Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Critical Thinking Summary


Critical thinking means that person’s thoughts are limitless. It also means that the person thinks about things deeply and has the ability to give feedback for different issues such as mathematical problems and puzzles.

It begins when someone thinks about a process deeply. For example, if someone wants to know the process of something such as how the elevator is working or how the car is moving, we could say that he or she is a critical thinker. Critical thinkers also think about what would happen to a device if we took out some part of it. They also think about the reasons of why things happen such as rain.

Critical thinkers always examine their own thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, and points of view and compare them against facts. They also listen to negotiation and ideas of other people carefully, and that enables them to give feedback and suspend judgment before making any kind of decision. When critical thinkers want to tell someone about their beliefs, they collect the evidence in order to be able to support the belief or to reject information that is incorrect or irrelevant.

According to Bloom, there are six categories for the levels of thinking. Starting from the most complex to the simplest, the first one is evaluation. It involves a lot of different things such as critiquing, rating and forming opinions. The second one is synthesis. It includes redesigning, recreating and putting things back together in a different way. The third one is analysis, which means to examine an opinion or an idea. The fourth one is application, which consists of using knowledge and comprehension and solving problems. The fifth one is comprehension, that is understanding, paraphrasing, and interpreting. The last one is knowledge which is consists of many things such as naming, recognizing, identifying and recalling.

There are several advantages of critical thinking which could be very important to us. The First benefit is that our mind will be able to comprehend a massive quantity of ideas. The second advantage is that we will be able to connect between different ideas and we may invent something new. The last benefit is that people will think of things reasonably.

To conclude, a lot of people can be considered as critical thinkers, such as parents, doctors, lawyers, judge and teachers. If you want to be a critical thinker, you should be interested in finding new solutions for different issues and you should have the ability to examine things. You should also become a good observer in order to understand processes.

3 comments:

Clown said...

nice criticle thinking mate ^^ .. u could never do better

salem said...

nice man.

Mohamed Abdulqader said...

Thanks clown and salem for your comments.