Critical thinking presentation for students
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Critical thinking involves engaging in reflective and independent thinking to understand logical connections between ideas, identify and evaluate arguments, and solve problems systematically. It includes the ability to detect inconsistencies, reflect on one's own beliefs and values, and identify what is relevant and important. There are 6 steps to critical thought: 1) knowledge acquisition, 2) comprehension, 3) application, 4) analysis, 5) synthesis, and 6) evaluation. The steps build upon each other from basic recall to putting ideas together creatively and finally making judgments.
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- 1. Critical Thinking ‘The art of taking charge of your mind’
- 2. What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following : • understand the logical connections between ideas • identify, construct and evaluate arguments • detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning • solve problems systematically • identify the relevance and importance of ideas • reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values
- 3. 6 Steps to Critical Thought
- 4. Step 1: Knowledge The basic level of acquisition of knowledge requires the student to be able to exhibit memory of previously learned material by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers. Keywords: Define, list, describe, identify, show, name, quote
- 5. Step 2: Comprehension Comprehension means students understanding the material read, heard or seen. In comprehending, you make the new knowledge that you have acquired your own by relating it to what you already know. Keywords: Explain, describe, summarise, differentiate, discuss, interpret
- 6. Step 3: Application Application requires that you know what you have read, heard, or seen, that you comprehend it, and that you carry out some task to apply what you comprehend to an actual situation. Keywords: Illustrate, Use the information, Apply, Demonstrate, Show, Solve, Classify, Discover
- 7. Step 4: Analysis Analysis involves breaking what you read or hear into its component parts, in order to make clear how the ideas are ordered, related, or connected to other ideas. Analysis deals with both form and content to improve your critical thinking. Keywords: Breakdown, distinguish, infer, prioritise, order, justify, classify, arrange, divide
- 8. Step 5: Synthesis Synthesis involves the ability to put together the parts you analysed with other information to create something original. Keywords: Integrate, modify, rearrange, substitute, plan, create, design, invent, incorporate
- 9. Step 6: Evaluation Evaluation occurs once we have understood and analysed what is said or written and the reasons offered to support it. Then we can appraise this information in order to decide whether you can give or withhold belief, and whether or not to take a particular action Keywords: Decide, rank, test, measure, recommend, support, conclude, compare, appraise, defend
Editor's Notes
- Become a learned person by acquiring knowledge and pursuing topics that interest you. Read great books on interesting subjects that will give you a better understanding of the world, logic, and science.
- The better you are involved with the information, the better you will comprehend it. As always, the primary test of whether you have comprehended something is whether you can put what you have read or heard into your own words. Remember that comprehending something implies that you can go beyond merely parroting the material back but instead that you can give the material your own significance. A key factor in becoming a master of any skill is to be able to link different and seemingly unconnected pieces of information, and putting them together to build new ideas. Comprehension is an understanding of the subject matter as apposed to knowing it.
- Its not an option to learn what you should do, but never get down to applying it to real life situations. Apply what you know and enjoy the results.
- Any difficult or seemingly complex subject matter or story has components that can be dissected to allow for a better understanding of what has happened. Just like a news story told from different news channels with different motives, learn to dissect and understand what is happening, by looking at the story as small segments of a larger picture.
- Never put evaluation ahead of the other steps in critical thinking steps; otherwise, you will be guilty of a “rush to judgement.” When emotion substitutes for reasons, evaluation incorrectly precedes analysis.