Critical Thinking Workshop
January 18, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada
Getting Critical Thinking Curricula Into The
Classroom
with
Ray Hall,
Diane Swanson,
and
Bob Carroll
The critical thinking workshop will examine the challenges that face
teachers and curriculum developers from the elementary school to the
university level. We will suggest methods for meeting those challenges and
offer practical exercises for teachers to take back with them to the
classroom.
Diane Swanson’s science and nature books have been guiding teachers at
the grade 4 through 8 level for many years. But high school and college
instructors trying to bring critical thinking into their classrooms will
find the exercises she recommends can be applied almost without
modification to their classes.
Ray Hall brought a new course into the curriculum at California State
University Fresno called Science and Nonsense. He’s developed several
critical thinking exercises for the course, which he will share at the
workshop. Ray is also currently chairing a committee that is examining all
the critical thinking courses being taught at CSUF and will offer his
insights on ideas such as a mandatory core curricula for critical thinking
courses and ways of assessing outcomes of these courses.
Bob Carroll will describe his 30-year adventure of moving from teaching
formal logic to practical logic to informal logic to critical thinking.
He’ll discuss the critical thinking movement in California education,
which has been formally active since 1980. He’ll also share his
experiences in writing a critical thinking textbook and developing a
college course that applies critical thinking skills to scientific studies
on telepathy, psychokinesis, healing prayer, and spirits communicating
with mediums.
 
Follow-up links and references
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