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Scientific American: Baloney Detection -- How to draw boundaries between science and pseudoscience, Part I
By Michael Shermer - I then explain that we need to check things out for ourselves and, short of that, at least to ask basic questions that get to the heart of the validity of any claim. This is what I call baloney detection, in deference to Carl Sagan, who coined the phrase "Baloney Detection Kit." To detect baloney--that is, to help discriminate between science and pseudoscience--I suggest 10 questions to ask when encountering any claim (Added: 6-Oct-2003 Hits: 780 )Helping Students Assess Their Thinking
By Richard Paul and Linda Elder - There are two essential dimensions of thinking that students need to master in order to learn how to upgrade their thinking. They need to be able to identify the "parts" of their thinking, and they need to be able to assess their use of these parts of thinking , as follows: new (Added: 23-Mar-2006 Hits: 455 )Incorporating Critical Thinking Skills Development into ESL/EFL Courses
By Andy Halvorsen - Critical thinking is not an easy concept to define as it can mean quite different things to different people in different contexts and cultures. This article is intended to help teachers who are interested in developing and encouraging critical thought in their language classrooms. new (Added: 27-Sep-2006 Hits: 179 )Applying Critical Thinking- An Important Survival Skill
By Robert Bacal - In order to think more critically, we must be willing to identify and explore our own emotional positions on issues, and our biases and "perceptual goggles". Interestingly enough increasing our own awareness of these factors with respect to particular problems helps us avoid ineffective decisions, while at the same time, helping us learn about ourselves pop (Added: 14-Oct-2000 Hits: 8593 )Distinguishing Between Inert Information, Activated Ignorance, Activiated Knowledge
By Richard Paul and Linda Elder - Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, distorted experience supports distortion, self-deluded experience supports self-delusion. We, therefore, must not think of our experience as sacred in any way but, instead, as one important dimension of thought that must, like all others, be critically analyzed and assessed. new (Added: 23-Mar-2006 Hits: 399 )Accentuating the Positive in Critical Thinking
By Robert H. Ennis - In his interesting and stimulating paper, Peter Carbone argues that political empowerment of parents, which is a goal for both conservatives and many in the new left, is incompatible with the goal of critical thinking, which also is a goal at least for many in the new left. In order to sustain this point, he takes a strong sense of critical thinking, to use Richard Paul's term, and cites a number of instances of parental opposition... (Added: 17-Nov-2003 Hits: 1021 )Related Categories:
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