Explore the TED: Ideas Worth Spreading website Perhaps you have heard of TED Talks. In the Learn section, you were given the opportunity to explore the TED: Ideas Worth Spreading website and learn more about these events. Typically, TED Talks help spread different thoughts and ideas to impact our culture. While TED Talks are widely … Read more
A negative communication event For this final discussion, turn your powers of critical inquiry onto yourself, with the goal of understanding your role in contributing to a “negative communication event”. A “negative communication event” is nothing more than an interaction you have had – with another person or a group of people – that did … Read more
Critical inquiry and argumentation skills For the last 5 weeks, you have been learning about and practicing a variety of critical inquiry and argumentation skills and strategies, including an exploration of some of the many logical fallacies we often find lurking in what we read, see and hear. As you have discovered, those fallacies can … Read more
Lists of logical fallacies Have you ever experienced something at work or in a social situation that just didn’t make sense? Maybe a supervisor, friend, or family-member tried to persuade you or to justify an action with an argument or message that didn’t ‘add up’. Often, as we covered in this week’s module, these are … Read more
The art of analyzing and evaluating our thinking Critical thinking can be defined as “the art of analyzing and evaluating our thinking with a view to improving it, or a problem with a view to understanding or solving it.” Critical inquiry can be understood as the means by which we practice that art. Analysis and evaluation require a particular … Read more
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