Additional Resources

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow

If you’re looking for more wisdom on critical thinking, check out these websites and books!

Websites

UTC Resources

Visit these resources curated by the Walker Center for Teaching and Learning (WCTL) and the Center for Academic Support and Advisement.

WCTL – Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Learn about the importance of teaching critical thinking, its characteristics, and teaching strategies to promote it.

ThinkAchieve (WCTL) – Critical Thinking Resources: View various types of additional resources on critical thinking.

Center for Academic Support and Advisement – What is Critical Thinking?: Learn about different ways to brainstorm ideas.

The Foundation for Critical Thinking

Peruse through a research library and sample critical thinking assessments.

Please note that although it is free to view the Foundation for Critical Thinking, access to many of its articles require paid membership for The Center for Critical Thinking Community.

Foundation for Critical Thinking

The K. Patricia Cross Academy

Watch demonstration videos for various techniques/class activities to build critical thinking skills. Most videos also include suggestions on how to adapt the activity for online learning.

The K. Patricia Cross Academy

Project Look Sharp: Ithaca College

After registering for a free account, download materials on stand-alone lessons, subject area kits, and featured topic activities on topics such as social science, science, psychology, film/fine arts, consumer education, and more.

Project Look Sharp

TeachThought 50+ Critical Strategies for Learning

Access brief prompts that can be used with course topics/material to create writing/assignment/project ideas.

TeachThought

Books

WCTL Recommendations

Think Again

Adam Grant "investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners.“

Super Courses: The future of teaching and learning

Ken Bain provides examples of high school, college, and graduate school instructors who use "evidence-based approaches to spark deeper levels of learning, critical thinking, and creativity."

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman explores how our minds are "tripped by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking."

Other Titles to Check Out

Calling Bullshit

Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West discuss "a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data" of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news.

How to Make the World Add Up

Tim Harford "draws on his experience as both an economist and presenter of the BBC's radio show 'More or Less' to take us deep into the world of disinformation and obfuscation, bad research, and misplaced motivation to find those priceless jewels of data and analysis that make communicating with numbers so rewarding."

Factfulness

Hans Rosling "offers the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps to the way we consume media to how we perceive progress."

Black Box Thinking

Matthew Syed uses case studies and cutting-edge research on "marginal gains, creativity and grit" to tell "the inside story of how success really happens – and how we cannot grow unless we are prepared to learn from our mistakes."

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli discusses cognitive biases, how to spot them, avoid them, and make better decisions to transform decision-making at work and at home.

A More Beautiful Question

Warren Berger discusses how questioning "can help us identify and solve problems, come up with game-changing ideas, and pursue fresh opportunities."