Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

Build practical critical thinking skills to evaluate evidence, identify bias and logical fallacies, analyze information, construct sound arguments, assess sources, and communicate your reasoning clearly and confidently.

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Course curriculum

1. Lesson 00: Welcome to the Course Why Critical Thinking Matters Now
2. Lesson 01: Reading - How to Use This Course: Navigation, Pacing, and the Pathway Gate
3. Lesson 02: Meet Your Toolkit: A Visual Overview of the Course Framework
4. Lesson 03: Before You Begin: About The Self-Assessment
5. Lesson 04: Pre-Course Diagnostic: Reasoning Self-Assessment
6. Lesson 05: Recommended Learning Path
1. Lesson 06: Critical Thinking Definedv The Toolbox and the Three Types of Thinkers
2. Lesson 07: Fast Brain Slow Brain Dual-Process Thinking and Group Influence
3. Lesson 08: Reading - The Linda Problem: When Logic Loses to Intuition
4. Lesson 09: Practice Quiz - Three Types of Thinkers: Which One Are You?
1. Lesson 10: How Society Plants Ideas Advertising Propaganda_ and Emotional Persuasion
2. Lesson 11: Self-Assessment Analogies and Thought Experiments
3. Lesson 12: Reading - Propaganda and Indoctrination: Techniques That Bypass Reason
4. Lesson 13: Practice Quiz - Logical Fallacy Spotter: Slippery Slope to Ad Hominem
5. Lesson 14: Hands-On Learning: Your Thinking Audit: A Critical Thinking Self-Assessment
6. Lesson 15: Role Play - Spotting the Spin: Evaluating a Persuasive Message
7. Lesson 16: Quiz - Foundations of Critical Thinking
1. Lesson 17: Recursion Algorithms and Dialectical Reasoning
2. Lesson 18: Making Thinking Visible - Graphical Tools and the Knowledge Pyramid
3. Lesson 19: Reading - Bloom's Taxonomy: A Thinker's Ladder
4. Lesson 20: Practice Quiz - Dialectical Thinking: From Socrates to Hegel
1. Lesson 21: Reading Between the Lines: Credibility, Bias, and Hidden Assumptions
2. Lesson 22: Deconstructing the Question and Planning Your Argument
3. Lesson 23: Reading - Structuring Evidence and Presenting Multiple Perspectives
4. Lesson 24: Practice Quiz - Check Your Reading and Writing: Sources, Structure, and Evidence
5. Lesson 25: Hands-On Learning: Map It, Then Write It: From Sources to a Structured Argument
6. Lesson 26: Roleplay - The Research Briefing: Turning Raw Data into a Credible Recommendation
7. Lesson 27: Quiz - Thinking Tools in Action: Structuring, Visualizing, Reading, and Writing
1. Lesson 28: Critical Listening and How Real Arguments Work
2. Lesson 29: Aristotle-s Laws of Thought and Valid Argument Forms _v3
3. Lesson 30: Reading - Fallacies, Circular Reasoning, and Causal Traps
4. Lesson 31: Practice Quiz - Check Your Reasoning: Listening, Premises, and Logical Traps
1. Lesson 32: The Rhetorical Toolkit Structure Words and Devices
2. Lesson 33: Facts Opinions and Evidence
3. Lesson 34: Reading - Denotation, Connotation, and the Power of Word Choice
4. Lesson 35: Practice Quiz - Spot the Foul Play: Ethical Limits of Rhetoric
5. Lesson 36: Hands-On Learning: Rhetoric in Action: Build and Stress-Test a Persuasive Argument
6. Lesson 37: Roleplay - Making the Case: Presenting a Contested Position Under Scrutiny
7. Lesson 38: Quiz - Logic, Rhetoric, and Persuasion
1. Lesson 39: The Ten Logical Pitfalls Explained mp4
2. Lesson 40: Landmark Arguments Thought Experiments and Paradoxes
3. Lesson 41: Reading - Arguments That Moved the World: A Guided Reading
4. Lesson 42: Practice Quiz - Fallacy Identification Challenge
1. Lesson 43: How to Use an Index for Deep Learning
2. Lesson 44: From Course to Practice
3. Lesson 45: Reading - Who's Behind the Ideas? Author and Acknowledgments Overview
4. Lesson 46: Practice Quiz - End-of-Course Knowledge Check
5. Lesson 47: Hands-On Learning: Spot and Fix the Fallacy
6. Lesson 48: Roleplay - The Fallacy Tribunal: Defending a Position Against Flawed Attacks
7. Lesson 49: Quiz - Fallacies and Landmark Arguments
1. Lesson 50: Course Complete Key Takeaways and Your Next Steps _v7
2. Lesson 51: The Part of Tens
3. Lesson 52: Critical Thinking Cheat Sheet: The Whole Course on One Page
4. Lesson 53: Non-Graded Project - The Argument Audit: A Critical Thinking Mini-Challenge

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Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

Course curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Entire Course

Chapter 2: What Critical Thinking Is and How the Mind Actually Works

Chapter 3: Social Influence, Self-Assessment, and Reasoning by Analogy

Chapter 4: Structuring and Visualizing Thought: Recursion, Graphics, and Knowledge Hierarchies

Chapter 5: Critical Reading and Critical Writing

Chapter 6: Listening, Speaking, and the Logic of Real Arguments

Chapter 7: Rhetoric, Evidence, and Justifying Opinions

Chapter 8: Ten Logical Pitfalls and Ten Landmark Arguments

Chapter 9: Consolidating Your Practice: Navigation, Reflection, and Next Steps

Chapter 10: Course Wrap-Up and Next Steps

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