Active Learning

Objectives of this unit

You will become an active learner by developing the skills of collaborating, participating, and critical thinking
1. First, from readings, you will learn some basic concepts in critical thinking.
2. You will learn that through collaboration with other students and participation in class you can become a better learner.
3. Do exercises that get you using a variety of critical thinking skills.

Readings

Thinking about thinking http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/thinking/index.html
Reading and critical thinking http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/2411.html
Bloom's taxonomy http://www.quia.com/jg/90134list.html
Critical thinking links http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical/
Collaborative learning and critical thinking
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html

Other resources:
Developing critical thinking http://educ.queensu.ca/~russellt/howteach/jay-soni.htm
Critical thinking http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/critthnk.html

Assignment

Select from the following worksheets three exercises related to critical thinking. Email your responses to the instructor.
http://worksheets.teach-nology.com/critical_thinking/

Resources developed by John Fisher <fisher@fisherhouse.com> for Yellowhead Tribal College