I'm tutroing in PHILO 1002 Logic & Reasoning this semester and one of our Moodle weblinks is to a company called AusThink who specialise in developing critical thinking tools. I thought that since the Philosphy programmme at UB has grown from strength to strength in terms of the service teaching now done with Psychology and Human Movement, that I'd pop this info up for general distribution. I think the programme has solid structural and visual merit in terms of information organisation. Particularly appealing to dyslexics too.
Local company AusThink (affiliated with The University of Melbourne) have developed an exciting looking software package for called Rationale: Argument Visualisation Software that assists in the maping out of argumentative essays and workss to exercise critical thinking skills in particular. Currently available for Windows only, AusThink offers a free seven day trial which is well worth the trouble.
I've included the official AusThink Rationale video above, but I've also tracked down a shorter video (below) that includes some testimonials from teaching staff as well as the programme's creator (a lecturer in critical thinking himself). Well worth having a look at these. It would be interesting to see if the University could get a site license for this programme. I'd be interested to hear what other staff and students think about this one.
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