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Mastering Critical Thinking
Role Play
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(39 ratings)
131 students

Mastering Critical Thinking

A Practical Guide to Sharpen Your Mind
Role Play
Created byRobert Folker
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Define critical thinking.
  • Understand the importance of critical thinking in personal and professional contexts.
  • Identify some common cognitive biases.
  • Foster intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness.
  • Cultivate a growth mindset.
  • Identify the six components of critical thinking.
  • Demonstrate the ability to keenly observe and investigate to gain knowledge.
  • Demonstrate the ability to understand and comprehend a topic or problem.
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply the CRAAP test to assess sources and information.
  • Demonstrate the ability to organize and analyze information to simplify complexities.
  • Demonstrate the ability to synthesize information, make inferences, and draw conclusions.
  • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and provide recommendations and decisions.

Course content

8 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 3m total length

  • Instructor Introduction3:13

    This short video summaries my critical thinking journey.  I hope you'll join me!

  • Use of AI Technology and Tools1:16

    This video explains how I used AI to improve the production quality while retaining original content in this course.

  • Course Introduction5:37

    This lecture explains why critical thinking is important, provides a definition of critical thinking, identifies the six components of critical thinking, and describes critical thinking's relationship to decision making.

  • Knowledge Check

Requirements

  • No experience needed. This is a foundational course that will help you improve how you think and make better decisions in all areas of your life.

Description

This course provides the foundation for students to identify and develop mastery in specific critical thinking skills to improve the decisions they make in all areas of their life. We'll start by examining why critical thinking matters and define our terms and key concepts. Next, we'll identify and discuss how to overcome several common cognitive biases, foster intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness, and cultivate a growth mindset. We'll also examine in detail the six components of critical thinking, which are: observing, understanding, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating. Next, we'll use the Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose (CRAAP) test to help us assess the reliability of sources and credibility of information. Then, we'll discuss how to use deductive and inductive reasoning to form arguments and evaluate the strength of an argument. Each module of instruction is followed with a knowledge check to help you retain and apply key learning points. Before you take the final assessment, you'll also have several opportunities to develop your critical thinking skills in each of the six components as you apply your skills to a problem-centric scenario. These exercises are intended to help you transfer what you learn to the real-world and give yourself the decision advantage.

Who this course is for:

  • This is a foundational course and was written as a preparatory course to improve student success in the Level 1 Intelligence Analyst Certification Course. However, this comprehensive course is also a great refresher course for even the most seasoned critical thinker. It will empower individuals with the knowledge and techniques necessary to enhance their critical thinking skills. Through a combination of theory, practical exercises, and real-world applications, participants will develop the ability to gather information, validate, and analyze to solve problems and make informed decisions.

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