Thinking skills workshop by- professor Milan Pandya.
This Two day workshop was organised by our department of english. In the workshop we learned so many things. In this workshop we learn how to think critically in situations when you have to make a decision on the spot. Professor Milan Pandya is a teacher ,trainer and educator in the field of thinking skills, critical, creative, and design thinking, English language teaching and communication skills.
This workshop started on 13th august. On a First day of the workshop, Dr.dilp barad sir introduced the professor. Milan pandya. After that I gave him a bouquet and welcomed prof.milan pandya at our department. I really like one line from dilip sir’s brief introduction. This lines are like this,
“ a stupidest question can bring the smartest answer”
This line of sir helped us a lot during the whole workshop.
DAY-1:
On the first day of the workshop Milan sir told us that he also came here in 2016. After that he fist asked us, ``Do you know about socrates? We all know about plato and aristotle and after he started with this point:
1.logical thinking
2.rational thinking
3.scientific thinking
These three pillars of critical thinking. He said that thinking is a live skill. In contemporary times everyone has to know at least one skill in their life. After that sir asked a question about, “what is the meaning of the word ‘critical thinking’. ” after he define critical thinking by given a definition of his own.
“ thinking about thinking in order to improve thinking”
In this definition he emphasised on thinking by using the word thinking thrice. He further explained that why we are different from other species is because we have thinking abilities. Also he said that thinking is the soul of our body.he said that humans became rational animals by their thinking skills.
Further he gave justification of his words by providing six major examples. He explained that context is everything.
I found this video on youtube. It is about, “what is critical thinking?”
after that he define one more thing is,
"if something is true what else has to be true in that "
in this statement he said that if something is true than what else has to be true like he gave certain examples of katrina kaif and actor satish shah.In class we practiced some lighter examples of critical thinking
one more funny example of observation is starplus TV serial yeh hai mohabbatein one picture from that:
look at this picture that lady character she has facture in her hand and it is obvious that she can wear sari by her own. and look at this picture carefully in this her makeup and hairstyle is done perfectly. and when we see this picture in critical way we can see that if her hand is fractured how can she wear that flawless makeup and pretty hairstyle?.
further he talk about belief and conspiracy theory:
"belief is important part of conspiracy theory"
by all this pictures sir explained that always be a critic.for that we need to search for the truth.
after this conspiracy theory he presented a quote by Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tazu.
"your teacher might be wrong. learn to think for yourself "
be clear about "what do you want?" and "why do you want?"
"be clear about yourself "
in the end of the first day he told us to be clear about three things :
1.writing
2.marketing
3.thinking.
“Man is the Storytelling Animal, and that in stories are his identity, his meaning, and his lifeblood.” -Salman Rushdie ( Luka and the fire of Like)
DAY-2:
the second day was all about thought experiments. man is rational animal but we can not say that man is born with rationality,for that cultivation training plays a vital role.
"man has capacity to be a rational animal."
critical and creative thinkers are not born thinkers, they go through a thinking process every time and train their mind to think.
One might feel that question is a way of thinking and contracts wh idea of training a mind to think because infants keep on questioning. But it is to be understood that asking questions doesn't mean that one is a critical thinker. Choice of question and arising to right question at a right time and place is important.
in this picture this picture did not have any type of creative . so we can say that this picture is not work of art.it does not add any value in our life. this picture have no use.
after this to test our creative power of our mind, sir gave us picture , and we had to categorized things.
it is called Aristotelian classification of things.
We had to make a category in which at least two items from the image can be considered.
you can make categories and put at least two items in it for example:
Patience is necessary to be creative, as physique can be made with patience in the training. Abstract thinking is not at all an easy task.
at the last part of the workshop, we had very wonderful rather difficult activities. in this, we got two problematic situations.in that situation we can not choose any one option to save lives of people and also we do not have choice to save all people we have to put one person's life in danger. so we all are in dilemma what to do or what not to do?
after that i came to know that when sir told us to read between the lines.now in 21st century we have to observe behind the lines.
our workshop is ended on good notes and we learn so many new things in this workshop. in last we have feedback and vote for thanking sir for this marvellous experience.
thank Barad sir and Milan sir for this wonderful workshop and worthy weekend. attending this fun and knowledgeable workshop was truly enjoyable.
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