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Chapter 11, Thinking Critically and Creatively
Visit the Fallacy Files for a definition,
history, examples, resources and quotes. There is even a Fallacy Watch
where people can submit examples of fallacies in reasoning.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/quounquo.html
The Virtual Salt website
provides an introduction to critical and creative thinking. It has information on negative attitudes
that block creativity, mental blocks to creativity and positive attitudes
for creative thinking:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm
The Virtual Salt website also has creative
thinking techniques including brainstorming, idea generating questions and block
busting.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook2.htm
Visit the Creativity Web for resources on creativity and innovation:
Creativity
Web
A Web site called Mission Critical was
developed to assist college teachers and students understand and apply concepts of
critical thinking required in all college-level courses in California. It contains an
interactive tutorial on the principles of critical thinking and has exercises to practice
these concepts. You can even earn college credit in critical thinking through San Jose
State University:
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/index.html
Visit Mind Tools for additional problem solving and
analytical techniques including brainstorming, critical path analysis, decision trees,
force field analysis and other critical thinking techniques:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm
Visit the Creative Thinking Skills for
Life and Education site for tools for teaching creativity.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/creative.htm
Quotations for creative thinking:
http://creativequotations.com/