Critical Thinking and Technology

Critical thinking is a very key factor of education. It is so important in the process of studying, that every high school and college promote critical thinking and encourage the students to use critical thinking as much as possible in studying. Combine with the technology nowaday, critical thinking is becoming a very crucial aspect of life. Critical thinking is like a two headed-knife, it could damage the ability to do critical thinking but it also could make our critical thinking ability sharper. 

According to a research paper written by Tim van Gelder, a philosopher of the University of Melbourne, Australia (http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne01/pdf/papers/vangeldert.pdf), technology can have a possitive effect on the ability to think critically. To start the paper, Tim opens up with the a problem argument. He also stated that "Critical thinking is one of education’s most central goals and one of its most valued outcomes" and then, he talks about the cautions of being unable to think critically and why critical thinking is so important. In the main term, the author demonstrate out with numbers, datas, and through research that technology can somewhat improve and promote a person to think critical more, consider every possibility and option before making a decision.