Critical Thinking 00: Asking Good Questions

Small Group, Due: 2025 Sep 16, 11:59pm

This critical thinking assignment is designed to encourage you to understand and apply a skill to different areas of your life. You are to work in a group of two or three.

You will have your own fork of a repo with a single readme.md file. Simply edit this file. Only one person in your group is required to submit anything. Just be sure that all names are included in the readme.md.

Requirements

In a group of two or three:

• Write a response to each of the following points.

  1. Find a Bible passage where a character either uses this critical thinking skill properly (positive example) or does not use this skill at a detriment (negative example). Provide the context for the situation and explain how your example meets the requirements above.

  2. Explain a situation in the recent past where one in your group or someone you know used this skill to solve a computer science related problem in a positive way.

  3. Explain a situation in the recent past where one in your group or someone you know used this skill to solve a "real life" problem (not related to computer science) in a positive way.

• For each point above, include and clearly indicate the good question that was asked (positive example) or the good question that should have been asked (negative example). One way to clearly indicate is to highlight the question by using alerts. See Tips below for an example.

• For each point above, include and clearly indicate which hats are worn. See Tips below for a review.

• Discuss what you gained by going through this exercise. I'm leaving this open-ended, but I do expect your group to provide a thoughtful response. Note: you can always learn something, even when doing something you've done a million times before.

• Include a list of group members at the top of your submission.

Full credit will go to responses that use good grammar, are well thought out, and construct an argument using sufficient evidence. I have no hard rule on length; use as many words as necessary and no more.

Remember: your job is to convince me that you know what you are talking about!

Tips  #

Remember, Good Questions often start with the following openers.

Also, Good Questions often force you to wear multiple hats.🧢

One simple way to indicate clearly the good question is to use an alert. For example, the snippet below will render similarly to the following figure.

> [!note] Good Question
> The question Abraham should have asked was "...".

You do not need to clone your fork. Instead, you can edit the readme.md file directly in the browser by clicking on the readme.md file, click the blue Edit button at the top, then click Edit single file.

Submission

Once you have completed the assignment requirements, simply stage, commit, and push your changes to the CSE GitLab. Note: you do not need to do these if you edit through the browser.

Do NOT submit anything to the course Brightspace page.

Grading Rubric