By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
Rachel Aretakis of Louisville Business First reports about a speech given by Graham Baughman, the CEO and founder of WhiteBox Learning LLC, a STEM education company that produces software for students. This article is worth reading and is just another confirmation of the need for Critical Skills. You can access the article here. CCJett
Read More…The “Analysis Skill” is the skill one uses to process the information he/she has collected into something that he/she can actually use with confidence. The “Analysis Skill” may also be termed, “Critical Thinking,” and I use them interchangeably. The analysis process itself is rather simple in concept. After collecting and testing the information for validity […]
Read More…Think of it as a “balancing act.” Filling a student’s head with “content” without equipping the student with skills to actually DO something with that content is ridiculous. You may enable the student to score well on some standardized test, but you don’t prepare the student with the sorts of skills needed to function effectively […]
Read More…The traditional path for logical deduction is to progress from hypotheses (premises) to conclusions . . . or, as they say, “P” implies “Q.” It can work the other way, sometimes, but it’s risky business. The late great physicist, Richard Feynman, had the ability to think backwards and often did. When presented with a problem, […]
Read More…Two of the most important of the “Critical Skills” are the skill of acquiring information and then doing something with it to solve a problem or draw a conclusion. This is the essence of “Critical Thinking” . . . and noted Harvard professor, Howard Gardner, has been arguing for years about the importance of critical […]
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