Fall 2010 Critical Thinking First Field Notes

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1 Mark Alfino
2 Today my roomate asked why I liked the show Entourage so much, after seeing that I had the entire show on DVD. I realized right away that this would be a definite "reflective situation" in my day. I then thought about the five disciplines of thought and tried to go over them in my head. Although I wasn't totally succesful doing this, I was able to remember some of the disciplines. My personal "voice" has always been natural to me, so I found it very easy to tell him that the reason why I love Entourage so much is because it is extremely funny, very entertainiing, contains great characters, as well as having extremely great writers. I expected a response from him, remembering how important it is to respect and understand others' "critical responses" and personal "views." We were able to agree that he could watch the show at some point, seeing as how we respected each others views.
3 Yesterday, my friends and I were having a conversation about movies. One of my friends announced that he liked the movie Up. I then agreed with him but added that I thought the movie was really sad. He asked "why" which turned our conversation into a reflective situation. I then made the claim that Up was a sad movie because the little old lady (who shares the same name as me) dies in the beginning. He critically responded with his point of view, which was the complete opposite of mine. He thought that that part of the movie was extremely boring. As the conversation ended we both came to an agreement that the beginning of the movie isn't very good and it's a good idea to skip that part altogether when watching the movie.
4 Ellie Toscan
5 Ian Bickel
6 Yesterday as I was on the phone with my dad, the subject of buying a new phone came up. In this conversation, I gave my explanation as to why I needed to buy the Droid 2. By stating that my phone's vibrate mode does not work and that it duplicates texts, I transformed our phone call into a reflexive situation. He quickly turned this conversation into an argument when he asked me why I could not simply wait until my phone plan was up to get a new one. At this point in the conversation, it was clear that we had two clashing opinions on the topic of buying a new phone. Unfortunately for me, I was not fast enough to reply to what he had stated because I was using my critical thinking skills to come up with a well thought out response. Also, I had to keep in mind that my choice of words was crucial while talking with my dad being that he grew up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. He knows the true value of a dollar and of hard work. His past experiences as well as the social norms that he abides to effects the way that he thinks leaving me with very few options to win my side of the argument. I was not able to get out one legitimate rationale to end the argument before my dad said, "deal with what you have, end of story." Although I was not able to immediately buy a new Droid 2, we agreed upon buying one for me as soon as my plan is up.

Mark Alfino

Today my roomate asked why I liked the show Entourage so much, after seeing that I had the entire show on DVD. I realized right away that this would be a definite "reflective situation" in my day. I then thought about the five disciplines of thought and tried to go over them in my head. Although I wasn't totally succesful doing this, I was able to remember some of the disciplines. My personal "voice" has always been natural to me, so I found it very easy to tell him that the reason why I love Entourage so much is because it is extremely funny, very entertainiing, contains great characters, as well as having extremely great writers. I expected a response from him, remembering how important it is to respect and understand others' "critical responses" and personal "views." We were able to agree that he could watch the show at some point, seeing as how we respected each others views.

Yesterday, my friends and I were having a conversation about movies. One of my friends announced that he liked the movie Up. I then agreed with him but added that I thought the movie was really sad. He asked "why" which turned our conversation into a reflective situation. I then made the claim that Up was a sad movie because the little old lady (who shares the same name as me) dies in the beginning. He critically responded with his point of view, which was the complete opposite of mine. He thought that that part of the movie was extremely boring. As the conversation ended we both came to an agreement that the beginning of the movie isn't very good and it's a good idea to skip that part altogether when watching the movie.

Ellie Toscan

Ian Bickel

Yesterday as I was on the phone with my dad, the subject of buying a new phone came up. In this conversation, I gave my explanation as to why I needed to buy the Droid 2. By stating that my phone's vibrate mode does not work and that it duplicates texts, I transformed our phone call into a reflexive situation. He quickly turned this conversation into an argument when he asked me why I could not simply wait until my phone plan was up to get a new one. At this point in the conversation, it was clear that we had two clashing opinions on the topic of buying a new phone. Unfortunately for me, I was not fast enough to reply to what he had stated because I was using my critical thinking skills to come up with a well thought out response. Also, I had to keep in mind that my choice of words was crucial while talking with my dad being that he grew up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. He knows the true value of a dollar and of hard work. His past experiences as well as the social norms that he abides to effects the way that he thinks leaving me with very few options to win my side of the argument. I was not able to get out one legitimate rationale to end the argument before my dad said, "deal with what you have, end of story." Although I was not able to immediately buy a new Droid 2, we agreed upon buying one for me as soon as my plan is up.

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