Teaching Students to Think Critically in Our Information Technology Courses
Join Dr. Shelley Gaskin as she discusses encouraging critical thinking skills in the classroom as well as how one can go about developing assessments for coursework with the GRASPS model.
Dr. Shelley Gaskin, Pasadena City College
Teaching students to think critically and solve problems is a widely accepted goal in higher education. Definitions of critical thinking—and there are various definitions—basically come down to this: the process of having students examine an ill-defined or messy problem and then carefully apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired during the instructional process to analyze a problem and suggest a solution. Join Dr. Shelley Gaskin creator of the Pearson GO! Series for Microsoft Office 365, where she discusses a variety of topics encouraging critical thinking skills in the classroom as well as how one can go about developing assessments for coursework with the GRASPS model.
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About the speaker
Dr. Shelley Gaskin, Pasadena City College
Dr. Shelley Gaskin is the creator and Series Editor of, and an author for, the Pearson GO! Series for Microsoft Office 365. She is a professor in the Business Division at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Robert Morris College (Pennsylvania), a master’s degree in Business from Northern Illinois University, and a doctorate in Adult and Community Education from Ball State University (Indiana). Before joining Pasadena City College, she spent 12 years in the computer industry, where she was a systems analyst, sales representative, and director of Customer Education with Unisys Corporation. She also worked for Ernst & Young on the development of large systems applications for their clients. She has written and developed training materials for custom systems applications in both the public and private sector and has also written and edited numerous computer application textbooks.
