Chris Green first pointed this out on July 5, 2012 and it was discussed on Tips. Chris' original post can be accessed through this link and you can get the rest of the thread from there: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07996.html
-Mike Palij New York University [email protected] P.S. Message #3 for today. If Manhattan is still above water tomorrow, I might post then, given that the transit system, the schools and colleges (at least the ones I'm affiliated with), and a bunch of other things are going to be closed. Damn, I knew I should have bought that kayak! 1/2 ;-) --------- Original Message ------------ On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:08:24 -0700, Michael Britt wrote: Fellow Tipsters, You may have heard that the 2012 platform of the Republican Party of Texas opposes the teaching of critical thinking skills. You can download it here: http://www.texasgop.org/about-the-party The specific section can be found on page 20: "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." I was alerted to this by a blog on the Washington Post site: Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html I put together a podcast episode on critical thinking, why it's important to the field of psychology and why it's so hard to teach. I drew heavily from Daniel Willingham's excellent article, Critical Thinking: Why is it so hard to Teach? which is available here: http://www.danielwillingham.com/articles.html I put my notes for the episode - which is likely to be a 2 or 3 parter - on a concept map here: http://go.comapping.com/comapping.html#mapid=123636&publishKey=1gD3WRHyfU The audio (and the above links) is available on my website here: http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2012/10/ep-183-critical-thinking-important-yes-but-can-we-teach-it-well/ Happy to hear your feedback, which I could include in part 2 of the episode. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=21349 or send a blank email to leave-21349-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
