but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."--Lewis Carroll
Mission: Critical is an interactive tutorial for critical thinking, in which you will be introduced to basic concepts through sets of instructions and exercises. Formal instructional materials have been kept to a minimum, in order to take advantage of Mission: Critical's interactive format. Through immediate reinforcement for right and wrong answers to a series of increasingly complex exercises, you will begin to utilize the essential tools of intellectual analysis.
Mission: Critical has gone through several major revisions since it first came online in January, 1996. Below are three links: to the original version (1996-1998), to the first version as an online course (1998-99), and to the current version (1999-2000). Though the original is probably the most accessible for the casual user, from its Main Menu, it has not benefited from some of the revisions and additions of subsequent iterations.
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For a brief overview of Mission: Critical, you are invited to take a tour, (originally constructed for the 1998 GII Awards). You may also do a keyword search of the tutorial sections.
We are very interested in receiving your reactions, criticisms, and suggestions, and hope to incorporate as many of these as possible in future revisions of the design and content of Mission: Critical. To contact Mission: Critical, please use the Contact Mission Control link at the bottom of this and other pages.
Mission: Critical supports the concept of cooperative
development of educational resources on the Web. We are interested in
creating reciprocal links between this and other critical thinking web
pages, either on our links page (in the
Re: Sources section) or,
if suitable, internally within Mission: Critical itself. Please
contact Mission Control for further
information.
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