When responding to your classmates, please provide feedback on their examples of good and poor critical thinking skills. Discuss additional ways one can think more critically. Each participation post should be a minimum of 75 words.
- Explain at least five elements of critical thinking that you found in the reading material.
Some elements of critical thinking are; looking for facts without prejudice, willingness to ask the right questions, understanding that emotions, intuition, and reasoning are valuable tools, ability to evaluate arguments no matter who presents them, it is a skill that is learned and can always be improved, and it is a skill that is aimed at better reasoning. (Plencner, 2014)
- Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library, and find an example in which good critical thinking skills are being demonstrated by the author or speaker. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates good critical thinking skills.
This is article is titled, Why America’s Obsession with STEM education is dangerous. This article is speaking caution against all STEM education programs for our educational system. While there is a need for more STEM graduates and career growth is expected to rise drastically, we should not remove the other programs and classes from the curriculum. This is a good article showing good critical thinking skills. The author recognizes the needs of the nation but also looks at the other side of the equation and looks at other avenues as an option. The overall take away is that there is a need for all types of education and careers and as there are so many jobs that cross from one discipline to another. (Zakaria, 2015)
- Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library and find an example in which the author or speaker lacks good critical thinking skills. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates the absence of good, critical thinking skills.
The article Brave Enough to be Angry is lacking in good critical thinking skills. This article is about how women are being forced to pander to the male dominated society and that it is typically not ok for women to show any anger without being subjected to a host of bad publicity and ridicule. This is an article based mostly on emotions and very little fact or data. This author uses inflammatory and negative language and tries to establish an overall ‘girl power’ mentality with the article. There is no objectivity, other point of view listed, and the author is not thinking critically. (West, 2017)
References:
Plencner, A. (2014). CRITICAL THINKING AND THE CHALLENGES OF INTERNET. Communication Today, 5(2), 4-18. Retrieved from sk/critical-thinking-and-the-challenges-of-internet/”>http://www.communicationtoday.sk/critical-thinking…
West, L. (2017, November 8). Brave Enough to Be Angry. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/opinion/anger-w…
Zakaria, F. (2015). Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-w…
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