Jessica's Critical Thinking Exercise - Part 2

When I started my part one assignment for this blog critical thinking was a way to analyze an idea and see if after questioning it, would that make a difference for me. After reading other part one posts It seems that most of us took critical thinking to mean a similar definition and some actually quoted the dictionary but we all expressed our ideas of critical thinking in a different way. It seems that most of our academic works came from an NCC class that made us question and idea that we thought we were sure of. For example questioning hot topics, values, and previous judgements. I think that we all see critical thinking as a way to explore another side of an argument or topic without being biased. Critical thinking has led me to see some topics in a new light and I think that most of us have changed our thinking about things from time to time throughout our academic life.

When it came to discussing a non written text I read a few (including my own) that dealt with a tradgedy. A few of us related critical thinking to 9/11 and how the terrorist attacks make us look at the world and question why something that awful could happen. This part of the posting made me realize just how much critical thinking influences our everydays lives.

Thinking critically isn't just making judgements about a topic but it involves thinking outside the box and coming up w/ new conclusions to existing ideas.