Making Critical & Creative Thinking Visible

The Making Critical Thinking Visible webpage is a repository of activities, assignments, and other curricular elements UW instructors have created to make critical and creative thinking more visible in their courses. Designed, tested, and refined by faculty throughout the university, the resources here have furthered students’ facility with recognizing, articulating, and demonstrating critical thinking in diverse contexts. We invite you to adopt and adapt these resources for use in your own classes and curricula. 

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Making CCT Visible Resource Submissions

The ECTL's "Making It Visible" webpage is designed to celebrate the thoughtful activities, assignments, and other curricular elements UW instructors have created to help students develop their critical and creative thinking skills. We hope the ideas presented here will motivate others to make critical and creative thinking more visible in their own courses.

Why? We want educators to make critical thinking visible because we know that students are more likely to transfer, appreciate, and apply skills when they understand why they are being asked to engage in certain kinds of tasks. We know that clear frameworks, metacognition, and reflection can encourage students to be more aware of the importance of critical thinking and better versed at engaging their critical thinking skills in diverse contexts.

Do you have a great critical and/or creative thinking assignment, activity, or other resource (e.g., syllabus discussion) to share?

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