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Critical Thinking

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What is CriticalThinking?

OPEN EDU ON CRITICAL THINKING - Source

The aim of critical thinking is to try to maintain an objective position. When you think critically, you weigh up all sides of an argument and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. So, critical thinking entails: actively seeking all sides of an argument, testing the soundness of the claims made, as well as testing the soundness of the evidence used to support the claims.

Critical thinking is not:

  • restating a claim that has been made
  • describing an event
  • challenging peoples’ worth as you engage with their work
  • criticizing someone or what they do (which is made from a personal, judgemental position).

While CriticalAnalysis AnalyticalThinking requires you to examine ideas, evaluate them against what you already know and make decisions about their merit, CriticalReflection ()SyntheticThinking) requires you to synthesise different perspectives (whether from other people or literature) to help explain, justify or challenge what you have encountered in your own or other people’s practice.

BloomsTaxonomy | Bloom’s taxonomy can provide a useful way of conceptualising higher-order thinking and learning. The six intellectual domains...

Higher-order intellectual domains, descriptions and associated keywords

Knowledge | Exhibit memory of previously learned material by recalling information, fundamental facts and terms, as well as discovery, through observing and locating. // MyNote: Generally this is better defined as "Information" at least by myself and as referenced in Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organizational Effectiveness.

Who?

What?

Find

Define

Recall

Comprehension | Demonstrate Understanding of facts and ideas by organising, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptors and stating main ideas.

Compare

Contrast

Explain

Discuss

Application Solve problems in new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different or new way. // a type of Understanding

Plan

Build

Experiment

Design

Solve

Interview

Analysis Examine and break information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalisations. AnalyticalThinking

Dissect

Examine

Infer

Compare

Contrast

Synthesis - Compile information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions. SyntheticThinking

Compose

Construct

Create

Design

Develop

Theorise

Elaborate

Formulate

Evaluation This is also denoted as ‘critical evaluation’, often used to emphasize the depth of evaluation required. You will be required to present and defend opinions by making judgements about information, the validity of ideas or quality of work based on a set of criteria. Also SyntheticThinking - Wisdom

Compare

Justify

Prove

Disprove

Deduct

See also: SyntheticThinking AnalyticalThinking the difference between synthetic thinking & analytical thinking

Tags:: Idea Development big-ideas

MyThought - CriticalThinking is a (the?) Process of evaluating and creating information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom from Data. Following this process helps you create big-ideas and is an effective process of Idea-Development. Critical thinkings 'output' is Understanding and is a type of SyntheticThinking . The information that is inputted (through fact-finding & the knowledge we already have) are the bits of data that AnalyticalThinking is concerned with.

In a way CriticalThinking a process of first 'doing' AnalyticalThinking then 'doing. SyntheticThinking

AnalyticalThinking is concerned with identifying differences while SyntheticThinking is about establishing similarities.

AnalyticalThinking allows us to comprehend the parts of the situations while SyntheticThinking enables us to understand how they work together.

Analytical: different car parts and how they are formed & work individually. A collection of wikipedia entries of the different car parts.

Synthetic: How different car parts work together to move the car, their unique relationships, how they help or impede one another, the implications of one not working as well as another, the shared histories of development. A history book on the stages of development of automobiles

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