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Critical Thinking


Critical Thinking



CRITICAL THINKING AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

Carol Tavris and Richard Paul discuss some of the common myths about the relationship between thinking and emotions. Topics include: how thinking affects emotions and how emotions affect thinking, the stereotype of the "rational person," how poor thinking can cause negative emotions, distinguishing between justified and unjustified anger, and the communicative function of emotions.

DVD / 59 minutes

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CRITICAL THINKING AND INTUITION IN NURSING PRACTICE

Penny Heaslip and Richard Paul discuss the role of intuition in nursing practice. Topics include: a definition of critical thinking,"Why is critical thinking important to nursing?," "What is intuition?," the confusion between intuition and prejudice, and how intuitions are fostered.

DVD / 80 minutes

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CRITICAL THINKING AND MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING

With Alan Schoenfeld and Richard Paul. Good for all levels of math and science instruction. Topics include: student attitudes toward mathematics, the importance of real-world math problems, the difference between "reasoning mathematically" and performing calculations, and teaching for discovery vs. lecturing.

DVD / 59 minutes

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CRITICAL THINKING AND THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT

In this program Yehudi Webster argues that the traditional model of education, which assumes its purpose is to prepare students for jobs, should be replaced by a model which emphasizes the role education can play in producing happy, well adjusted people. Webster sees the elements of thought as effective tools for achieving this new purpose. Topics include: student attitudes toward education, how social problems affect classroom dynamics, the historical approach to education, the relationship between reasoning and writing, and student and teacher evaluations.

DVD / 56 minutes

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CRITICAL THINKING TESTS & THE IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION

By Richard W. Paul

In this video, Dr. Paul explains and illustrates how to teach students to assess each other's work. Questions are addressed in all three videos. Ample theory and application are provided throughout.


DVD / 60 minutes

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MOTIVATING STUDENTS TO THINK CRITICALLY BY TEACHING FOR DISCOVERY

With Gerald Nosich. Strategies for encouraging students to think critically by designing assignments that require them to discover. Good for all levels. Topics include: Why discovery motivates students, why students remember what they discover, recreating historical discoveries, and discovering naive misconceptions.

DVD / 59 minutes

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CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

By defining critical thinking and examining how it's applied to the process of problem -solving, this two -section program will show viewers how to handle whatever challenges come their way. An in -class discussion segment on critical thinking explains how to rationally assess a statement and express disagreement, while a similar segment on problem -solving considers what to do when preparing for what appears to be an overwhelmingly tough exam.

DVD / 2009 / 10 minutes

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ART OF CRITICAL DECISION MAKING

By Michael A. Roberto

The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life.

  • When is the right time for your company to change its business model?
  • Is moving across the country for a new job the best option for you and your family?
  • At what point do you roll out a new product or service currently being tested?
  • Should you sell your house now, or wait until the housing market improves?

    Whether simple or complex, private or public, decisions are an essential part of your life. Not only do decisions affect your own life for good or ill, they can also affect the lives of your friends, your family, and your community.

    But making a good decision and avoiding a horrible one is not a chance act. It's a skill-one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. Mastering the art of critical decision making is the key to improving your life at home, at work, or in your community. When you understand the necessary components of a smart decision, you can examine mistakes you might have made in the past and sidestep potential mistakes in the future. And when you know the underlying psychological, social, and emotional components that influence decision making-whether they are your own decisions or the decisions of others-you can make sounder choices that produce better results.


    4 DVDs / 2009 / 720 minutes

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    CRITICAL THINKING: ASSUMPTIONS

    This programme starts with a number of accessible examples to illustrate what we mean by assumptions, how we find them and use the negative test, and how finding them can help to illuminate arguments. Students are then asked to test their critical thinking skills by looking for the assumptions in a location based film and studio discussion on the rise in binge drinking amongst girls. Finally, Dr. Roy van den Brink Budgen gives his analysis of the case study and provides follow up support material.

    DVD / 2009 / 20 minutes

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    CRITICAL THINKING: CREDIBILITY

    This programmes begins with an exploration of the concept of credibility and illustrates the key criteria of motive, bias, vested interest, neutrality, ability to perceive and expertise. A reconstruction of a famous murder case from the 1920s is then used to provide the material for students to evaluate the credibility of the evidence that was used. Finally, critical thinking author and former chief examiner Dr. Roy van den Brink Budgen provides his analysis of the case study and follow up support material.

    DVD / 2009 / 20 minutes

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    CRITICAL THINKING: EVIDENCE IN ARGUMENT

    This programme begins by illustrating the meaning and significance of evidence and the presentation of evidence in numbers, percentages, rates and over time. The case against zoos is used to give students the opportunity to evaluate and question how evidence is being used to support the arguments being made. Dr. Roy van den Brink Budgen then provides his analysis of the case study

    DVD / 2009 / 20 minutes

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    WHY DON'T WE NATURALLY MAKE GOOD DECISIONS?

