Category: Critical Thinking

To take any major or smaller step one should think emotional as well critical to balance life.

Critical Thinking sessions enabled me to make sense of why we act the way we do, and the place those approaches and behaviors stem from. While in some sense there was already some implicit understanding of it (or so I thought), these interactions allowed us to consciously connect the dots and put names on those feelings, especially biases.

On multiple occasions when we collaborated, it expanded my knowledge set and offered opportunities to acknowledge diverse view-points, often making me reflect on my own, and even alter them.

I had always thought of myself as an open-minded person, deliberately wanting to accommodate others’ beliefs duly, but these interactions also shed light on how one must also be pragmatic and not just let our prime emotions take the driver’s seat.

Initially, when we started the class I was not sure how I will be able to have serious discussions or think critically. However, as when we went further in the sessions there were a mix of intense and mild engagements, a mix of watching short videos, discussions, and reflections. Some of the discussions lead to a lot of perspectives which were different from what I thought. There was new learning and confirmation of what I already knew. The engagement where we were divided into groups, given topics to research and add in our perspectives in a PPT was really helpful. It also helped us understand what people in society thought about at large. We then also had to present our topics which lead to healthy discussion.  Movies were also included in the plan along with taking our suggestions as and when it was possible.
I would like to thank all the facilitators to be great listeners, facilitating our thinking, and asking critical questions. They also shared their experiences in order to help us understand or encourage us to do so. Since we attended this workshop, I am sure it will help us in many aspects of life if we go back to what we have learned and think about where we can implement it.

After attending Emotional Intelligence last year, this year Critical Thinking has expanded the knowledge horizon exponentially. While last year we focused a lot on well-being and care of feelings, of ours, others, this year it was all about questioning the existence, think what is shown/ presented…

Already as IB educators, we inculcate CT a lot in units but this time CT in normal life was thought-provoking. Thinking critically, thinking hard, and discussing with others have proven fruitful to change the perspective further. Thank you to all the facilitators.

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.