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Critical Thinking Web Sites

• Austhink
  http://www.austhink.org/
  "Austhink are leaders in argument mapping, the use of software-supported graphical techniques for handling complex argumentation. Argument maps help us comprehend, evaluate, produce and communicate complex reasoning on any topic."

• ButterfliesandWheels.com
  http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/

• Center for Critical Thinking: Research in Teaching Critical Thinking
  http://www.criticalthinking.org/aboutCT/Research.shtml
  "The Center conducts advanced research and disseminates information on critical thinking."

• Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
  http://mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/toc.htm

• Critical Thinking Community
  http://www.criticalthinking.org/

• Critical Thinking Mini-Lessons
  http://skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons.html

• Critical Thinking On The Web
  http://www.austhink.org/critical/
  "A directory of quality online resources."

• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
  http://www.eric.ed.gov
  Search the ERIC database for articles on teaching critical thinking in your discipline.

• Maryland Consortium of Community Colleges for Teaching Reasoning
  http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/

• Mission Critical
  http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/index.html

• PESTS: Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically
  http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/ricker/pests/

• Resources for Independent Thinking
  http://www.rit.org/

• Skeptic Magazine: Online Library
  http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/index.html

• Skeptical Inquirer: Online Articles
  http://www.csicop.org/si/online.html

• The Skeptic’s Dictionary
  http://skepdic.com/

• Snopes.Com: Urban Legends Reference Pages
  http://www.snopes.com/

• SS Critical Thinking
  http://www.accd.edu/sac/history/keller/ACCDitg/SSCT.htm

• Critical Reading
  http://www.criticalreading.com/

CT Online Columns

• Bad Moves by Julian Baggini
  http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/badmoves.php
  Bad Moves is a series by philosopher Julian Baggini detailing the various ways in which arguments or points are made badly, but often persuasively.

• Who's Counting by John Allen Paulos
  http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/
  Who's Counting is a series by mathematician John Allen Paulos that describes the use of numbers and statistics in arguments.

General Teaching Sites

• Talk About Teaching
  http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/teach/teachall.html
  This web site is housed at the University of Pennsylvania and has archives that go back to 1994.

CT Web Pages Content:
Jeffry Ricker

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