Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Week 9 - 2 of 3
The Mission Critical Website is a great tool for students who are taking Critical Thinking courses. That's because this website was specifically designed to help students and teachers with Critical Thinking. It has an index of everything you need to learn about arguments, claims, premises, etc. Each category has subcategories that have definitions, examples and exercises to help further your knowledge and better understand critical thinking. When looking over the website and its different pages, I see a lot of things that we learned over this semester. I think to myself, "Hey I learned about that, or I know what that is, and even I think I should take a look at this to see if this website can help me understand this concept in more detail." I also like that the website shows that there are new parts they are working on. Though you cannot see many of them, a few or on display. The one that I really like is the "Visual Models" one. On this page, there are diagrams drawn to help students see the examples visually. I think this is a great idea because not only can students imagine it they can actually see it. Not all of us learn the same. So incorporating visual aids is a great way to help enhance the learning process for all of us.
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I also liked that the Mission Critical website had topics that we have already had learned in the Epstein book. Sometimes reading about a certain topic from another source can be helpful to learn about the topic more in detail. I agree with that this is a helpful tool for students taking a course in Critical Thinking. It was also beneficial because it helped me review of these topics right before our final. The visual models that your discussed are helpful because sometimes I do need to see it presented that way to help me understand the subject even more.
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