Thursday, April 8, 2010
Blog 3_Wk2_Intro to Critical Thinking+
The introduction to Fisher’s Critical Thinking provided an interesting analogy that can be connected with the parody news anchors described in “Sarcastic Times”. When Fisher describes that teaching content is indirectly/implicitly supposed to teach students thinking skills, this can be likened to people watching the news. (Similar to question 1.8) Typical news broadcasts visually present information in a way whose bias, since it is impossible to be truly devoid of it, is not so noticeably presented to incite a need within ourselves to question its validity. Passively accepting this information, however, only indirectly/implicitly educates you regarding the subject presented; usually leading one to form a misinformed personal standing with said subject presented. However, the absurd humor the “sarcastic news” anchors use to present information is in such blatant bias that we cannot afford to idly accept what is being presented, as we are able to readily accept information if we are forced to “judge the credibility of [it’s] source”. This confrontation over its validity theoretically prompts the viewers to garner more information on the subject than is being presented, leading the viewer to a more informed personal opinion on the subject and more in-depth knowledge of the news story being presented. In this way, sarcastic news anchors are not only critical thinkers themselves due to their brand of bias being produced by “careful consideration of a belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds which support it and the further conclusions to which it tends” and being “disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one’s experience,” but are also instigators of critical thinking for their audience.
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I like your use of citations from the article. It helps your argument but it still reads quite smoothly.
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