Critical Thinking – What You Already Know
During the final podcast, I ended with a claims regarding the many benefits that would befall our society if the decision-making public (be they choosing whom to vote for, or any other matter) could...
View ArticleHow Ignorant Are We
Republished from Huffington Post: There’s been a bit of hubbub about this piece that tries to make a distinction between different types of ignoramuses that make up the American voting public. While I...
View ArticleCritical Thinking – How Long Does it Take?
My latest HuffPo piece: One of the questions I wanted to answer while creating the Critical Voter curriculum (which used the 2012 presidential election to teach practical critical thinking skills) was...
View ArticleBack in Business
After a brief hiatus (and recovery period), it’s time to kick back into gear here at Critical Voter. While I’ve been reposting pieces written on other sites regarding the Critical Voter project (and...
View ArticleCampaign Finance – Solved!
Republished from Huffington Post: In addition to trying to calculate the amount of time needed to achieve sufficiency with regard to critical thinking knowledge and skill, I’ve also been curious about...
View ArticleResources: Media Literacy
Critical Voter included a foray into the subject of Media Literacy, with a focus on how media play off our senses (particularly those of sight and hearing) to propel logical, emotional or...
View ArticleWhy I Like Negative Ads
I decided to give my Huffpo readers a chance to walk through some of the syllogism and Toulmin analyses we did during election season. Here’s the draw-in: My suggestion last week that developing the...
View ArticleTest Yourself
I’ve been playing around with a program that allows me to add automated quizzing to the site, and just posted an online version of one of the quizzes I created for a Critical Voter lesson (the one on...
View ArticleAristotle vs. Toulmin
I’ve been introducing readers of my Huffington Post column on how to use Aristotle’s syllogisms and Toulmin’s diagrams to analyze the arguments that can be extracted from negative TV ads. Regular...
View ArticleMOOC – Friend or Foe?
Happy New Year to all you Critical Voter readers and listeners. It’s been a few weeks since I last posted, weeks spent doing the whole holiday thing, such as learning about truth tables and how to...
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My Big New Educational Project
It’s been a while since I posted something here at Critical Voter, primarily due to a new project I’m working on that I recently decided deserves its own web site (which you can find starting this...
View ArticleCritical Voter Returns
It’s been close to three years since I last posted here at Critical Voter, during which time I’ve been involved with a number of other educational projects, including my One Year MOOC BA adventure some...
View ArticleThe Critical Voter Heads North
Well two boxes of pre-release print copies of Critical Voter arrived on my doorstep yesterday, so those of you who asked for an advanced review copy should have one in your hands within the next few...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the New Hampshire Primary
Just got back from the frigid Granite state with a dozen fewer copies of Critical Voter, having had the chance to put books into the hands of people at most of the campaign headquarters visited on...
View ArticleArgumentation and Audience
The one campaign event I saw during my visit to New Hampshire last weekend was a John Kasich Town Hall event held in Milford where about 200 people showed up to politely grill the candidate. Kasich, a...
View ArticleWhat Next with Critical Voter?
I hope this week’s postings gave you a small taste of what can be gained from turning the upcoming election into an opportunity to become critical thinkers. For you political junkies eager to figure...
View ArticleWhat a Week
So what are you planning to do to pass the time as the fate of the Republic gets decided tomorrow by a quarter- to half-a-million Iowans? If I can make a modest (if self-serving) suggestion: why not...
View ArticleDonald Trump and His Critics (from Huffington Post)
I just revived my Huffington Post column and thought Critical Voter readers might want to hear what I’m saying over there about this year’s most talked-about (mostly by himself) Presidential candidate:...
View ArticleWho Predicted Iowa Results 2500 Years Ago?
That promised Part II to yesterday’s piece (also from Huffington Post) which tries to explain how Aristotle, 25 centuries ago, might have predicted Donald Trump’s recent loss in Iowa. As the Interwebs...
View ArticleInsights for the Serious Self Publisher
I’ve started a series on self-publishing over at LinkedIn which I plan to share here at Critical Voter over the next several Thursdays. In addition to commentary on the election and critical thinking,...
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