Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Gaming and Critical Thought (Survey)

I’ve started writing a series of posts about gaming and critical thought in kids. When I think of gaming — as I’m sure do many others — I think of cracking open a cardboard box and extracting a board, dice, cards, tokens, bits, pieces, and often a crisp sheet of rules. But I don’t want to limit my definition to that. A handful of dice, a deck of cards, or a pencil and paper can be the basis for the simplest game. And it goes from there to anything increasingly more complex than that…

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Full text from January 24, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Skeptical Mindsets

Defining Critical Thought: Take One

I’ve been doing a little thinking about thinking. One of the great things about taking a few minutes each day to write out my thoughts on these topics — or any topics for that matter — is that such introspection opens up all kinds of new avenues for exploration. Sometimes this kind of meandering pontification threatens to take me off course. On other occasions it sends me down twisting paths of inquiry that ultimately validate those selfsame efforts. And as pointless as this little soliloquy might seem at the moment, it is in fact leading a singular point. That point is both a very good question to be asked in a blog such as this one and also a question offering no universally accepted definition; What exactly is critical thought?

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Full text from January 9, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Critical Thought Toolkit, Reasoned Education

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