Critical Thinking

Wisdom is knowing what's worth understanding, understanding the value of ideas, and always placing knowing in the context of not knowing

When researching online, what's easiest to find may not necessarily be accurate or represent a full understanding.

Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

Problem-solving and critical thinking are both skills and habits that allow students to apply and transfer academic knowledge into the real-world.

Each colored block has an example of a learning objective corresponding with each combination of the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions.

The 6 Facets of Understanding is a non-hierarchical framework for understanding useful for assessment and instructional design.

Practicing critical thinking in their 'native environments--at home, with family and friends--is a useful strategy to build their cognitive muscles.

8 Science-Based Strategies For Critical Thinking contributed by Lee Carroll, PhD and Terry Heick Scientific argumentation and critical thought are difficult to argue against. However, as qualities and mindsets, they...

Misleading information is often based on partial truths and then reframed to fit a particular purpose: cause an emotion such as fear or lead to a specific action.

This (simple) game helps students understand how fake news works, why it becomes popular, and its central mechanics and trends.

The Cognitive Bias Codex: A Visual Of 180+ Cognitive Biases by Terry Heick A cognitive bias is an inherent thinking 'blind spot' that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate--and often...

How To Build MECE Hypotheses Using A Decision Tree contributed by Ethan Andrews What is a MECE Hypothesis? This is quite the mouthful and unless you are a consultant, it...

Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick Imagine the dogged pursuit of a proper clock-maker, day after day bound up in design and measurement and function and...

As a culture, we have a thought crisis--namely, a harmful and enduring refusal and/or inability to think well and think critically.

How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different by Terry Heick This post was one of our earliest posts from Terry Heick in very early 2012. It has now been updated...

Want To Make A Difficult Conversation Productive? Use A Protocol contributed by Michele Mattoon, NSRF Director *Join Michele and Director of TeachThought PD, Drew Perkins, for this summer's Grow 19...

Sample prompt: Were the strategies, skills, and procedures I used effective for this assignment?

"Curriculum that questions the purpose of knowledge." by Terry Heick In our recent post, Education’s Curious Fascination With Uniformity, reader James Foss left a useful comment that had within it...