Critical-Thinking

• A Working Definition of critical thinking by Michael Scriven and Richard Paul: http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/crit2.html
• If X, Then Y: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills, Gwynn M. Powell.

• Major Components of Critical Thinking: http://louisville.edu/ideastoaction/proposal/table1.html

• Facilitation of Critical Thinking and Deep Cognitive Processing
  by Structured Discussion Board ActivitiesJocelyn Thomas Department of Psychology University of New Orleans: http://www.celt.lsu.edu/CFD/E-Proceedings/Facilitation%20of%20Critical%20Thinking%20and%20Deep%20Cognitive%

20Processing.htm

• Facilitating critical thinking: environmentwww.ecu.edu.au/conferences/herdsa/main/papers/ref/pdf/Mummery.pdf
• Facilitation of Critical Thinking and Deep Cognitive Processing
  by Structured Discussion Board ActivitiesJocelyn Thomas Department of Psychology University of New Orleans: http://www.celt.lsu.edu/CFD/E-Proceedings/Facilitation%20of%20Critical%20Thinking%20and%20Deep%20Cognitive%20Processing.htm
• Facilitating critical thinking: environmentwww.ecu.edu.au/conferences/herdsa/main/papers/ref/pdf/Mummery.pdf
• Exploring the relationship between learning style and critical thinking:
  http://www.celt.lsu.edu/CFD/E-Proceedings/Facilitation%20of%20Critical%20Thinking%20and%20Deep%20Cognitive%20Processing.htm
• Art of Facilitation: As an outcome of facilitation, critical thinking has several components, being: positive. and productive, a process rather than an objective, contextual in ... www.kipflock.com/store/pdf/art-of-facilitation.pdf
• Critical thinking as a core skill: issues and discussion paper. Anita van der Wal. Learning and Development Program, The University of Newcastle

Communication-Skills

• Communication Skills, By Karen Irmsher, ERIC Digest 102 January 1996, College of Education · University of Oregon
• Good communication skills key to success, Doug Hare. Can Vet J. 2003 August; 44(8): 621–622.http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=340220
• How to Develop Good Communication Skills, from WikiHow. Here are some guidelines for developing good communication skills that you can practice anywhere and at anytime.
• Good Scientific Communication Skills by David Schultz: http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~schultz/communication.html

Use of Questions to Guide

• Socratic method: From Wikipedia
• Socratic questioning: http://www.changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/socratic_questions.htm
• Taxonomy of Socratic Questioning: Examples of different types of questioning to help students to clarify, to probe for assumptions, to probe reasoning and evidence for responses and the implications: http://ed.fnal.gov/trc/tutorial/taxonomy.html and http://www.i-learnt.com/Thinking_Socratic_Questioning.html
• Intonational Cues to Student Questions in Tutoring Dialogs. By Jennifer J. Venditti, Julia Hirschberg, Jackson Liscombe. INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Learning

• Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Levels: http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/learning/bloom.htm
• Have you ever thought about why the big bad wolf never catches the three little pigs? We'll try to answer that question, as we refresh our memory about Bloom's Taxonomy: http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/BloomsTaxonomy/blooms06.htm