Week+1

Exercise 1 Answer the following questions about a course that you are taking now:
 * Journal writing**
 * 1) How does what I learn in this course relate to my own experience?
 * 2) How can I use what I learn here in my own life?
 * 3) Can I think up my own examples?
 * 4) How does this subject matter relate to other courses I am taking?
 * 5) What is the evidence behind this?
 * 6) How do the topics in this course fit together? What is the purpose of the course?
 * 7) Why?


 * Exercise 1, Pt II**


 * 1) Reflect on your educational experience a little. Which of the questions listed by teachers are ones you tend to ask yourself in courses you are taking? Which of them do you never ask?
 * 2) Keep a journal of questions that arise during a course you are taking now: questions about the subject matter itself, about how it affects you (or not) about how you can use it, about implications of the course, about the way it is taught, about the assignments given, or about assignments not given.

Write down 3 questions you have about critical thinking. Write down 3 questions you have about how you will be using critical thinking in this course. Of these 6 questions pick out the one you think is the best. If no real questions came to you, even after pushing, what conclusions do you draw from that?
 * Exercise II**

What are some concrete things that I can do…
 * Exercise III**
 * to improve my job performance
 * to make better grades?
 * t o meet new people?
 * to read more effectively?
 * to make the subject matter of this course meaningful in my life?
 * Exercise IV**
 * Identify some situations in your life that are problematic, situations that are not going as well as you think they should. Write them as questions. Be specific in how you describe them. Don’t just say, “How can I get along with my friends?” Focus the question: “How can I best deal with Arthur when I feel him pressuring me to do X when I don’t think I should be doing X?”
 * Write a list of further questions that you should be asking about those situations.


 * Exercise V**
 * Describe situations in which your emotions led you astray in your reasoning.
 * Describe some situations in which your emotions made a positive contribution to your reasoning.
 * Try to discover patterns in your emotional reactions so you can assess when your emotions tend to be accurate

Exercise IV Keep an ongoing journal of questions that arise during a course you are taking now. Questions may be about …
 * Ongoing reflections**
 * the subject matter itself
 * how it affects you (or does not affect you)
 * how you can use this knowledge
 * implications of the course
 * the way the course is taught
 * the assignments given
 * the assignments not given