Critical Thinking
Contents
Critical Thinking Wiki for Dr. Alfino's students
Knowledge, Perspective, Inquiry Assignments
This semester we're piloting two new assignments on Knowledge aquisition and Perspective/Bias to prepare students for their research assignment.
Wikipediaassignmentv2.doc Here's the worksheet for the Wikipedia assignment on knowledge aquisition.
Spring 2007 Research Topic Search
We'll start working on narrowing topics after Spring Break.
In the Fall semester, the following topics were chosen: Immigration Reform, Marriage Reform, AP courses in High School, Media Bias, Sex Trafficing, Sex Offender Notification Laws, Global Warming, Performance Enhancing Drugs, and Stem Cell Research. These topics all worked well.
The two basic requirements for good topics are: 1) There must be reasonable differences of opinion about how to think about the topic. 2) The topic must be researchable.
Study Question Collaboration
Follow this link to the Critical Thinking Study Question Collaboration Page, where you can post your answers to the study questions, edit answers and comment upon them. If you all do a good job with this, everyone does better on the test, and I get to make the course harder for the next batch of students!
