Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Critical Thinking...

How important is critical thinking influence the deaf community?

7 comments:

Oscar Chacon said...

KUDOS!!

AslMan said...

How true it is. We should help one another and strengthen our thoughts. That's what makes all of us become leaders not bad huh!!

Chuck Baird said...

Indeed, that is what will become of us to the level of consciousness risen. The root deep in your heads are linked among us, yearning to find an answer. We are meant to get to a common ground thru DeafRead.com. It surely brings us the critcal thinking like you said. We all have different ways of observing and reasoning in our intellectual criteria based on our Deaf experiences.

DeafRead is not the first one doing this, it has been repeating in the many generations of the American Deaf History in the past. The Little Paper Family during the turn of 20th century is an example. But the ReadRead is the first of its kind thru internet, how fast and wide we are connected!

It is amazing how strong we are still, our common bond, helping one another for a better critical thinking. I like your analogy of match. The more fire, the better we see.

What the DeafRead can do for us? I keep saying, "Wow, it is phenomenal.

Vampbat said...

wow! we have common. i always have critical thinking a lot stuff. no matter if it's political or other stuff. soemtime make me thinking of math solve problem as sciense study figure how face is it. and how much often CAN BE HAPPENED make me thinking a lot as critical thinking. many of my teacher and students told me i am too smarts to figure out i told them i am not really smart but i have COMMON SENSE. till i saw ur videoclips make me thinking wow u got point about critical thinking that's what kind i am doing that. and start thinking of what people told me that i am smart to figures it out and solve problem. wow! they are right! thank for sharing and bring it up make people get thinking about it maybe we found our answer as i found ur answer what i look for my questions. THANK! so keep up with critical thinking i will sharing mine too! :D

Joshua "Vampbat" Womick

IamMine said...

aslPride, you are one of those people I enjoy listening through my eyes... your vlogs provoke thoughts, rather than emotional thoughts.

Too common, we react in emotion which sometimes results in disaster that doesn't really benefit anyone due to lack of solutions.

I also enjoy Oscar's observations as well! :)

I loved your light match analysis that turns into a fire!

I wanted to respond and share my inputs with your other vlogs but I had to spend time thinking and by the time I wanted to share, you made another vlog and another one...and darn my school, too.

Guess my critical thinking is too slow. ;)

I agree that DeafRead is a great group for critical thinking in ASL!! Amazing, eh?!

Keep it up because we need to show that emotions need to be dealt with first and THEN discuss the issues.

Many of us weren't taught that, especially in social gatherings.

Thank YOU for teaching me and that goes for others as well. :)

Keep the fire burnin'!

You knew this was coming, didn't you all....

A snippet of Pearl Jam's Do The Evolution song:

I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
It's evolution, baby!!!!!


:D

Rock on!!

IamMine said...

tsk tsk...I meant ANALOGY not analysis. :S

Yeah, pass me that book... ;)

Jt said...

I love this topic -- thanks for posting!


Check this out -- Shane Feldman made some excellent points regarding critical thinking and blogging within the deaf community:

(Last fifteen minutes of the video)
http://www.ccigally.info/node/24

And then, Shane summarized some of the points on his DeafDC.com blog:
http://www.deafdc.com/blog/shane-feldman/2007-02-05/my-vblogging-conference-presentation/

I will disclose that I am biased here, but Shane really did have some excellent points. For example, blogs (full of opinions) are not the same as newspapers (full of facts). The deaf community does not have many forms of "media" (like the hearing community), so deaf people rely on blogs more heavily for their "facts". Therefore, the onus is on us bloggers to raise the bar for credibility, *and* the deaf audience? Critical thinking, of course.