Six Thinking Hats

Barbara J. King introduces her argument with a very serious and riveting story about a mother dolphin in distress over the corpse of her baby and uses this anecdote to grab the audience’s attention, appeal to their pathos, and intrigue the audience to continue reading. Her argument is an ambiguous case because even though the two topics of animals and mourning over a loved one would each seem to be honorable, a large portion of the audience she is targeting either doesn’t know or have not…

While both require different levels of thinking and imagination, both actives provide a chance to see the world in a different way. Whether a person watches a movie or reads a book, the person 's imagination takes them to a new and exciting place in their mind. Interestingly, both outlets make…

One of the main criteria I would use to evaluate the suitability of a specific simulation is whether or not the simulation involves higher order thinking. One of the traits that “differentiates gifted students from their age peers is their exceptional capacity to perceive information and use it productively” (Parks, 2009, p. 261). As a teacher, we are “challenged to select or design instruction to teach reasoning processes that are abstract, sometimes requiring a technical understanding of…

I am very pleased to present this digital portfolio and essay that summarizes my course work and highlights the critical thinking, research and digital writing skills we have learned in the Capstone Seminar at Charter Oak State College. The enclosed selected assignments and cover essay comprise the building blocks of my studies over the past eight weeks. The portfolio collection consists of the Self-Reflection Profile Essay from the first week of class, the Critical Analysis Essay from week two,…

taking this course during a normal semester. The thing that I didn’t expect from taking this course was enjoying the readings and finding out that other people have the same thoughts as I do. The reason I didn’t think there would be other people thinking the same way I do is that I was never good at English. I always found a short cut in high school, which totally didn’t help me. I was also shy with saying my thoughts on something, being I knew there was someone else that had a better thought…

Little things which did not cause you stress before are now being magnified by the smallest actions of others may be an indicator to re-evaluate where you are and try to become centered once again. When your body, mind, and spirit are no longer in harmony your inner balance will be off as well. It will be difficult to recognize and take responsibility when acting against someone who may be in the line of your unhappiness. Bringing yourself back to basics and reflecting on why you have…

In the military, there are very few decisions that involve groupthink – which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you frame the answer and the overall impact of that decision. However, last summer our organization was presented with a unique situation. The Army built a new set of barracks next to the flight line, where my unit worked on a typical day. Currently, the Soldiers resided in older barracks closer to the headquarters but these barracks were quite a distance from the…

look at what we are reading on a deeper level. Being able to construct inquisitive and complex questions that lead to critical thinking. Usually, when students read they just read over the words and that’s it. They don’t stop and analyze the material they are reading. They don’t question why it happened, who did it and the motives they had. Critical reading and critical thinking go hand in hand. These two strategies are monumental to understand a material on a deeper level. Students need to get…

reasoning to guide their practice. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between clinical reasoning and clinical decision making, consider clinical reasoning in advance physical assessment and identify the nurses’ use of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. Clinical reasoning and Decision Making…

In The Presumption of Atheism , Michael Scriven argues that when arguments for the existence of God are unable to provide the evidence required to maintain this conclusion (and Scriven believes this to be the case for all such arguments) the only position that one can rationally maintain is atheism. I will first elaborate the salient points of Scriven’s reasoning in arriving at his conclusion and then attempt to challenge some of the assumptions that Scriven makes in the course of his argument,…