Thinking Skills Lecture (7) LS120 PDF

By the end of this lecture, students will be able to: Thinking: “is an organized and controlled mental activity that helps you solve problems, make decisions, and understand ideas” Thinking skills: knowledge, dispositions, and cognitive and metacognitive operations. Definitions Cognition: The mental...

By the end of this lecture, students will be able to: Thinking: “is an organized and controlled mental activity that helps you solve problems, make decisions, and understand ideas” Thinking skills: knowledge, dispositions, and cognitive and metacognitive operations. Definitions Cognition: The mental operations involved in thinking; the biological/neurological processes of the brain that facilitate thinking. (.‫العصبية للدماغ التي تسهل التفكير‬/‫ العمليات العقلية التي يقوم بها التفكير؛ العمليات البيولوجية‬:‫)اإلدراك‬ Metacognition: The process of planning, assessing, and monitoring one's own thinking; the highpoint of mental functioning. (.‫ قمة األداء العقلي‬.‫ عملية تخطيط وتقييم ومراقبة تفكير الفرد‬:‫)ما وراء المعرفة‬ Definitions Creative thinking: “ 1) 2) 3) 4) Fluency (generating many ideas), (‫)الطالقة‬ Flexibility (shifting perspective easily), (‫)المرونة‬ Originality (considering of something new), (‫)األصالة‬ Elaboration (building on other ideas). (‫)التفصيل‬       Definitions Critical thinking: “problem solving” Critical thinkers:  Pretend to know more than they do.  Get annoyed by problems.  Judge on first impressions.  Focus on their own opinions.  Look only for ideas like their own.  Are guided by feelings rather than thoughts.  Claim that thinking gives them a headache.  Are impatient. 1. Be willing to plan: habit of planning. 2. Be flexible: Develop a Consider new solutions for old problems. 3. Creative thinking: “out of the box” 4. Be persistent: Good thinking is a hard work. 5. Be willing to self-correct: went wrong and learn from your mistakes. Figure out what Question: Purpose: Point of View: Information: Concepts: Assumptions: Inferences: Consequences: the ability to ask on- target questions. is it because you?      When you don’t ask questions, you sacrifice your education.  If you don’t take risks, you won’t get the maximum benefit in developing your mind.  unwelcome o o o o Don’t be frightened What is an opinion? but not both. When evaluating an opinion, you have three choices: What is an Argument? begin with evidences and lead to a conclusion       Future employers value your ability to perform the critical thinking skills:       1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Thank you Dr. Halima Buni