Introduction to Critical Thinking by Steven Shafersman

Steven Shafersman alerts his reader the the necessity of being awake and cognitive to academic thinking. It is not written in
erudite academic language that reprimands the reader to Pay Attention! Weed Out this Information! Do not Parrot Back!
Instead the tone of the article is conversant and advisory as to how to give the right signals so that young middle school
and high school students might use reasoning and creative thought to their information as they take read it and process it.
Critical thinking is not, the article seems to say, argumentative thinking, nor defiant but rather it is the senses as we read
and do homework (even in as factual a subject as math) keen upon creative solutions. The authority that wrote an essay
on a scientific topic might be questioned. The math problem could have a view that is not so traditional.
From experience of learning a hard subject, math in elementary school with green and red wooden beads laced onto a
cardboard in horizontal lines....units, tens, one hundreds to the new approach to math where groups of numbers and
combinations are visualized through blocks, I found the essay worth thinking about....critical thinking might not be about
we want to see creativity...nor is it about we need a unique answer...it really is about not becoming a subject to information
that appears on the page of homework or the article written in the magazine.
I disagree...is really a positive response. My thought about this is....veer away from a parroted, recited response...
Word your homework questions with a slant towards the invented or original response.