6th Annual International Conference on Thinking

MIT, Boston, MA

Monday, July 18

0830 - 0930 Opening Keynote

Teaching thinking shall consist of:

  1. determiningthe essential principles and concepts in the course of curriculum
  2. arranging a series of authentic subject-specific problems, cases, and issues that reflect those principles and concepts, and
  3. guiding students to conduct researchand applycreative and critical thinking to acquire factual knowledge and discover solutions/resolutions

Students' research, analysis of data and presentation of findings shall bedoen individually and collaboratively and in writing.

A fundamental principle of Critical Thinking

Ideas are sledom of equal equaltiy

Solutions to problems range from the practical to the impractical, beliefs from well-founded to ill-founded, opinions from informed to uninformed, arguments from logical to illogical.

Critical thinking serves o separate the more worthy from the less, and ultimately, to identify the best.

1600 - 1530 George Brett

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