to learn and grow.

  Accept that you may not always be right
• This tip to become a critical thinker learns fact from fiction.

  Do your research
• This tip to become a critical thinker exposes yourself to new thoughts and ideas.

  Collaborate with other Critical Thinkers
• This tip to become a critical thinker are the effect they have on objectivity.

  Know your Biases
• This tip to become a critical thinker is if you think X caused Y, ask yourself what if Y caused X.

  Think in reverse