The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Monday, September 19, 2011

COMM 150: Critical thinking, in-class discussion notes ... and a $13.95 word for how we know what we know and why we think what we think

D R A F T

From class Monday, our definitions of critical thinking, typos and all ...

not taking the first thoughtt as the right one – looking further

researched, planned out

internal debate ... for the purpose of deciding a perspective

thinking – clear, rational – ID importance between ideas

open-minded thinking

think - focused approach

probing deeper into thought for ideas

tjomlomg amd ama;uzomg

thinking and analyzing to come up w/ best solution

What we're talking about is epistemology (huh? he say what?) ... it's a term that philosophy students have thrown around for more than 100 years. And it has something to do with how the media affect our daily lives. Huh? So let's find out what it is.
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2 comments:

dave maziarz said...

those are some solid critical thinking definitions!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 3:04:00 PM CDT
L.Sullivan said...

Epistemology is the study of knowledge; what is it, how do we gain knowledge and how do we know what we know. The media bombards us with all kinds of knowlege. It is up to us to decipher what we see and hear. Sometimes we need to probe a little deeper and not just except someone elses point of view, or maybe we just want more information. How we know what we know is pretty much up to us. It depends on what we believe to be true.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 1:01:00 PM CDT

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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.