    By Ron Howard

    Program Highlights
  • The endowment effect, the conjunction fallacy, and anchoring-natural human tendencies that lead to bad decisions, every time.
  • Why we tend to disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.
  • How impatience, stress, willpower and empathy influence action.

    Decision making cuts across all human activities. Yet we rarely study-much less apply-the fundamental thinking processes that should be undertaken before we make important decisions. Most of us can't stop our emotions from ultimately having more sway than our rational deliberation. Dr. Howard has spent much of his career studying this struggle between instinct and logic, and provides insights as well as practical suggestions for improving the quality of our decision making.

    Dr. Howard describes the elements of high-quality decisions: proper framing, clear alternatives, appropriate information, considered preferences, and the logic necessary for an uncertain world. By understanding the critical distinction between decisions and outcomes, and using effective decision analysis tools, we can increase our clarity of action in the personal and professional decisions that shape our lives and organizations.

    Dr. Ron Howard is a professor of management science and engineering and is also a professor by courtesy in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he was one of the founders of decision analysis as an academic discipline.


    DVD / 2007 / 49 minutes

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    PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN: THINKING TOGETHER

    In a philosophy-for-children session, a teacher uses a story, picture, news item, or piece of music to stimulate critical thinking and imagination. Children are encouraged to express themselves, to challenge what is being said, and to ask questions that intrigue them. This program explores the concept and supporting methodology of P4C at Gallions Primary School in East London, where such sessions have had a strikingly positive impact on children's intellectual, emotional, and social development. "It's changed the way I teach, it's changed the way the children are, it's changed the way the school is run. I think we owe it to the children to run philosophical enquiry," says Lisa Naylor, an advanced skills teacher at Gallions.

    Note: Only available in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan.


    DVD / 2004 / 23 minutes

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    POSITIVE CRITICAL THINKING

    Students are introduced to a step-by-step program that will make them more astute when confronting the choices in their lives. They will see the process in action so that they can use it themselves.

    Learning Objectives:
    1) An overview of an eight-step process that leads to positive critical thinking will be presented.
    2) How the process applies to various situations will be shown.
    3) Students will sharpen their thinking skills.


    DVD / 2004 / (Grades 6-12) / 14 minutes

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    QUESTIONING TO STIMULATE LEARNING AND THINKING (ELEMENTARY)

    With Beth Sattes & Jackie Walsh

    Questioning is the foundation of teaching and learning. This program features the QUILT model: Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking. Through effective questioning, student learning and achievement increases if teachers will
  • Explore techniques for questioning to promote learning and thinking.
  • Help students develop skills of inquiry and the ability to ask more questions.
  • Consider how to write questions that are purposeful and clearly focused.
  • Present questions effectively and prompt responses to enhance learning.
  • Understand the need for 'wait times.'
  • Explore ways to prompt and process student responses.
  • Observe skilled teachers in numerous classrooms successfully involve all students in the learning.

    2 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, 2 Audio CDs) / 1999 / 106 minutes

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    QUESTIONING TO STIMULATE LEARNING AND THINKING (SECONDARY)

    With Beth Sattes & Jackie Walsh

    Questioning is the foundation of teaching and learning. This program features the QUILT model: Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking. Through effective questioning, student learning and achievement increases if teachers will
  • Explore techniques for questioning to promote learning and thinking.
  • Help students develop skills of inquiry and the ability to ask more questions.
  • Consider how to write questions that are purposeful and clearly focused.
  • Present questions effectively and prompt responses to enhance learning.
  • Understand the need for 'wait times.'
  • Explore ways to prompt and process student responses.
  • Observe skilled teachers in numerous classrooms successfully involve all students in the learning.

    3 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, 2 Audio CDs) / 1999 / 117 minutes

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    UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES OF CRITICAL THINKING

    Is the message of critical thinking hard to get across to your students? This Australian-made program, produced by the team at the University of Western Sydney, clearly and comprehensively explains the processes involved in critical thinking and writing at senior high school and tertiary level, and is helpful as a trigger for teachers and lecturers to further clarify their expectations of student assignments. The program offers: an entertaining and relevant story which illustrates what is meant by 'critical thinking' and how this relates to successful essay writing, and a comprehensive support manual containing examples of learning activities and suggestions for students. This program has cross-curricula relevance, and will be an essential learning tool for all teachers - and their students.

    Please contact us for primary and secondary schools pricing.

    Note : The above titles may have some territorial restrictions. Please feel free to send us an enquiry.


    DVD / 1999 / 32 minutes

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    CRITICAL THINKING

    This lesson reviews the five principles of critical thinking and discusses the appeals of emotional, personal and logical proofs. The hosts also address and demonstrate the distinctions between observations and inferences and between inductive and deductive reasoning.

    Students are encouraged to seek their own truths instead of blindly adopting opinions and behaviors advocated by friends, family and the media.


