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[1] From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu> (19)
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2001
[2] From: "James L Morrison" <morrison@unc.edu> (31)
Subject: Technology Source, March/April 2001
[3] From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu> (67)
Subject: Re: 14.0678 function follows form, or not
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:24:12 +0000
From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2001
CIT INFOBITS February 2001 No. 32 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
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Costs of Online Education
Technology and the Biological Process of Learning
Guidelines for Distance Education Released
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Web Tools for Detecting Student Plagiarism
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:27:04 +0000
From: "James L Morrison" <morrison@unc.edu>
Subject: Technology Source, March/April 2001
Below my signature bloc is a description of the March/April 2001 issue of
The Technology Source, a free, refereed e-Journal available at
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/.
Noel Fiser, the webmaster that SCT provides as part of their sponsorship of
The Technology Source, has revamped TS to enhance its value to the
educational community. The new look includes a smoother, icon-based
contents page for every issue, making navigation easier and giving an
immediate overview of that issue's articles. Abstracts of each article are
provided below the table of contents.
Also featured are a series of options near the end of each article. You may
print a printer-friendly version of the article, email the article to a
colleague, take part in an online discussion about the article (and get a
note if someone responds to your post), or see related articles, grouped by
subject matter or section of TS. You may also search for any article in the
TS archives.
In addition, at the very end of each article, we provide the copyright
information to be used when distributing an article. This makes it explicit
that our articles can be distributed freely for educational purposes.
We are excited about making TS a more interactive and useful communication
tool as educators face the challenge of using information technology tools
to enhance teaching, learning, and management. Please take a look at the
new and improved version and let me know what we can do further to improve
its utility in your work.
Jim
-- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, The Technology Source UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Editor Emeritus, On the Horizon Phone: 919 962-2517 http://www.camfordpublishing.com Fax: 919 962-1693[material deleted]
--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:35:10 +0000 From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu> Subject: Re: 14.0678 function follows form, or not
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> [Do you have any recommendations where I can send my students on the web to > learn more about argument per se?]
At the risk of shameless self-advertising - my web pages on this, while basic and crude, often receive kudos from various folk as useful:
A Database of Informal Fallacies <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/Logic/Informal/Overview.html>
Flush Rush?: or, how to make moral decisions in the face of uncertainty (an exercise in critical thinking and values analysis) <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/convo1.html>
The last time I did a Google search on logic and critical thinking, I was surprised - though perhaps shouldn't have been - by how few sites (ca. 75) turned up; even fewer were of any substance - though some are quite good, e.g., Critical Thinking Resources: An Annotated Bibliography < http://www.montclair.edu/Pages/CRC/Bibliographies/CriticalThinking.html> Laura Bardroff Zieger Curriculum Resource Center Office of Teacher Education Center of Pedagogy College of Education and Human Services Montclair State University Upper Montclair, New Jersey Fall 1998 An amazingly rich annotated bibliography
AltaVista maintains a page of sites devoted to critical thinking: http://dir.altavista.com/Science/53335/37438/135847.shtml
In addition to the sites for "The Critical Thinking Community" (Richard Pauls company <http://www.sonoma.edu/cthink/>) among them are the following -
See: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/tour/tourfrm3.html An overview of elements of critical thinking, as focused on argument analysis, questions of validity and soundness, and informal fallacies. Part of the "Mission:Critical" web site one of the best Ive seen on critical thinking: <http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html>
Fallacies - Stephen Downes - A guide to arguing and logical fallacies. http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.htm A logic instructors site very nice, including a list of fallacies with definitions and examples, as well as a resource list.
An experiment in group learning technology: evaluating critical thinking in face-to-face and computer-supported seminars http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/papers/ccvsem/contents.html Details the analysis of CT in face-to-face seminars vs. conferencing systems. (Small sample, somewhat dated.) Interestingly enough, while CT appears to have been somewhat greater in conferencing systems, the level of participation dropped (perhaps because of difficulty in using the system, etc.)
Evaluating Web Resources, by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm An effort to provide guidelines for evaluating web-based materials.
Applying critical thinking to strategic decision-making in business: http://members.xoom.com/cooperate/!critthi.htm Beware! The authors have a product to sell!
With all best wishes,
Charles Ess Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/Departments/phil-relg/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2000: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_
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