Blended Learning - a disruptive innovation
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Critical & Creative Thinking
You are what you think. That's right.
Whatever you are doing right now, whatever you feel, whatever you want - all are
determined by the quality of your thinking. If your thinking is unrealistic,
your thinking will lead to many disappointments. If your thinking is overly
pessimistic, it will deny you due recognition of the many things in which you
should properly rejoice. For most people, most of their thinking is
subconscious, that is, never explicitly put into words. The problem is that
when you are not aware of your thinking you have no chance of “correcting” it.
When thinking is subconscious, you are in no position to see any problems in
it. And, if you don't see any problems in it, you won't be motivated to change
it. When we are thinking of a classroom context, critical thinking is thinking that assesses itself. To the extent that our students need us to tell
them how well they are doing, they are not thinking critically. Didactic
instruction makes students overly dep…
