By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What are critical thinking skills? Steven Forth, TeamFit, 2019/03/14What caught my attention first was Steven Forth's skills profile. It's a very detailed listing of skills, 324 in all, with expertise in them ranging...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jim Ridgway, Sean McCusker and Daniel Pead[Edit][Delete]: Literature Review of E-assessment, NESTA Futurelab [Edit][Delete] January 31, 2006 [link: Hits] Funny how things work in the blogosphere. This report has been...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The State of Critical Thinking Reboot, 2019/01/11This is a fairly detailed report (20 page PDF) based on a survey conducted using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The study notes that while "strong reasoning skills have become...

Critical Thinking Skills to Help Students Better Evaluate Scientific Claims Leah Shaffer, Mind/Shift, 2017/12/22So much of what people are calling "critical thinking" and even "digital literacy" revolves around the idea of evaluating claims. This article...

Young adults who are, perhaps, still figuring out their needs don’t need to be overburdened with books they won’t like. The last thing we want is for a young reader to get turned off and lose out on the immeasurable benefits reading provides. More...