Category: Critical Thinking

Critical thinking helps in solving problems in a systematic way than just relying on the bais. I have learned that it is important to frame the right question before your question. So asking the right question, identifying the problem, analyzing, evaluating, and then making a decision will be a conscious choice from now on. Thank you so much Heta ma’am and Suchi ma’am for making the workshop interesting and fun.

We learned that Critical thinking involves asking questions, defining a problem, examining evidence, analyzing assumptions and biases, avoiding emotional reasoning.Critical thinking skills allows you to examine the information and classify what’s more valuable and what’s less. Then we learned about implicit bias. Implicit bias is also known as unconscious bias.these biases come from our surrounding people, our experiences, our culture, etc.We understood that we should be aware of the reasons for these biases and should take decisions after critical thinking.

Critical Thinking-

Today’s session was started with the topic ‘Women smile more than men’. A video was shown to understand the different perspectives about it. Then a movie was shown to understand implicit biases which we all have. The movie helped us to get aware of our biases which maybe we are not aware of. All these biases come from our surrounding people, our experiences, our culture, etc.

We understood that we should be aware of the reasons for these biases and should take decisions after critical thinking. Steps of scientific methodologies will also help us while raising questions. first of all, we should be aware of what do we want to know and then frame a good question. After it, research and evidence should be there to prove our point of view. Article reading on Manipulative Advertisements was read and discussed with examples. Six common Manipulative Advertising tactics like; Price, Promotion, Fear, Aspirations, Peer Pressure, and Novelty were to understand how Advertisements attract customers.

The sessions were helpful to learn and open our minds in all situations.

 

 

In session had activities which included critical thinking, where in the group the members had to think critically about how we get influenced by misleading advertisements and how it affects our buying decision.We also discussed six common manipulative advertisement tactics. The movie was also very interesting which made us think critically.

Session makes me think on some points critically.

Do we think critically without emotion?

Do we become problem solvers?

Do we think of our own bias when we look at something or some situation?

आज manipulative tactics और implicit bias के बारे में जाना कि कैसे जीवन में निर्णय लेने से पहले इनके बारे में जानना कितना आवश्यक है | जीवन में साहसिक बनकर और Scientific method के द्वारा अपने विचार रखना और प्रश्न पूछना बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है |

 

ફાઉન્ટેનહેડ શાળાની કાર્યશાળામાંથી જીવનની સાતત્યતા માટેની પરિપક્વતા મળી ગઈ, 

 

જીવનના બધા પહેલુઓને જટિલ વિચારશૈલીથી વિચારવાની એક સૂઝ મળી,

 

વિચારને પણ એક વાર વિવચારવું પડે એવી એક સોચ મળી ગઈ,

 

ઘણા પૂર્વગ્રહો (Biases) ના વમળોને સમજવાની અદ્ભૂત તક મળી ગઈ,

 

જટિલ વિચારથી  (Biases) ના “ખાડાને”(potholes) ઓળખવાની કળા મળી ગઈ.

I am glad that I got this opportunity to understand these terms in the context of our society and country. Also, I could analyze how implicit basis works when it comes to our real life. Overall, the session was insightful with the evaluation of an issue.