What If No One Cared
Last week something happened where I took a moment and decided that I would react to what was happening in a completely not natural to me way as a thought experiment. I am starting this week's blog with the story of what happened and will then give some examples of reactions I received when I told others this story and asked them what they would do. I'm sharing this story because I think it is a good example of a critical thinking scenario and how we can start conversations with learners about the importance of critical thinking, the impact of different choices, and why some folk make the choices they do. Last week I was on my way home from work on the city bus about 4 stops from my house when the situation I will describe happened. The bus was relatively full for that time in the afternoon, and the passengers were mainly folk and families who were coming home with shopping carts and bags of groceries because it was Thursday and for a lot of folk that is pay day, the day they c...