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Critical-Thinking Games
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What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplinedprocess of actively and skillfully conceptualizing,applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluatinginformation gathered from, or generated by,observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, orcommunication, as a guide to belief and action.
*http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766
Break It Down
Most Important Word:
Whats My Name?:
Find My Family:
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Critical-Thinking Skills
o Analyzing: Separating or breaking a whole intoparts
o Discriminating: Recognizing differences orsimilarities among things or situations
o Information Seeking: Searching for evidence,facts, or knowledge by identifying relevantsources and gathering data from those sources
o Logical Reasoning: Drawing inferences or
conclusions that are supported in or justifiedby evidenceo Transforming Knowledge: Changing or
converting the condition, nature, form, orfunction of concepts
*B.K. Scheffer and M.G. Rubenfeld, A Consensus Statement on CriticalThinking on Nursing, Journal of Nursing Education , 39, 352-9 (2000).
Pattern Match: Roll a die.
Draw the number of cards shown on the die.
Create a pattern with the cards.
Explain the pattern to your friend.
See if your friend can match the pattern.
Let your friend have a turn.
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