Critical Thinking as a Cognitive Educational Technology

How to Improve Critical Thinking Using Educational Technology

Critical thinking is highly valued but difficult to teach effectively. The Reason! project at the University of Melbourne has developed the Reason!Able software as part of a general method aimed at enhancing critical thinking skills. Students using Reason!Able appear to make dramatic gains. This paper describes the challenge involved, the theoretical basis of the Reason! project, the Reason!Abl...

Strategic Thinking: Educational Use & Cognitive Foundation *

Strategic thinking is at the intellectual core of the calculus for the 21st century, which is not the mathematical calculus that emerged in the 17th century, but rather the logical calculus that was conceived in the same period by Leibniz, one of the two inventors of the mathematical calculus. Leibniz put great emphasis on a universal language to organize concepts, on rules to guide thinking an...

Critical Thinking as Disciplinary Practice

Critical thinking in psychology has traditionally focused on method-centered tasks such as the assessment of method use, data analysis, and research evidence. Although helpful in some ways, this form of critical thinking fails to provide resources for critically examining the scientific analytic foundation on which it rests and, when used exclusively, prohibits sufficiently critical analysis of...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Do current educational programs address critical thinking in nurse anesthesia?

Critical thinking skills are vital in any of the nursing and medical specialties. These skills can be taught using adult teaching methods and should be incorporated into all courses in the educational process. Unfortunately, some nurse anesthesia programs fail to adequately address critical thinking or the use of these skills. They often teach using rigidly structured models. This descriptive s...