    DVD (Closed Captioned) / 1998 / (Secondary / College) / 30 minutes

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    SPEAKING WITH CONFIDENCE: CRITICAL THINKING

    Probably the most important skill students can develop---critical thinking---affects their ability to make choices about their beliefs and actions. This lesson provides an overview of many aspects of critical thinking.

    Students learn:
  • The five principle of critical thinking.
  • To distinquish between inferences and observtions.
  • To list and explain three types of proof with which speakers support their claim.
  • To distinquish between inductive and deductive reasoning.
  • To describe at least four common types of fallacies.

    DVD (Closed Captioned) / 1996 / (Grades 12, Community collge/College) / 30 minutes

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    WORKOUT FOR THE MIND, A

    With Jennifer James

    Training programs from Dr. James will help your managers and employees better understand and manage change at work and in their personal lives.

    Technological, organizational and cultural change can be frightening, as well as tremendously personal. In her latest lecture, Dr. Jennifer James provides you with a framework for incorporating these changes into your life.

    As you watch this program, you will learn how to use perspective and history as a way of helping you understand where you are and where you're going.

    Drawing from the work in her top-selling book, Thinking in the Future Tense, Jennifer James will give you five skills for managing in today's rapidly changing world.

    THE 5 SKILLS:
    Skill 1: Seeing with New Eyes
    Skill 2: Recognizing the Future
    Skill 3: Harnessing the Power of Myths and Symbols
    Skill 4: Mastering New Forms of Intelligence
    Skill 5: Doing More with Less-Harnessing Energy


    Using "workouts" relating to each skill, Jennifer James will help you develop specific tools for managing the rapid pace of change and for developing the skills that you'll need to thrive in the 21st century.

    KEY LEARNING POINTS:
  • Enhance your understanding of the today's change
  • Present skills for effectively dealing with these changes
  • Develop methods for coping with the new economy

    DVD (Closed Captioned, With Leader's Guide) / 1996 / 97 minutes

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    CRITICAL THINKING: HOW TO EVALUATE INFO & DRAW CONCLUSIONS

    Help students learn to think for themselves-a key to success in every endeavor. They'll learn to assimilate information, dig beneath the surface, and draw their own conclusions. The program covers interpretive skills such as finding the main idea, determining the relationship between cause and effect, and sorting out fact from fiction. It illustrates basic reasoning powers such as the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning and irrelevant arguments.

    DVD / 1987 / 47 minutes

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    EMOTION VS. ANALYTICS: DECISION MAKING AND THE BIASED BRAIN

    With Baba Shiv

  • How to be decisive and confident in decision making.
  • Why starting with price can lead to bad decisions.
  • How loss aversion trumps opportunity-and how to counter negative emotions.

    Is it best to be emotionless and analytical in decision making? When our goal is to be decisive, the answer is a resounding No. Instead, harnessing the power of emotions is critical. Studies of the neural underpinnings of decision making show that our brains start by evaluating options analytically. But very soon-usually based on first impressions-we create an emotional front-runner. We then continue down a path of predecisional distortion, which biases further evaluation. Rather than creating bad decisions, however, this distortion leads to more confident, committed decision making.

    This natural process works best for tradeoff conflicts: deciding between current options. It also works well for decisions involving innovation, growth and expansion. But in cases of sequential conflicts-or when the risk of danger or a bad outcome is greater-taking a more analytical approach is the better choice. Dr. Shiv describes specific techniques for gathering data, group decision making, accessing your gut feelings, and knowing when to allow the contrarians to dominate the discussion.


    DVD / 61 minutes

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    HOW TO PROBLEM SOLVE: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

    What is intelligence? This DVD explores the meaning of intelligence and presents easy-to-understand tips to successful problem solving that include maintaining a positive attitude, being able to evaluate yourself and breaking problems into bite-size pieces

    DVD / Approx. 15 minutes

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    INFUSING THE PSYCHOLOGY CURRICULUM WITH ETHNOCULTURAL CONTENT: TRUTHS, HALF-TRUTHS, ANECDOTES, AND THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THINKING

    By Joseph Trimble Ph.D.

    Joe Trimble is recognized as one of the key founders of multiculturalism. In his keynote address, he argues that incorporating culture and ethnicity into psychology courses is a matter of scientific and professional responsibility. We need to provide accurate and useful information about culture and ethnicity to avoid perpetuating harmful myths and stereotypes. Students will learn about several popular cultural examples that have been passed along as "truths" when in fact their validity is questionable. This DVD is excellent for all introductory psychology and counseling courses and any multicultural course.


    DVD / Approx. 50 minutes

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    STRATEGIC THINKING SKILLS

    By Stanley K. Ridgley

    Strategic thinking is a powerful and invaluable skill, one that leads to greater chances of success in whatever professional and personal projects you're involved in. It involves setting goals, developing long-range plans, anticipating the unexpected, analyzing your environment, and even ...


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    TEACHING CRITICAL THINKING IN SCIENCE

    Using practical examples, this video shows teachers how to use practical science problems to develop critical thinking and analytical skills.

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