2016 - 17 Week 4

Dear critical thinkers,

Welcome to week 4 (January 27th - February 3rd, 2017) !

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 5th February, 2017.

Best wishes.

2016 - 17 Week 3

Week 3

Dear all,

Welcome to WEEK 3 ( January 16th - 21st, 2017) 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.

Class presentation: Your end of term presentation will be based on this task. Decide what stage of critical thinking you are at and what you could do to go to the next stage. Dates of the presentation will be declared next week.

Hence, your deadline for the following task is 26th January, 2017 Saturday.

Best wishes,

2016 - 17 Week 2

Week 2

Dear all,

For this week (Jan 9 - 15th, 2017), here's a task, watch the following videos and read the articles-

1. Critical Thinking 1
2. Critical Thinking 2
3. Defining Critical Thinking
4. Critical Thinking Definitions

Answer the following question based on it. -

Write a note on critical thinking.

Post the answer as a comment on the post here. You can go through what other people have posted and comment on it.

Your dead line for this task is 20th January, 2017.

Thanks.