23 May 2007

Critical Thinking

"Critical thinking is deciding rationally what to or what not to believe"
Norris, Stephen P.

"Crtitical thinking is careful and deliberate determination of whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgement"
Moore and Parker
"Critical thinking skills: understanding the meaning of a statement, judging ambiguity, judging whether an inductive conclusion is warrented, and judging whether statements made by authorities are acceptable"
Smith
I think all these statements represent what I think critical thinking is because to me critical thinking is when you take what is put in front of you and evaluate the information for yourself and intorduce your views on the issue. This is what we did in hypertext #1 and what we will have to do in hypertext #2 and we have to learn not to take everything at face value.

2 comments:

Betsy said...

Critical thinking has to be in your own words. I agree that it taking the information you are given and processing it into your own opinion and viewpoints.

deb said...

I totally agree with your statement that we have to learn to not take everything at face value. I think it is important for us to question everything in this day and age. Especially when we are forming an opinion on the topic.