: About Me

My interests, education and experiences are both wide and deep. I love to cook, play word and number games and puzzles, and see new places.

I am a prize-winning humor writer, with a long-term interest in education reform and philosophy, and am also newly active in politics and energy issues.

My passion is ...

Challenging assumptions, bullshit, scams and political rhetoric.

I know too much about ...

... too many obscure things.

My childhood ambition ...

To see all the wonderful things I'd read about.

My favorite memory ...

Getting out of the Navy.

Why I write ...

To create, and to encourage critical thinking and egalitarianism.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything is Miscellaneous. Blink! Smart Mobs. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Night. What is the What?

My first job ...

Paid poorly and sucked ass.

My best moment ...

Was getting married.

My inspiration ...

Ignorance can be fixed; brotherhood is achievable. But we have to want it.

Education > Homework & Testing Homework projects that develop critical thinking skills

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Simply put, critical thinking skills involve establishing the credibility of information sources, challenging the assumptions behind conclusions and reasoning, and confirming the consistency of your own logic and reasoning. It is the scientific method applied to thinking itself. Therefore I will offer some guidelines which are generally applicable, rather than specific assignments limited to particular subjects. Typically, assignments which build critical thinking skills are of the 'open-ended question' variety; they often are open to wide interpretation, and have no deterministic 'right' ...

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