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    Further personal competencies and skills

    Further personal competencies and skills

    Apart from subject domain knowledge, there are some personal competencies and skills that learner may want to develop in university. The personal competencies and skills include, critical thinking, evaluating definitions, evaluating arguments, evaluating news & media, evaluating scientific studies, evaluating disagreement, and evaluating statistics & graphs.

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    Critical thinking Media literacy Journalism -- Social aspects Information literacy Press criticism
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    How to spot a misleading graph - Lea Gaslowitz

    How to spot a misleading graph - Lea Gaslowitz

    When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it has also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way — and as it turns out, there are plenty of ways graphs can mislead and outright manipulate. Lea Gaslowitz shares some things to look out for.

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    Critical thinking Media literacy Information visualization Charts diagrams etc.
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    Arguing Using Critical Thinking

    Arguing Using Critical Thinking

    There is a quote that has been passed down many years and is most recently accounted to P.T. Barnum, “There is a sucker born every minute.” Are you that sucker? If you were, would you like to be “reborn?” The goal of this book is to help you through that “birthing” process. Critical thinking and standing up for your ideas and making decisions are important in both your personal and professional life. How good are we at making the decision to marry? According to the Centers for Disease Control, there is one divorce in America every 36 seconds. That is nearly 2,400 every day. And professionally, the Wall Street Journal predicts the average person will have 7 careers in their lifetime. Critical thinking skills are crucial. Critical thinking is a series learned skills. In each chapter of this book you will find a variety of skills that will help you improve your thinking and argumentative ability. As you improve, you will grow into a more confident person being more in charge of your world and the decisions you make.

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    Critical thinking Textbooks
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    ProCon.org

    ProCon.org

    The award-winning ProCon.org website serves more than 20 million people each year, including students and teachers in more than 11,000 schools in all 50 states and 90 countries. Additionally, 37 U.S. state governments, 17 U.S. state departments of education, 31 foreign governments, 25 U.S. federal agencies, and thousands of media articles have cited ProCon.org.

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    Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human

    Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human

    The learner will explore basic human limitations that create barriers to critical thinking including selective thinking, false memories, and perceptual limitations.

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    Critical thinking Critical thinking -- Study teaching
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    Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles

    Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles

    The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.

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    Critical thinking Critical thinking -- Study teaching
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    Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles

    Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles

    The learner will identify techniques to use to overcome people-related barriers to critical thinking.

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    Critical thinking Critical thinking -- Study teaching
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    Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human

    Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human

    The learner will identify ways to overcome barriers to critical thinking and problem-solving including false memories, personal biases and prejudices, and physical and emotional hindrances.

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    Critical thinking Critical thinking -- Study teaching
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    Thinking Outside the Box

    Thinking Outside the Box

    Learners examine strategies for evaluating new ideas and accepting change. They consider a list of various reactions to change and a list of actions that enhance teamwork, and check those statements that apply to themselves.

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    Creative thinking Problem solving Critical thinking
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    Critical Thinking: Applying Analysis Steps to a Situation (Screencast)

    Critical Thinking: Applying Analysis Steps to a Situation (Screencast)

    The learner reviews steps in analyzing a process and applies them to a situation in his/her own work or personal life.

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    Critical thinking Critical thinking -- Study teaching
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