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Building Critical Thinking One Article at a Time

As entry and mid-level managers, students graduating from college must understand how to track current trends and issues pertaining to their field. A learning activity incorporating knowledge mapping was designed to teach a simple method of tracking trends and to promote the development of higher order thinking skills necessary to successfully respond to these trends. The activity, which can be adapted to many different topics within the field of recreation, taught the transferable skills of data collection, synthesis, and application along with the content skill of understanding trends and issues within the recreation field.