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In today’s fast-paced workplace, decisions often have to be made quickly, effectively and without doubt. It is increasingly important for employees to be able to think critically on their own. When employees excel at critical thinking, they can assess all possible approaches to a problem and choose the best solution confidently and calmly. Critical thinking skills webinars will help participants think more creatively and independently, make better decisions by problem solving systematically, and better identify the value of ideas and reach well-reasoned conclusions.

What is Critical Thinking?

Critical thinking is a skill that most would agree is important in the workplace. But what is it, exactly ?

Critical thinking is reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe and what to do. It requires collecting information and then thoughtfully evaluating it in order to guide decision making (we recommend decision making training ). Critical thinking helps you to make better decisions by engaging in logical reasoning, avoiding mistakes due to bias or inaccurate assumptions, and systematically working through options to identify the most relevant and reasonable solution.

Why is Critical Thinking important?

Executives repeatedly highlight critical thinking skills as a sought-after trait in new hires and current employees. The AMA Critical Skills Survey asked thousands of managers and executives to assess the importance of critical thinking skills. Seventy-two percent agreed that current employees’ success is measured by their critical thinking skills. When asked if their organizations make an effort to assess critical thinking when hiring new employees, seventy-six percent said yes.

Improving Critical Thinking Skills

Critical thinking might be described as the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Some people may be naturally skilled at critical thinking, but everyone can improve. Critical thinkers rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value. They will always seek to determine whether the ideas, arguments and findings represent the entire picture and are open to finding that they do not.

Our free Critical Thinking Webinars help strengthen your ability to reason by enforcing the principles of active learning rather than be a passive recipient of information.

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Webinar: Building Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

In this free one-hour webinar, Jeremy Szteiter explores practices for library instructors to teach critical thinking.

Originally presented February 28, 2024

In this webinar, Jeremy Szteiter explores practices for library instructors and others in teaching for, and with, critical thinking. He focuses on tools of critical thinking that are relevant across disciplinary areas and support learners to make sense of information in the context of scholarly research and analysis of complex media and online content. 

The session includes a brief overview of some perspectives on critical thinking, followed by descriptions of specific tools and examples of use. Participants will leave with a sense of how to integrate these tools into instructional materials along with a list of additional resources.

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Have you ever examined another person's solution to a problem and found yourself frustrated and asking yourself "What were they thinking?" when you realize that the person's actions actually compounded the problem rather than solving it. Most have, and often it is due to a lack of critical thinking.

In this webinar, the presenters first define the problem and then discuss why critical thinking skills are so important in the workforce. Then they describe the characteristics of critical and non-critical thinkers and what this means to employers who depend on others to make the business successful. The remainder and the bulk of the presentation focuses on how attendees can improve these skills as well as how they can help others do the same. Leaders and individual contributors in technical fields who rely on others to solve problems and make sound decisions will find this presentation useful in their day-to-day dealings with co-workers.

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OVERVIEW Critical thinking often features in higher level language teaching materials but what is its place in lessons for beginner, elementary and pre-intermediate students? In this webinar, we’ll explore the role of higher level thinking in lower level classes and find out how – even with basic language aims – critical thinking can add motivation, develop student-independence, and improve learning outcomes.

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John Hughes is a teacher, teacher trainer and course book author. He has worked in ELT since 1992 and managed departments of Business English and Teacher Training. He currently combines a variety of roles including part-time teaching, running online training courses, and lecturing on ELT methodology at Oxford University in the summer. He has written many books with National Geographic Learning including the six-level general English course series called  Life and World English  Third Edition. He lives near Oxford and is a contributor to the National Geographic Learning In Focus Blog . His website is  www.johnhugheselt.com .

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Free Webinar Series – Success Skills: Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is one of the most important skills in your audit toolkit, description:.

Everyone took a critical thinking class in college, but do you really practice critical thinking and work to improve it on a regular basis?  Critical Thinking is a skill that can, and should, be continually improved upon throughout life.  There is no finish line, just the potential for ongoing improvement.  This session will break down the fundamentals of critical thinking, what gets in the way of critical thinking and steps to improve critical thinking.

