Shit. I was driving to one of my jobs after a morning of physics, and realized i hadn't done this critical thinking business... BLAST!!!!! i am such an idiot. so, due to my retardation, i went directly to staples after telling my lovely coworker i would be a bit late, and bought a daily planner type deal. so, maybe i need a little more organizational help than i previously though. so, even though i won't get credit for this, it doesn't hurt to have it anyway, right?
bitchin.
Part 1:
critical thinking: how do i describe it? ew. i guess in straight talk, thinking through situations, or posed problems with the intent of explanation, or future argumentation. according to wikipedia (love it) it would be: the 'mental processes of discernment, analysis and evaluation' la di da. and it says something about common sense. so, street smarts, right? empirical knowledge... someone paid attention in class. excellent.
now it gets tricky. when have i thought critically? me, common sense? cripes. i guess you have to critically think in my physics class, or mostly the lab. in science in general? physics, specifically. you are given equations, told what the variables represent, then you are sent into the lab to experiment, and collect raw data. With that raw data you have to find the other variables, put then in some sort of sensicle order, and then explain what all that means. wow, if i were to reread what i am typing, i don't know that it is coherent. teach me to answer phones and blog at the same time...
when have i not thougth something through critically? all the time, every day? when i was still in high school, i blew off figuring out my future a bit. i didn't think about where i could honestly go, even though i would preach about wanting to go to a four year. so, instead i moved two states away to go to a junior college. didn't really analyze my situation or think about the consequences of those lack of actions.
Part 2
that quote is mind boggling. my comprehension is almost shot.
until this class, i connotated the word 'intellecutal' in intelligence. some people who are intelligent are nice, others are goobers. so, positive or negative, not answerable for me, but the implication of book smarts. after our class discussion i realized that an intellectual is not necessarily book smart, so i will have to rethink my connotations...
logic and reason are empirical knowledge, things you learn from experience. i am wrong actually. logic is something you are born with and it grows through experience. reason is what you are taught when you are young. if you are not nurtured in these area's i don't believe you can ever force yourself to get them for yourself later in life. so, for me, they have positive connotations if you posses them. i think poorly of someone who lacks one or both logic and reason.
maybe next time i will get this posted on time....
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Pre-Reading Blog #1
Here I am, 20 years old, and still at community college. Granted, I had to take a year off, but if I were 16 again, I would have thought for sure (!!) that I would be at a four year institution of some sort, even a mental one....
Sierra is my second jc. I went to DVC in Concord, closer to the bay. While going there straight out of high school, I had to learn how to swim, or at least keep my head above water, in an environment where I knew absolutely nobody. I had moved from Colorado, and I am shy and quiet when I don't know anyone, but I can come out of my shell and have fun if I know even just one person. I ramble. Cripes.
uh, my impressions of education thus far? we are taught to the test. it is rather irritating. in my year sobbatical from school, i realized i LOVE to learn. i love to enrich my mind. i am not the smartest or brightest crayon in the box, but i am passionate about learning, and for that matter, my education.
I did enjoy high school, i was in Colorado, and had a close group of friends. i was by no means popular, but was the girl that most people knew. i was 'smart,' AP classes and all that jazz, but some of my friends were smarter. i was kind of a jock, dual sports, and i liked going to school.
in elementary, middle, and high school you take C-SAPS (like, i think, STAR testing??). i was always the 90th percentile or higher, clearly a smarty pants. but then i got to college. well at 18 and 19, i still was FOR SURE a smarty pants. in these international relations courses and business classes with a bunch of older students, i felt pretty awesome, until i realized all i had to do was read the book and take the test. pretty much everyone can do that. so, over the last year and a half, my confidence in my intelligence has plummeted.
i am so ecstatic to be back in school full time. i function as a human being differently, and i think more positively, when i have a full plate and am busy most of my time. i love to multitask. i am ready to stretch my intellect.
my problem with the education system? i don't know what to be when i grow up. and i think i am growing up too fast to figure it out. i am also afraid i'm not smart enough. that i won't add anything to society, or won't be unique.
Why aren't we, as students, more harshly critiqued? Why is a 'C' grade devoid of it's true meaning, mediocrity?
rationalism-reasoning based on truth and actuality
anti-rationalism-against truth based reasoning (?)
fundamentalism- support for literal explanation and adaptation
Sierra is my second jc. I went to DVC in Concord, closer to the bay. While going there straight out of high school, I had to learn how to swim, or at least keep my head above water, in an environment where I knew absolutely nobody. I had moved from Colorado, and I am shy and quiet when I don't know anyone, but I can come out of my shell and have fun if I know even just one person. I ramble. Cripes.
uh, my impressions of education thus far? we are taught to the test. it is rather irritating. in my year sobbatical from school, i realized i LOVE to learn. i love to enrich my mind. i am not the smartest or brightest crayon in the box, but i am passionate about learning, and for that matter, my education.
I did enjoy high school, i was in Colorado, and had a close group of friends. i was by no means popular, but was the girl that most people knew. i was 'smart,' AP classes and all that jazz, but some of my friends were smarter. i was kind of a jock, dual sports, and i liked going to school.
in elementary, middle, and high school you take C-SAPS (like, i think, STAR testing??). i was always the 90th percentile or higher, clearly a smarty pants. but then i got to college. well at 18 and 19, i still was FOR SURE a smarty pants. in these international relations courses and business classes with a bunch of older students, i felt pretty awesome, until i realized all i had to do was read the book and take the test. pretty much everyone can do that. so, over the last year and a half, my confidence in my intelligence has plummeted.
i am so ecstatic to be back in school full time. i function as a human being differently, and i think more positively, when i have a full plate and am busy most of my time. i love to multitask. i am ready to stretch my intellect.
my problem with the education system? i don't know what to be when i grow up. and i think i am growing up too fast to figure it out. i am also afraid i'm not smart enough. that i won't add anything to society, or won't be unique.
Why aren't we, as students, more harshly critiqued? Why is a 'C' grade devoid of it's true meaning, mediocrity?
rationalism-reasoning based on truth and actuality
anti-rationalism-against truth based reasoning (?)
fundamentalism- support for literal explanation and adaptation
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