Thinking Skill Workshop

 Hello Everyone!!

I am Hinaba Sarvaiya Student of The Department of English, MK Bhavnagar University. In This dept. organised two- Day ‘Thinking Skills Workshop’ on 13/14 August 2022 by Prof. Milan Pandya.

Milan Pandya is a teacher, trainer and educator in the field of Thinking Skills i.e. Critical, Creative and Design Thinking, English Language Teaching & Communication Skills. With more than 12 years of teaching experience, Mr. Pandya has authored 02 books, and presented and published a number of research papers in national and international conferences and journals. Mr. Pandya has BA & MA in English Literature, M.Phil in English Language Teaching (ELT) & his Ph.D involves study into Online Teaching, Communicative Competence & Critical Thinking. He currently holds a position of Vice President of Advancement at Critical Thinking Solutions company in Ontario, Canada, and teaches at multiple colleges such as Conestoga and Sheridan college in Ontario, Canada.

This blog deals with the learning outcome of this two- day Thinking skills workshop.

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the tranning of the mind to think"

This quote is given by Albert Einstein and he says that the learning fact is important but we have to train our mind to think. We are social animals and also have brains. We have to think about anything. Humans have to be different from animals because of their Thinking ability. And in this two day workshop to develop our Thinking Skill. 

Thinking is based on critical and creative and Design think and our workshop focused on creative and critical thinking process.

What is Critical thinking?

Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. The basic way to think critically like Logical, Retinol and Scientific thinking. So many definition fined to critical thinking and sir given very interested statement like,

“Thinking about thinking in order to improve thinking.”

Thinking is important. Thinking abilities to differences between human beings. Is a best gift to humans to think about in their own way whatever he/she see to Surrounding. We have to think freely or but we have to think every time or everywhere. It means 24 hour our mind thinks about but here we do not talk about this type of thinking but we have thoughts like Logical, Rational or Scientific. Human beings are also animals, a social animal and its thinking capacity makes it different from other living beings. Humans are rational animals, along with being social, our whole life depends on thinking.

Look at this image. Do you find something fishy?

Yes, this is an image from a popular serial ‘Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’. What do you find? Female protagonist’s hand is fractured and so male protagonist is helping her to drape a saree. But how could she do a flawless make and hairstyle on her own! This is critical insight. Question everything and everywhere.

Milan sir gave us a wonderful mantra which would help us to think, criticize and lead us to read absence. “If something is true what else has to be true with in.”

If we have any kind of information through any group that time we have to be careful about spreading fate news. Cross checking is important. Here’s a tweet by Shraddha Kapoor for which she was trolled a lot, she shared this image talking about Indian soldiers and later came to know that the place is not Siachen and also these are not Indian soldiers but Russian Soldiers. 

One intrested image here to find a category. 

We had to make a category in which at least two items from the image can be considered.

Various categories find up like Home, Kitchen reletive equipment, furnitures, music instrument, Books, Weapons, Vegitable, Vehicle, electric equipment  etc but important is how one can, you can look at things differently, how creative you are. Some of the best categories popped up in the class were

Shakespeare’s tragedy- hamlet, Macbeth, Paradise Lost

Books- gun island, home and the world, great Gatsby, Frankenstein Below with the Ship

Proverbs- time is money,  pen is mightier than sword,

Things associated with apple- Adam eve story, MacBook

Metaphor in literature- axe, painting plate

Quotes- Abdul Kalam on Pizza, today is a present

Bollywood songs

LGBTQ- color plate, no gender of robot

Movie names

Phallocentric

Current news, on Salman Rushdie- a book, fatva, being stabbed.

So many activities do in this workshop.  Sir given  many situations and how we have to solved the problem or think about in difficult situations through mathematics types of questions. And how to able to solved it. It is a thought experiment. 

Outcome:-

In this two day workshop thinking skill we have to be capable of thinking in different ways. Creativity is developed or Adopted skill to what to see others and you see not seen by others. Creativity based on Person, Process, product and press. Creativity and critical thinking make a decision maker. It is very helpful and intresting session for us. 

This is a group photos. We have very glad to attend this interesting lecture. I am very thankful for Dr. Dilip barad sir and also thanks to Prof. Milan Pandya sir taken to lecture on Thinking Skill. 

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