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• Understanding what critical thinking really is
• Learn to identify what can get in the way of critical thinking
• Learn ways to improve critical thinking

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Strategic assistants must think differently. How can we develop a curious and insatiable approach to our work and a quest for continuous learning using creative strategic thinking? Strategic assistants look for connections and patterns and don’t settle for the way it’s always been done. They are empowered to take initiative that sparks growth and better job performance. This session will focus on ways to level-up strategic thinking skills in any situation or when dealing with difficult managers.

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She has her Master's in Organizational Leadership with five years of experience teaching at the junior college level. Her presentations focus on relevant and timely topics for assistants of all levels. Lisa's goal is get the attendees thinking about their roles in new and different ways without falling into complacency.

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This course  introduces a substantive conception of critical thinking and how to infuse this concept throughout your instruction. It fosters understanding of how to teach critical thinking skills to students through any subject or discipline, and at any level of instruction. In this course, you will be introduced to the elements of reasoning, universal intellectual standards, and intellectual traits through readings, discussions, and practical application activities. You will redesign lessons and strategies using the concepts and principles of critical thinking. You will practice strategies for Socratic discussions. You will help students learn to consciously use critical thinking concepts and strategies in learning, and in their lives. You will redesign and teach lessons you develop for your own classes - and receive course credit for doing so! 

As you apply your mind in this course, you can expect to:

• deepen your understanding of the foundations of critical thinking;

• develop skills and abilities in placing fairminded critical thinking at the heart of teaching and learning, including explicitly emphasizing the development of Intellectual Virtues among your students;
• design instruction that fosters explicit critical thinking throughout your course(s);
• help your students learn the tools they need for developing as ethical critical thinkers;
• come to understand the role that native pathologies of human thought play in impeding intellectual development;
• explicitly use the Elements of Reasoning and Intellectual Standards to create critical thinking lessons in your subject area(s);
• help students cultivate their ability to think within key concepts in your subject(s) and discipline(s); and
• create lessons and assessment processes that dovetail with fostering critical thinking at every moment of teaching and learning.

CT800 - Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life

Since few people realize the powerful role that thinking plays in their lives, few gain significant command of it. Most people are frequently victims of their thinking; that is, they are hurt  rather than helped   by it. Most people are their own worst enemies. Their thinking is a continual source of problems, preventing them from recognizing opportunities, keeping them from exerting energy where it will do the most good, poisoning relationships, and leading them down blind alleys.

This course will introduce you to the tools the best thinkers use and will exemplify the activities and practices you can use to begin emulating them. Here are some of the qualities of the best thinkers:

• The best thinkers think about their thinking.    They do not take thinking for granted. They do not trust to fate to make them good in thinking. They notice  their thinking. They reflect   on their thinking. They   act  upon their thinking. 
• The best thinkers are highly purposeful.    They do not simply act. They know why they act. They know what they are about. They have clear goals and clear priorities. They continually check their activities for alignment with their goals. 

• The best thinkers distinguish their thoughts from their feelings and desires.    They know that wanting something to be so does not make it so. They know that one can be unjustifiably angry, afraid, or insecure. They do not let unexamined emotions determine their decisions. They have “discovered” their minds, and they examine the way their minds operate as a result. They take deliberate charge of those operations.
• The best thinkers routinely take thinking apart.    They “analyze” thinking. They do not trust the mind to analyze itself automatically. They realize that analyzing thinking is an art one must consciously learn. They realize that it takes knowledge of the parts of thinking, and practice in exercising control over them.
• The best thinkers routinely evaluate thinking, determining its strengths and weaknesses.    They do not trust the mind to evaluate itself automatically. They realize that the automatic ways in which the mind evaluates itself are inherently flawed. They realize that evaluating thinking is an art one must consciously learn. They realize that it takes knowledge of the universal standards for thinking, and practice in exercising control over them. 

