RW 1-3

• Critical thinking is complex thought process - reasoned judgements, assess the way you think, and solve problems effectively.
• The critical reader looks at text with an open mind
• A critical reader asks questions about what they read
• A critical reader analyses information to make sense of it
• Non-critical thinking - Happens when one accepts the things b e i ng told without examining them.
• Critical Thinking - The ability to analyse arguments and ideas, evaluate evidence, and draw conclusions based on reasoning.
• Remembering - recognize and recall (Taxonomy)
• Understanding: constructing meaning from oral, graphic and written messages. (Taxonomy)
• Applying: use of information in a new way. (Taxonomy)
• Analyzing - distinguish between parts, relation, structure and purpose ( Taxonomy)
• Creating - put elements together to form a coherent whole or make an original product. (Taxonomy)
• Evaluating - make judgments and justify decisions. (Taxonomy)
• Benjamin Bloom - created Bloom's taxonomy
• Lorin Anderson - Bloom's former student, published revision to original taxonomy
• Synthesis - changed into "creating" in new taxonomy.
• High order thinking skills - composed of creating, evaluating, and analysing
• Low order thinking skills - composed of remembering, understanding, and applying
• Deductive method - generalized idea to specific ideas
• Inductive method - specific ideas to general idea
• Brainstorming - develop new ways of thinking, activate knowledge exchange ideas.
• Idea List - listing ideas
• Idea map - visual representation of ideas and connections with one another
• Graphic Organizer - visual representation of concepts
• Graphic Organizer - helps in structuring information into organization patterns
• Venn Diagram - compare and contrast ideas and events
• Spider Map - aka semantic map
• Spider Map - investigate and enumerate various aspects of a central idea. center idea diagonal lines
• Problem-Solution Map - problem and how it can be solved (case sensitive)
• Timeline - chronological order of events in a long bar labeled with dates.
• Comparative Timeline - two sets of events in a timeline
• Linear Timeline - one set of events in a timeline
• Plot Diagram - events in a story. major parts of the plot
• Series of Events Chain - logical sequence of events
• Fishbone Map - used to understand the causal relationship of a complex phenomenon. shows factors
• Cycle - series of events interact to produce results repeatedly.
• Persuasion Map - Map out arguments and evidence that prove a viewpoint.
• Topic Outline - uses words/phrases entries
• Sentence Outline - uses complex sentences entries
• Network Tree - uses hierarchy, classification, and branching
• Outlining - is a formal system