Episode 75: The SQUARED Method of Critical Thinking – Defining
Defining is kind of like summarizing, in that you want to use your own words to say the definition as simply as possible. Join Adam and Dinur as we go over this process!
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Episode 74: The SQUARED Method of Critical Thinking: Explaining
Explaining is taking what you have learned, and tying it to your own experience by using examples and analogies. Join Dinur and Adam as we go over this technique! Show Notes No show notes this episode
Episode 73: The SQUARED Method of Critical Thinking – Relating
Relating is when you take several things you’ve learned about different topics and tie them together. Join Adam and Dinur as we talk about how to do this! Show Notes No show notes this episode
Episode 72: The SQUARED Method of Critical Thinking – Analyzing
Analyzing is when you take several things you’ve learned about a single topic and tie them together. Join Adam and Dinur as we talk about different ways to analyze what you’re learning! Show Notes No show notes this episode
Episode 71: The SQUARED Method of Critical Thinking – Unpacking
Unpacking is getting down to the details of what you need to know about a topic. It’s sort of the opposite of summarizing. Join Dinur and Adam as we talk about how to dig down into the details! Show Notes No show notes this episode
Episode 70: The SQUARED Method for Critical Thinking – Questioning
Questioning is the art of finding the weak or missing points of any topic and knowing why they’re weak or missing. We do this by asking questions and finding out which ones don’t have answers. Join Dinur and Adam as we talk about which questions work best! Show Notes No show notes this episode
Episode 69: The SQUARED Method of Critical Thinking – Summarizing
“Summarize” means to say the same thing in fewer words. Many students don’t know how to do this. In this first episode of our Critical Thinking series, Adam and Dinur go over how summarizing works. Show Notes Paragraph from our shared chapter: In the spring of 2020, the academic world was shaken to its foundations […]