Types of Thinking For the TECH 4310 Course Adjunct Professor - Jim Breaux, MSF Fall 2014
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1. Types of Thinking For the TECH 4310 Course Adjunct Professor
- Jim Breaux, MSF Fall 2014
2. Types of Thinking Encountered in this Course Futures
Thinking Critical Thinking Systems Thinking Cathedral Thinking
3. Cathedral Thinking Long term thinking accomplishing a vision
over several generations.
4. FuturesThinking 1. Foresight: anticipating the future state
of events 2. Foresight is a human ability
5. Critical Thinking Edward Glaser says, The ability to think
critically involves three things: 1. An attitude of being disposed
to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come
within the range of one's experiences 2. Knowledge of the methods
of logical inquiry and reasoning, and 3. Some skill in applying
those methods. You need to be prepared to question the information
you are given. More important conclusions merit more intense
questioning.
6. Systems Thinking The process of understanding how things
that are related influence one another within a whole. everything
is connected to everything else
7. References and Further Reading www.criticalthinking.org
website resource Edward M. Glaser, An Experiment in the Development
of Critical Thinking, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09krCGboqzw quick video on critical
thinking Five part series on critical thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP29vOogWvw Systems thinking quotes
http://www.futurist.com/articles-archive/10-useful-
ideas-on-systems-thinking/