This week, there were three groups presenting about the particular topics in chapter one. The first topic is ‘Introduction to Critical Thinking’. Critical thinking is the general term given to a wide range of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions needed to effectively identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments and truth claims. In my point of view, critical thinking is based on our own schemata which mean the background knowledge. We can evaluate ideas and information by our own selves. It does not in position right or wrong, it only matters on the ideas which logically accepted.
There are many critical thinking standards which are clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, consistency, logical correctness, completeness and fairness. For clarity, i think we need to put ourselves into the situation. We need to have clear concept on our goals and priorities based on our abilities and clear understandings on the problems and opportunities we face. About precision, we need to think precisely about the reasons why we commenting on something. We have to seek the precision in order to get the truth about something like a detective in Crime Scene Investigation, Numbers and many more. We move to the next standards, accuracy which we need to have the ability to do something in an exact way without making a mistake. So we need true information in order to make a right decision. For relevance, we need to directly relate to the subject or problem being discussed. We have to ensure that we always in the right track. The next one is consistency. We need to believe in logic and need to love truth and detest falsehood. This is followed by logical correctness. We need to have an accurate and well supported beliefs and we need to provide the reasons for choose something. Next is completeness. To be a critical thinkers, we need to look all the up and down which means from every angles possible thoroughly. The last one is fairness. The basic thing in someone character is fair-minded which can make us the perfect critical thinkers.
One of the benefits of critical thinking is critical thinking in the classroom. Students can learn many skills that can improve their academic performance. Another benefit is critical thinking in the workplace. The quick learners can solve the problems, think creatively and many more. They are generalised thinking and have a problem-solving skills. The last one is critical thinking in life. There are three ways of the value of critical thinking in life. It can avoid us from making the foolish personal decision by teaching us to think about important of life decisions more carefully.
There are various kinds of barriers to critical thinking. One of it is egocentrism which mean the tendency to see reality as centered on oneself, selfish. Next is sociocentrism, is the group-centered thinking. They just focus on the group itself without anyone else. After that is the unwarranted assumptions and stereotypes. This means the wrong assumptions being made because there is no evidence or proof. Then, relativistic thinking which means the view and truth being made based on our own moral and realistic thinking. The last one is wishful thinking. Think something is good can bring us more joy and bliss.
The last topic is the characteristics of a critical thinker. The most dominant characteristics for me for critical thinker are they should understand the value of critical thinking, both to individuals and to society as a whole. So as a result, they find it easy to relate the information as a whole and it becomes perfect.
Miss wani asked us to form a group of four and discuss about ‘Battling the Bullies’ and evaluate it based on the ten elements of critical thinking.
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