Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2021 17:06:14 GMT
Module 1: Critical Thinking
Critical thinking draws on your ability to look at the whole picture while also paying attention to details and individual parts. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or false. It is an important component of any profession and critical to decision making skills.
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information gathered through observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication as a way to forming and/or changing beliefs and actions. Critical thinking employs not only logic but also broad intellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, significance and fairness.
Critical thinking can be seen as having several basic components:
• Intense curiosity;
• Commitment to solving the right problem;
• A set of information and belief generating and processing skills; and
• The habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior
Observation is a core element of critical thinking as is the data we gather that is the underpinning of the assumptions, beliefs that govern our actions and decisions. Faulty data leads to faulty decisions. The author Malcolm Gladwell is his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking suggests that we make many decisions based on information we process in microseconds. Critical thinking requires the deliberate data gathering skills that allows for more productive and thoughtful analysis and synthesis of what has been observed.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the Critical Thinking Module, you will be able to:
• Define the key components of critical thinking
• Understand why critical thinking is a foundational to solving problems, innovating, and leading transformation.
• Follow a “framework” to which you apply critical thinking
Critical thinking draws on your ability to look at the whole picture while also paying attention to details and individual parts. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or false. It is an important component of any profession and critical to decision making skills.
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information gathered through observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication as a way to forming and/or changing beliefs and actions. Critical thinking employs not only logic but also broad intellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, significance and fairness.
Critical thinking can be seen as having several basic components:
• Intense curiosity;
• Commitment to solving the right problem;
• A set of information and belief generating and processing skills; and
• The habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior
Observation is a core element of critical thinking as is the data we gather that is the underpinning of the assumptions, beliefs that govern our actions and decisions. Faulty data leads to faulty decisions. The author Malcolm Gladwell is his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking suggests that we make many decisions based on information we process in microseconds. Critical thinking requires the deliberate data gathering skills that allows for more productive and thoughtful analysis and synthesis of what has been observed.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the Critical Thinking Module, you will be able to:
• Define the key components of critical thinking
• Understand why critical thinking is a foundational to solving problems, innovating, and leading transformation.
• Follow a “framework” to which you apply critical thinking