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Welcome to the last unit of Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 11 Tolerate Uncertainty We don’t know the most important reason why we have fingernails. Maybe there are a number of different reasons. We may never know. Be very careful about people who have all the answers. Also, critical thinking isn’t eternal. A claim that we think […]

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 10 Consider Other Interpretations In critical thinking, you need to examine your own claims and beliefs carefully. In particular, you need to consider other interpretations. We can’t just answer a question with the first good idea we can think of. We need to think of as many reasons as

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 9 Don’t Oversimplify Life is complex. We can’t always find easy solutions to our problems. We need to be careful not to just look for easy answers to our questions.  We can find interesting examples from medicine. Humans have observed illness and recognized the dangers of disease for thousands

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 8 Avoid Emotional Reasoning Emotion can be an important motivator for critical thinking. People who experience war, for instance, often make claims such as war destroys society. They can support their claim with evidence from their own observations: in wartime, people don’t get enough food. Children can’t learn well.

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 7 Analyze Assumptions and Biases An assumption is a belief that we think is true. We take for granted that it is true. An assumption may, in fact, be true; however, it may be false. Here are some examples: The sun rises every day.  Women are more emotional than

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 6 Opinions vs. Facts To assess claims and make good judgements, we need to know the difference between opinion and fact.  Opinion vs. FactA fact is something true or real. It is supported by reasons and evidence. We can assess facts because we can observe and prove (or disprove)

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 5 Examine the Evidence We hear many claims in our everyday life. You can lose weight on a banana diet!   You don’t have to study English. You can learn it by playing English stories when you sleep! Eat less and you’ll live longer!   When I was a child, an adult told

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 4 Assessing Claims We face all kinds of claims in our everyday lives. We hear them on TV, from our friends, and from authorities.  Tobacco is bad for your health. Mr. A. is a good teacher. Speaking more than one language slows down dementia.    A claim is a hypothesis. It is

Welcome to Critical Thinking! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 3 Define Your Terms Our goal in critical thinking is to assess a claim and make a judgement about it. To make our own claim in critical thinking, we start with observations and questions.  In the last unit, we made an observation: We have fingernails. When critical thinkers find an

Welcome to Unit-2! 日本語でのビデオレクチャーと、英語での教材を組み合わせ、日本のみなさんに取組みやすい内容です。Unit学習終了後にはクイズでクリティカルシンキング度を試して下さい。 Unit 2 Be Willing to Wonder To start thinking critically, think of yourself as a newborn baby. You wake up, open your eyes, and see a new world. What do you see? You will likely have lots of why questions about your new world. Why am I in a cage? Why