Week 5

Welcome to Week 5 (February 22nd - 27th, 2016) or the last week of Critical Thinking For Language Studies !!

This week you will do one task and one final presentation in class. Details of your presentation will be published as a separate post. Here's your task.

Task -

What is Socratic questioning and how does it differ from  other types of questioning? 

Please post your response before March 5, 2014. 

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Week 4

Dear critical thinkers,

Welcome to week 4 (February 15th - 20th, 2016) !

Till now, we have discussed the nature of critical thinking, critical thinking development and stages, definitions of critical thinking, and we have assessed our own critical thinking abilities.

This week, our task is online research on 'Bloom's Taxonomy'. Most of you are familiar with the concept, hence, you will be comfortable doing independent research.

Task - 

You will post your understanding  of  ' Bloom's Taxonomy' ,  various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy  and the revised version of it. You may use different websites or books in the library to compile this post. In this week you are also requested to comment on posts (any two) by your classmates. 

The deadline for your task is 21st February, 2016.

Best wishes.

Week 3

Dear all,

We welcome you to WEEK 3 ( February 8th - 13th, 2016) of Critical Thinking For Language Studies. 

Read the instructions carefully before you proceed. 

Critical Thinking Self Assessment

Please read the article located in Critical Thinking: A Stage Theory. Referring to the information and ideas presented in that article, please respond to the following:

1.  What is your sense of your own critical thinking skills?  (for ex:  strengths and weaknesses).  Which stage best describes your thinking?  How do you move forward?

2.  Have you used other tools for assessing your own reasoning skills?  If so, what kind of tools?  If not, can you think of possible tools?

3.  How is this kind of self-evaluation useful?

The three questions above are suggested starting points for discussion; there may be other aspects you would like to discuss, but please do refer to the article to show that you have read it and thought about it carefully.

Do your best to link your observations/comments to another participant's posting to create more cohesion in the thread.

Hence, your deadline for the following task is 18th February, 2016 Thursday.

Best wishes,