TIPS:

• 建议思考题答案初稿写在你的“课程笔记本”上。

• 你可以选择抄写题目在笔记本上后再回答，也可以直接标注题号后回答。

• 此节答案均可在阅读材料中找到，不提供参考答案，建议同学们相互借鉴。

• 本学期所有有关Critical Thinking的思考题均会进入Quiz的题目来源库。

• 本节有3份阅读材料，请先看题，然后带着问题阅读理解即可。读完后请尝试用1-2句话概述每份材料的要义。

"The only capacity we can use to learn is human thinking. If we think well while learning, we learn well. If we think poorly while learning, we learn poorly."

Without critical thinking guiding the process of learning, rote memorization becomes the primary recourse, with students forgetting at about the same rate they are learning and rarely, if ever, internalizing powerful ideas.

Material 1- What is Critical Thinking

Material 2-What is the Logic of History & How to Think Historically

Q2-1: (Read and decide True or False) 

 All thinking is defined by the eight elements that make it up. In other words, whenever we think, we think for a purpose within apoint of view based on assumptions leading to implications and consequences. We use concepts, ideas and theories to interpret data, facts, and experiences inorder to answer questions, solve problems, and resolve issues.

Q2-2: (Read and decide True of False) 

  Like historical narratives themselves, our understanding of what history is and the shape it should take is flexible and open to debate. For as long as people have studied history, historians have presented different ideas about how the past should be studied, constructed,written and interpreted.

    TIPS:

1. Don't begin your writing assignment until you've read about Strategies for Clarifying and      Understand Important Ideas in this part. To help your understand the strategies, an example ("What is history?") has been given for your reference. 

2. When you answer a study question, never copy what you've found in the reading material. You should practise stating your ideas accurately using your own words, and explaining your ideas in greater detail. Always try to give examples and/or illustrations/analogies and connect what you have elaborated with concrete situations in the real world so as to apply what you are learning to actual situations or problems.

Material 1- Stragegies for Clarifying and Understanding Important Ideas

Material 2- Writing sample: What is history?