Thinking Skills Workshop

Thinking Skills Workshop by professor Milan Pandya.

 This blog is response of my thinking Activity given by professor Dr. Dilip Barad sir, In this activity i have discussed about my two days learning experience of Thinking skills workshop.

Thinking Skills

On 13 to 14 August 2022 we had a guest lecture by milan Pandya sir. Milan Pandya is a Teacher, Trainer and Educator in the field of Critical, Creative and Design Thinking Skills, English Language Teaching, Communication Skills, Humanities and Social Sciences. With more than 12 years of teaching experience, Mr. Pandya has authored 02 books, presented and published a number of research papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has taught/trained in numerous Universities/Institutions training more than 30,000 people in Thinking Skills. He has been involved in developing courses and conducting workshops in Thinking Skills, Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Ethics & Soft Skills. 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.

   

 In this lecture first sir talked about critical thinking and Creative Thinking. Thinking Skills are life skills. Everyone is not able to perfect thinking skills to think differently, so sir , in a very effectively said the definition of thinking skills. Sir said about three thinking skills 

Logical  

Rational

Scientific 

Critical thinking is, Thinking about thinking, in order to improve thinking'. 

 And sir also said that we think so we note only improve our thoughts but also develop our personality.

Then sir  say about 'Context'

'Context is Everything'

"If something is true, what else  has to be true."

Then sir talked about Fact, the fact note changes because his identity is totally based on things so that's why fact can not be changed. Then also sir talked about Possible and Plausible. How possible and plausible are different from each other. Lastly, sir talked about Qunon Theory.

Some Examples of Thinking Skills

This first example is about the advertisement this advertisement is about lux soap in this advertisement heroine talk about the 3% prophet of money. But we know that she charged much money of this advertisement. she talked about 3 or 4 % prophet on this advertisement this all are the fake news.

In this example we have not find any wrong things but as we read the image we find some wrong things. This is an example of the popular serial Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. In this image the female protagonist is not able to wearing a sari in her own way hand but she able to create beautiful and perfect hair style her own hend how that is possible. So we find that, that is basic concept of thinking skills. 

This is the recent tweet by Satish Shah, Indian flag of 1942. If we know the history we realize that this flag was selected as the national flag after independence. But as a Film actor he is free to make that type of mistake and no one can tell him anything but also others follow him to his work but as a celebrity he also check the correct information and then tweets that type of important information for the nation. That is work on thinking skills that we find some wrong things easily.

Then sir gives some another example also like,  The book Discovery of India by Jawahar Lal Nehru and some movie example also like Joji movie and COCO.

"Your teacher might be wrong, Learn to think for yourself."

On the second day of the workshop 14th August sir came with the games in which we have to show our creativity and thinking power because sir said that critical thinking is always practice it because nobody born in critical thinker.

This is amazing thinking Activity i called because we start with simple question that how many categories we seen this image and then we find many categories and then connect the dots each other and find many interesting things like,

We find categories ( Food, Vegitables, clothes, spots, Money, electronics, religion,  etc)  

Books name: Home And The World, Gun Island.

Things that moves round : Grinder, World, Clock.

Things that move up to down : Rocket, Plane. 

Red colour: Apple, Slide, boll, car etc.

Movie name

Bollywood songs

Adam and Eve story 

Shakespeare's play : Hamlet, Macbeth.

Metaphor in literature.

'An apple of my eyes.'

Then sir also introduced some other activities to explain that seeing things in a way that others can not able to see is what called creativity. He show several pictures like brush, and Spectacles and told students to find all possible uses of that objects and students identify also all the object. Then sir told about the basic nature of critical thinking and his four important part.

Person

 Press (Environment)

 Process

 Product

Then last sir talked about one activity that is Thought experiments. That activity sir gives us to a one train situation and then he says about the situation. That activitys basic concept is how we help others person in his hyper situation and how we decide which person dies or not.Then other students ask the questions to sir and he said that how we find a solution this all the questions. Lastly our session ended with vote of thanks by the students. 

These two day's it was great days to us because we learnt lots of things from him and now I can say that I personally many differently understand all these things.

So the outcome of this workshop is that now I am able to understand the thinking Skills of anything. Thank you Dilip Barad sir. And Thank you Milan Pandya sir for this amazing session. It was the best learning experience for all the department students. 

Thank you