Complimentary Academic Webcast

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Join us for a complimentary webcast…

 

With Dr. Linda Elder, Educational Psychologist, Senior Fellow

May 13^th, 2015

1:00-2:00pm Pacific Daylight Time

*48 Hours prior to session start time you will receive an email with instructions on how to join the webcasts.

 

Using the Tools of Critical Thinking to Teach Students How to Study and Learn … Dr. Linda Elder

To study well and learn any subject is to learn how to think with discipline in that subject. It is to learn to think within its logic, to:

• Raise vital questions and problems within it, formulating them clearly and precisely.
• Gather and assess information, using ideas to interpret that information insightfully.
• Come to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards.
• Adopt the point of view of the discipline, recognizing and assessing - as need be - its assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.
• Communicate effectively with others using the language of the discipline and that of educated public discourse.
• Relate what one is learning in the subject to other subjects, and to what is significant to human life.

To become a skilled learner is to become a self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinker who has given assent to rigorous standards of thought and to mindful command of their use. This session will introduce you to a few strategies for helping students begin to take learning seriously, using these and related critical thinking understandings.   These strategies are based on the assumption that substantive teaching and learning occurs only when students take ownership of the most basic principles and concepts of a subject.