Never Stop Asking: Teaching Students to be Better Critical Thinkers 1st Edition Nathan D. Lang-Raad

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119887542
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119887546
• Author(s): Nathan D. Lang-Raad

Students and teachers alike face a dilemma: Why think deeply when we can just take a shortcut by googling something? Why read an article when we can learn from a social media headline? If, as educators, we want to encourage our students to value thoughtfulness and to embrace the effort it takes to reach deep understandings, we must model that behavior ourselves. In Never Stop Asking, author Dr. Nathan Lang-Raad shows K-12 teachers how human brains like to take mental shortcuts, known as heuristics, that allow the brain to save energy and perform more efficiently. These heuristics, however, can lead to illogical thinking, cognitive biases, and fallacies that can hinder critical thinking.

Never Stop Asking: Teaching Students to be Better Critical Thinkers is the armor we need to defend ourselves and our students against the all-too-tempting shortcuts that the digital age has to offer, employing strategies to consistently and explicitly support teaching critical thinking and weaving it into the everyday landscape of your classroom. Let’s ensure that the students of today will be the skilled thinkers of tomorrow.

Table contents:

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Critical Thinking Defined 7

Chapter 2 Why Is Critical Thinking So Hard? 19

Chapter 3 Cognitive Hierarchy 37

Chapter 4 Inquiries of a Higher Order 55

Chapter 5 The Answer Isn’t in the Back of the Book 79

Chapter 6 Collaborative Argumentation 105

Chapter 7 The Real World 117

Chapter 8 Creativity’s Connection with Critical Thinking 135

Chapter 9 The Learning Environment 153

Conclusion 181

References 191

Index 201

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