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In our text, Paul & Elder (2012), talk about the various stages of critical thinking.  As it is with many things, you start out as an Unreflective Thinker and work your way up to being the Accomplished Thinker.  You will work on this as a part of your assignment this week as far as what stages there are and where you would consider yourself.  The goal is to understand where you are and what you need to do (or not do) to get to the next levels.
To this effort, our authors have provided ten strategies to help you get there.  They include:
1. Use “wasted” time
2. Handle a problem a day
3. Internalize intellectual standards
4. Keep an intellectual journal
5. Practice intellectual strategies
6. Reshape your character
7. Deal with your ego
8. Redefine the way you see things
9. Get in touch with your emotion
10. Analyze group influences on your life (Paul & Elder, 2012)
In addition to those, this link provides some others that are also helpful.
Class, after reflecting on this list and reading the text, which two of these strategies do you think would help you the most and that you could implement in your thinking right away?  Why did you make the selections you did?  What are some of the ways you could go about implementing them?
Select one of your courses and try to write out the most fundamental, the most significant concept in the course and then make a list of ways in which you can use this idea in your life. Or make a list of important questions that thinkers within the field of study might ask. Write out your answer or explain orally.
Watch “TEDTalks: Margaret Heffernan – Dare to Disagree” located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.(12 min. 53 sec.)
Consider the following while you watch the video:

How can you incorporate or how      have you incorporated these concepts into your own decision making?
Which of the ideas is most      helpful for you in your own critical thinking and why?

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