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  1. Oct 2020
    1. This is part of why students tend to avoid group work—it challenges us as thinkers and forces us to analyze others while defending ourselves

      i honeslty agree with this claim because i feel like i do little in the group work or too much. what does that make those who like to have group work?

    2. it is creative thinking that you must use if you wish to challenge your professor’s opinion and invent new perspectives on the authors that have not previously been considered.

      will this make us stand out? or look like a know it all to this professor?

    3. higher education both demands creative thinking from us and is the perfect place to practice and develop the skill

      this makes me raise questions about college like how big is the difference between high school and college? will it be up to me to find how to manage it all? who will be there to help?

    4. Do I have any personal biases that may affect my consideration of this information?

      all these questions reminds me of the TED talks and advice from others when considering an option or decision.

    5. we use critical thinking every day as we consider the latest consumer products and why one particular product is the best among its peers

      i can see how a lot of people can relate to this as we see the difference in price, ingredients, and company.

    6. I use them everyday and continue to work to improve them both.

      I predict this will involve being able to accept failure but learning from it. This can end up bringing creativity.

    1. He suggested that teachers teach a large number of words before reading a book to students, by merely giving short definitions, such as synonyms, and then pointing out the words and their meaning while reading the book to students.

      i can see this working out pretty well. this reminds me of an english teacher who did this and every time we were assigned to read a book and encountered unknown words i knew what the meaning was before hands.

    2. Students with a smaller vocabulary than other students comprehend less of what they read and it has been suggested that the most impactful way to improve comprehension is to improve vocabulary.

      i believe it is very important to have a high vocabulary like now when i read articles and such i sometimes struggle with understanding the passage because i dont get certain words

    3. re used to determine the specific neural pathways of activation across two conditions, narrative-level comprehension and sentence-level comprehension

      i can visualize how certain parts of our brain are being used based off of what the task at hand is.