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Employers increasingly demand graduates with not only subject matter competency, but also critical thinking and higher-order learning ability.

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5 : to consider for some time : ponder <I'm still thinking it over.

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Integration of technology and thinking skills through problem-based learning (PBL) is supported as an approach to science by standards such as the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) the Benchmarks for Science Literacy (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993) and a recent report on K-8 science education (National Research Council, 2007).

CoRT thinking skills guide PBL science

One way of thinking about the future is to obsessively try to live longer and think about how we can [improve] the world that we want to inhabit.

Who's afraid of human enhancement? A reason debate on the promise, perils, and ethics of human biotechnology

A compelling example of the power of point of view is the budding movement in financial services to embrace Enterprise Risk Management, which focuses on thinking about, measuring and managing a firm's overall combination of risks and returns.

The power of point of view: truly innovative ideas consist of thinking about familiar things in unfamiliar ways, but how can one distinguish really good ideas from those that are mere gimmicks?

If someone would ask us what we were thinking about when we were playing, we might very well have difficulty answering without embarrassment.

What do you think about when you play?

So much time in those dark theaters, not wanting to go out into the light, thinking the world was a bit cold and strange and lonely.

Master class with Barbra: fresh from recording one of her best albums ever, Barbra Streisand talks candidly about loving the movies, appreciating her gay fans, and most of all, making music

Baraka: Because, I thought, in my own kind of contradictory thinking, that it was "hell.

Amiri Baraka analyzes how he writes

The main thinking was northeastern Ontario as opposed to municipal issues.

The who's who in smart growth

It's a positive sign when people start saying "what if" because then you know that they have been thinking about it and they are bringing it up to the forefront.

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The basic problem, to be elaborated in many variants in post-Kantian aesthetics, is instead to question how thinking itself becomes "sensible"--something we can see, sense, touch, feel, something that "affects" us.