[thinkARGUMENTS] is basically a critical thinking course developed by folks out of Harvard that you can build into your own course as a unit. What is phenomenal in my mind is that they've used technology in exactly the right way, given the educational process, because in order to learn critical thinking, you need to practice extensively and you need immediate feedback, and you need to do it on your own over and over and over... It's a mastery-based system the students go through.

“I noticed at the start of the semester that a number of students were butting heads. Politics is of course a contentious topic... As the semester progressed, I noticed that this happened less and less, and I noticed that the students were being more productive in their disagreement. Instead of frustration and blank stares, I saw my students giving and taking reasons…. [thinkARGUMENTS] didn't just teach my students some basic critical thinking skills. By implementing the skills in class and integrating them into my in class instruction, HWA helped make them more charitable, more fair-minded, better at evaluating not only the positions of others but their own positions as well. As someone who has struggled to teach critical thinking in my classes, this course was a godsend.”