Find me on Twitter at, with related discussions in my book. We’ve got work to do.Ĭare to chat about it? Join me and a few deep thinkers for #orgdna Twitter Chat, 3rd Mondays at 9pm ET. Thinking about thinking? Learning how we learn? The 21st century has raised the bar on us. Long journeys start with a plan, so we’ll develop and refine one in this space, right here on Medium. Let’s start a journey to expand our critical thinking. As we explore them further, new ideas and relationships will come into view. These areas of focus are not of equal weight or impact. Where do we start when there is no clear starting point? These questions bring to the surface two broader challenges: How do we keep track of the world in our head? How can we explain our understanding to others? What can we easily recognize and relate to? How do we relate to the subject matter? Is this about me, or someone else? Let’s start by unpacking these building blocks: We need new skills, applying critical thinking at new levels, with a vastly improved ability to discern fact from opinion. Do we understand what’s happening in the news? Is the news still news? Our children, known as digital natives, are computer savvy as toddlers. These topics are like raw material, building blocks for those who want to better understand the complexities of the modern world. I see several significant areas that impact the potential of 21st century thinkers. In the 80's, they called it sense making. In the study of the learning process, there’s a specific point of recognition that’s all important, that moment when the mystery is solved. But it’s also teaching us how the mind learns and responds. To me, i t's been a fascinating journey, yielding things like browsers, icons and the iconic mouse itself. At many levels, the web sparked new possibilities. More recently, with the appearance of computers in the 1980's and the Internet soon after, there’s been increased focus on how people respond to new stimuli. But there’s been a long-running debate among scholars of science and philosophy over what we can know, and challenging our confidence in knowing it.Īll the while, we’ve been losing our edge. We’ve learned to ask better questions, I’ll concede. Our search for deeper understanding dates back to the Greeks. The need for critical thinking is not new.
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