This course, as a whole, will introduce you to the tools of mind that will help you reason well through the problems and issues you face - whether in the classroom, in your personal life, or in your professional life. If you take these ideas seriously, and practice using them, you can take command of the thinking that ultimately will command the quality of your life. 

• understand what critical thinking is, how it differs from other forms of human thought, and its foundational principles and concepts;
• become explicitly aware of the barriers to critical thinking development (egocentricity and sociocentricity), as well as how to recognize and overcome their many manifestations in daily life;
• analyze thinking by breaking it down into its fundamental components (the Elements of Thought), and learn how those components work together in reasoning;

• develop Intellectual Virtues, or desirable traits of mind, through practice over time;
• formulate clear, important, relevant questions;
• differentiate between questions of fact, of preference, and of reasoned judgment, and understand the best approaches to take for each of those categories;
• read critically and writing substantively;
• recognize the problem of media bias and propaganda as barriers to critical thought in individuals and human societies;
• develop a clear framework for ethical reasoning and understand how it differs from other modes of thought, such as religious, ideological, political, and legal thinking;
• learn the importance of fairminded critical thinking in self-actualization and the cultivation of fairminded critical homes, workplaces, classrooms, and societies; and
• understand the stages of critical thinking development, as well as determine your current such stage and what is required to ascend to higher stages.

CT701 - How to Infuse Critical Thinking Into Instruction, Part II: Advanced Course

• Developing effective strategies for fostering fairminded critical thinking in instruction.
• Leading more advanced Socratic dialog.
• Deepening your understanding of the foundations of critical thinking. 

• Beginning to outline a Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking within your field of study (showing proficiency in understanding the relationship between critical thinking and your field of study).
• Understanding more deeply the concepts of close reading and substantive writing, in order to better foster these understandings in student thought. 
• Placing the concept of fairminded critical thinking at the heart of teaching and learning, including an explicit emphasis on the development of Intellectual Virtues. 
• Understanding the roles played by native human pathologies of thought in impeding intellectual development. 
• Redesigning lessons with critical thinking at the heart of teaching and learning processes.
• Designing instructional assessment processes that dovetail with fostering critical thinking at every moment in teaching and learning. 

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Assignments are submitted through the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online , either through the activities' 'Share' function or by posting to a private course forum.

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Weekly workload.

The assignments, if done well, will take an average of 3-4 hours per week for most participants.

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If cannot complete a module's assignments in time, please notify the instructor at your soonest availability. As long as you stay in communication, our instructors will accommodate your need for additional time as best they can.

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Each course is facilitated by an instructor educated in the Paul-Elder conception of critical thinking, under the direction of the Foundation's Senior Fellows. In recent years, some courses have been instructed by  Dr. Paul Bankes , while others have been instructed by Dr. Brian Barnes .

Our registration fee covers the cost of tuition and all course materials. This fee is $942.

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• 'I told my boss this week during a faculty meeting that this has been the best [higher education] course I've ever taken.'
• 'The instruction and course content was phenomenal. . . . this course has added significant value to my life.'
• 'I have really enjoyed this course. . . meetings were engaging and very informative. I plan to attend additional offerings this academic year.'

• "I would like to express my deepest appreciation to you [Dr. Linda Elder] and Richard Paul. You both created a system for life guidance through your very arduous work on critical thinking. Thank you for adding the intellectual virtues to critical thinking. Critical thinking without the intellectual virtues is still narrow-minded thinking. Thanks to [instructor] Paul Bankes [CT700], we could get familiar with fairminded critical thinking this semester in the class. Since I have also attended a couple of courses in psychology, I could better understand what majestic guidance you have created to help us have better lives by improving our way of thinking. I just wanted to say "THANK YOU" for each second you have devoted in this way. I will try to internalize fairminded critical thinking in my life and help to develop this idea as much as I possibly can. I hope one day I can claim that I am from the community of Fairminded Critical Thinking."
• "I would like to extend my sincere gratitude for allowing me to complete the CT700 Course. It has been the most humbling and enlightening experience of my academic life. . . . I will now embark on my vision to make a difference in the South African Education System. Once, again, my gratitude goes out to you . . . "
• "CT700 was an excellent course that changed my thinking and life. It was painful at times and I found it took time for me to meaningfully complete the assignments. As I worked through the first few weeks, I also wondered if I would be able to change my thinking process. By the end of the course, I grew personally and professionally in ways that I wasn’t sure were possible."

