Andrew Allen

There is a need for us as instructors to slowly build the concepts of discipline, questioning, reasoning and judgement as well as introspection in our students..... especially if we take into consideration what the students of today have as expectations for college level course work. If we push to hard these lazy, entitled students we see today will shut down because the demands of critical thinking are novel, intense and frankly, scary when we look at their current skill set. Educating them on the benefits of these factors in critical thinking and then demanding that they apply these skills in… >>>

Critical thinking is a process that takes effort on the part of the individual making the decision at hand. This section has been very interesting in identifying those factors necessary to become a good critical thinker in a technological world full of misinformation. It is also clear that we as instructors, must also continue to hone our skills and be wary of our intrinsic laziness, in order that we may convey to our students, through demonstration, the methodology for effective critical thinking out in the real world.