236. Happy Book Birthday: Becoming a Critical Thinker by Julie Bogart!
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 904 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Hooray! Today’s the publication day of my (Julie’s) new workbook, “Becoming a Critical Thinker.”
If you’re a longtime listener of this podcast, you know that I’m pretty strict about workbooks. They should lead a child to mastery, to embodiment, to knowing the content for themselves.
That’s the approach I took to creating this workbook. I’ve reduced each of the activities to one key point. I've written just enough text for students to get that idea and then to practice it in the activity.
I designed this workbook to help students grow as critical thinkers by turning the focus to their own thoughts. Why do they believe what they believe? What flaws can they notice in their own thinking? How do they reach conclusions?
I dive into all this in-depth in today’s episode. Thank you for joining me on this special day!
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- Check out the new “Becoming a Critical Thinker” workbook
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| 1:04.0 | Wahoo! |
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| 1:10.0 | Becoming a critical thinker is the third offering I have for you that has been traditionally |
| 1:16.1 | published. |
| 1:17.4 | My publisher, Tarture Parrygy, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House, |
| 1:23.0 | asked me to write this book a few years ago, |
| 1:26.0 | and my initial reaction to the request was, |
| 1:29.0 | but wait, you want me to write a workbook, |
| 1:32.0 | a workbook to go with raising critical |
| 1:34.5 | thinkers. Now it seems like a great idea. People do tend to like workbooks, but if |
| 1:40.2 | you've been around me and Brave Rider, my company that is nearly 25 years old, |
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