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DENVER, Aug. 18, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded in popularity. It powers models that help us drive vehicles, proofread emails and even design new molecules for medications. But just like a human, it’s hard to read AI’s mind. Explainable AI (XAI), a subset of the technology, could help us do just that by justifying a model’s decisions. And now, researchers are using XAI to not only scrutinize predictive AI models more closely, but also to peer deeper into the field of chemistry. 

The researchers will present their results at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS Fall 2024 is a hybrid meeting being held virtually and in person Aug. 18-22; it features about 10,000 presentations on a range of science topics.

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AI’s vast number of uses has made it almost ubiquitous in today’s technological landscape. However, many AI models are black boxes, meaning it’s not clear exactly what steps are taken to produce a result. And when that result is something like a potential drug molecule, not understanding the steps might stir up skepticism with scientists and the public alike. “As scientists, we like justification,” explains Rebecca Davis, a chemistry professor at the University of Manitoba. “If we can come up with models that help provide some insight into how AI makes its decisions, it could potentially make scientists more comfortable with these methodologies.”

One way to provide that justification is with XAI. These machine learning algorithms can help us see behind the scenes of AI decision making. Though XAI can be applied in a variety of contexts, Davis’ research focuses on applying it to AI models for drug discovery, such as those used to predict new antibiotic candidates. Considering that thousands of candidate molecules can be screened and rejected to approve just one new drug — and antibiotic resistance is a continuous threat to the efficacy of existing drugs — accurate and efficient prediction models are critical. “I want to use XAI to better understand what information we need to teach computers chemistry,” says Hunter Sturm, a graduate student in chemistry in Davis’ lab who’s presenting the work at the meeting.

The researchers started their work by feeding databases of known drug molecules into an AI model that would predict whether a compound would have a biological effect. Then, they used an XAI model developed by collaborator Pascal Friederich at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to examine the specific parts of the drug molecules that led to the model’s prediction. This helped explain why a particular molecule had activity or not, according to the model, and that helped Davis and Sturm understand what an AI model might deem important and how it creates categories once it has examined many different compounds. 

The researchers realized that XAI can see things that humans might have missed; it can consider far more variables and data points at once than a human brain. For example, when screening a set of penicillin molecules, the XAI found something interesting. “Many chemists think of penicillin’s core as the critical site for antibiotic activity,” says Davis. “But that’s not what the XAI saw.” Instead, it identified structures attached to that core as the critical factor in its classification, not the core itself. “This might be why some penicillin derivatives with that core show poor biological activity,” explains Davis. 

In addition to identifying important molecular structures, the researchers hope to use XAI to improve predictive AI models. “XAI shows us what computer algorithms define as important for antibiotic activity,” explains Sturm. “We can then use this information to train an AI model on what it’s supposed to be looking for,” Davis adds.

Next, the team will partner with a microbiology lab to synthesize and test some of the compounds the improved AI models predict would work as antibiotics. Ultimately, they hope XAI will help chemists create better, or perhaps entirely different, antibiotic compounds, which could help stem the tide of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. 

“AI causes a lot of distrust and uncertainty in people. But if we can ask AI to explain what it’s doing, there’s a greater likelihood that this technology will be accepted,” says Davis. 

Sturm adds that he thinks AI applications in chemistry and drug discovery represent the future of the field. “Someone needs to lay the foundation. That’s what I hope I’m doing.”

The research was funded by the University of Manitoba, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. 

Visit the  ACS Fall 2024 program  to learn more about this presentation, “Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence to explore the relationship between structure and activity,” and other science presentations.

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