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#1 Discussion Question: (8 Sentences Please)

Here is the Question:

The Questioning Toolkit (to find the Questioning Toolkit, go to this week's reading on questioning listed within "W2 Reading: Elements of Thinking, Reading, Questioning" under "Lessons") identified 17 kinds of questions:

Essential question

Organizing question

Elaborating question

Divergent question

Subsidiary question

Probing question

Unanswerable question

Irrelevant question

Hypothetical question

Sorting and sifting question

Inventive question

Telling question

Clarification question

Provocative question

Planning question

Strategic question

Irreverent question

Remember your last class when the instructor asked for questions? Or the last time you went to a presentation with a question-and-answer session?

Describe the situation

What question did you find most helpful? Why? Which kind of question was it (from the seventeen kinds listed above)?

What question did you find least helpful? Why? Which kind of question was it (from the seventeen kinds listed above)?

# 2 Assignment:

Eight Elements of Thought and Reasoning

The Eight Elements of Thought and the Eight Elements of Reasoning (see this week's readings under "Lessons" in Week Two--the Eight Elements of Thought are in one article, and the Eight Elements of Reasoning are in a second article) both have eight parts, but there are only four real distinct categories.   For example, Point of View and Assumptions are two aspects of the same thing.

Re-organize the eight elements of thought or the eight elements of reasoning into four categories based on the element pairs' similarities. One has been done for you: Point of view and Assumptions. Briefly describe each new category, providing a rationale for why you chose to put those particular two elements into each new category. Include the characteristics of the original eight elements in your descriptions. Please note that I expect to see a rationale and description provided for Point of view/Assumptions in addition to the other elements even though this category was provided for you.

This assignment has three parts:

1. Pair off the Elements of Thought or the Elements of Reasoning based on the elements' similarities. To clarify, I am not asking you to compare the Eight Elements of Thought to the Eight Elements of Reasoning; I am asking you to pair off the eight components within one article or the other.

2. Provide a rationale as to why you chose to pair each set of elements together. I will only deduct minimal points for wrong choices if the provided rationales are valid.

3. Provide general descriptions as well as specific details for each of the original eight elements. To find the specifics regarding each element, refer to the articles in our reading for this week under "Lessons." You may have to roll your cursor over each element to see its details.

Example: 

 

 

 Description: 

Point of view is …

Assumptions are…

Point of view and assumptions were placed into one new category because …

This is what I turned in and below that you will see the additional information the professor is requesting:

Point of view is the way one looks into the matter and this changes the outcome of the situation. It includes what you are looking at and the way you are seeing it.

Assumptions are beliefs you take for granted. They usually operate at the subconscious or unconscious level of thought.

Inferences are interpretations or conclusions you come to. Inferring is what the mind does in figuring something out. Implications are claims or truths that logically follow from other claims or truths. Implications follow from thoughts. Consequences follow from actions.

Implications are inherent in your thoughts, whether you see them or not. The best thinkers think through the logical implications in a situation before acting..

Questions lay out the problem or issue and guide our thinking. When the question is vague, our thinking will lack clarity and distinctness. Information includes the facts, data, evidence, or experiences we use to figure things out. It does not necessarily imply accuracy or correctness.

Purpose is your goal, your objective, what you are trying to accomplish. We also use the term to include functions, motives, and intentions. Concepts are ideas, theories, laws, principles, or hypotheses we use in thinking to make sense of things.

***This is what the professor is requesting now and this is what I need complete***

“Student you have done a really good job of describing each element of thought in a detailed manner. However, I am not sure what your pairings are here because there were no rationales provided for the pairings, and I did not want to just assume what your pairings were from the way they were listed within the writing. Please just let me know for sure what your four pairings are, and please also submit the four rationales that should accompany the four pairings.”

# 3 Assignments:

Please review the "Clarifications on W5 Assignment" document under "Lessons" in Week Five for further information on this assignment.

The need for thinking and problem-solving skills dominates our lives. Individuals must analyze problems in the workplace, at school, as a parent, and in many other daily situations. You have an opportunity to practice your problem-solving skills through this assignment.

Assignment :  Select one problem from the following list or define your own problem. 

1. Design a new textbook for a psychology class, science class, etc.

2. Invent a new telephone.

3. Design a new suitcase.

4. Design new clothes for soldier/teacher/cook/student/etc.

5. Invent a new style for a video game.

6. Create a short story.

7. Design a new computer.

8. Invent a new way to protect computers from viruses.

9. Create a new type of credit card.

10. Work on solving a problem of your own choosing - a problem that is related to your major field of study.

Requirements:

· Remember that you don’t need to create anything physically. You may use images or just descriptions of your ideas.

· What is important for this assignment is your ability to generate ideas.

· Number your ideas 1 through 21.

· Generate 21 ideas about solving it, using the 21 Synectics steps listed below (Step 1--Subtract, Step 2--Repeat, Step 3--Combine, etc.). Please scroll down to find the 21 Synectics Steps.

Note: The 21 Synectics steps were developed by SynecticsWorld, inc.

Invention Labs & Workshops |  Synecticsworld. (n.d.). Synecticsworld. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from http://synecticsworld.com/invention-labs-workshops/

Assignment 4:

Moral Reasoning

The following is a true story - and it made national headlines several years ago. A Houston Texans football player and his wife got the call from a hospital in Dallas that his wife's mother (the football player's mother in law) was dying and only had a few minutes left to live. They hopped in the car and sped toward the hospital around midnight. Not many cars were on the road. As they were approaching the hospital, they ran a couple of red lights to get them there faster. A police officer saw this, and pulled them over as they were pulling into the hospital. The couple seeing the lights called ahead to the hospital to have a nurse meet them to substantiate their story that their mother was dying and only had a few minutes left.

When the couple jumped out of their car, the police officer drew his gun and told them to get back into the car. He walked over to them and they explained the situation. The police officer said he did not care, and they drove recklessly and broke the law. The nurse substantiated the claim, and the doctor came out as well and substantiated the claim. The police officer called for back-up and told everyone to stay in their car. He gave the football player a ticket. After the process, they ran inside but it was too late and the mother had died.

From your lectures and readings this week (go to Week Seven under "Lessons"), what type of moral reasoning was the police officer using (from Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning--preconventional, conventional, or postconventional)? What type of moral reasoning was the football player using (from Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning--preconventional, conventional, or postconventional)? What would you have done in this situation? Was the police officer in the right to hold them and do his job as a police officer to enforce the laws, despite a mitigating circumstance? Discuss the moral and ethical ramifications of the decisions and what you think you would have done as not only the police officer but the driver. All Grantham assignments must be formatted in APA format. This assignment should be at least 500 words long and directly integrate the readings and vocabulary from the readings at least once in your assignment.