{"id":1264,"date":"2018-07-18T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:43:04","slug":"the-emerging-crisis-in-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/the-emerging-crisis-in-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emerging Crisis in Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wall Street article in 2017 reported that \u201con the average students graduate without the ability to read a scatterplot, construct a cohesive argument or identify a logical fallacy\u201d. A more recent article says that mentions of critical thinking in job postings have doubled since 2009. An Economist survey indicated that 72% of employers listed critical thinking and problem solving as the most important workplace skills.<\/p>\n<p>This 4 minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=171&amp;v=3TRdPlwZZfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> from Pearson Learning highlights the key point of this emerging crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell University last month unveiled its Critical Thinking Certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Through eCornell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/courses-certificate\/?course=Critical-Thinking-%28LSMC21%29&amp;cs=6&amp;id=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critical Thinking<\/a> Certificate Program, engineers and designers leading projects, managers and consultants will learn how to deeply analyze a problem, assess possible solutions and associated risks, and hone your strategic decision-making skills by following a methodology based on tested actions and sound approaches.<\/p>\n<p>This certificate program is claimable under SkillsFuture Credit in Singapore and HRDF SBL Scheme in Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wall Street article in 2017 reported that \u201con the average students graduate without the ability to read a scatterplot, construct a cohesive argument or identify a logical fallacy\u201d. A more recent article says that mentions of critical thinking in job postings have doubled since 2009. An Economist survey indicated that 72% of employers listed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-july-2018-issue","category-leadership"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}