591 W9 Critical Thinking Overview
Required Reading
Online Articles
• Kallet, Michael. Think Smarter : Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, Retrieved from: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/socal/detail.action?docID=1656382
• Sections 1 and 3. – see uploaded file (still trying to save section 3)
Week 09 Instructional Materials
Critical Thinking and Bloom’s Taxonomy
Pearson’s RED Model of Critical Thinking – see uploaded file
Bloom’s Taxonomy – see uploaded file
Week 09 Discussion 01: Critical Thinking
Instructions
You work at a college library that was recently donated $1.5 million. The college Dean and library Director have decided to remodel the entire first floor of the library into student study space only. All the books, newspapers, and journals (over 40 thousand volumes) will need to be either discarded or moved to the second floor of the library or elsewhere.
• Provide an analysis of the issues raised by this library remodel using Bloom’s Taxonomy, the RED Model, or the framework from Thinking Critically.
• What are the issues and possible options? Identify at least 2 issues.
• What information, knowledge, and evidence would you need to determine the best plan to facilitate this remodel?
• Be sure to identify which framework you chose in critically assessing this library remodel.
• Reply to at least two of your classmates’ posts (Writer, I will provide reply posts so you can write 2 responses to 2 classmates’ posts. About 4-5 response sentences for each reply post)
