What is Critical Thinking?

Text: Critical thinking is all about asking questions. The right questions. Questions that help you assess both the meaning and the significance of claims and arguments. Building these skills and applying them in your life makes it easier for you to assess evidence, evaluate arguments and adapt your thinking and stay switched on and engaged in different situations. Critical thinking involves stepping back from a situation to enable you to see all the angles before making judgements or making decisions. It means identifying the key points, analysing the source of information, weighing up different types of evidence, just as a judge and jury would do in a court of law and putting it all together into your own independent, thought through point of view. One thing that's very important to realise is that critical thinking isn’t about being critical and it's about much more than finding flaws in other people’s claims. By itself, that isnt enough to give you an edge. To be a true critical thinker means being creative, reflective and adaptable. Evaluating the evidence to decide for yourself what is accurate, what is relevant, and do I have sufficient info to make a decision on this topic. Thinking critically means taking a stand for yourself. It can be difficult not to be swayed by close family and friend’s views on things, or certain beliefs that just...feel right. But learning how to use these higher order thinking skills can help you feel more confident on your own opinions and conclusions. Crit thinking is also about the sense of discovery and excitement. Not only about learning, but evaluating arguments to see how they stand up and filtering for yourself what resonates as right or wrong. By using these techniques, you'll find yourself becoming a clearer, better thinker.

Critical thinking should be promoted in our schools. Especially with so much media manipulation and propaganda.

I think critical thinking should be thought in our schools, even before university so that it can be learned practically from a young age. It is a very essential skill that every mind needs.

Most of us were brought here by our teachers

Critical Thinking :- Asking Right Questions Critical Thinking:- Watching A Situation In All The Angles before giving judgement, it helps to see key points Critical Thinking :- Critical Thinking Isn't About Being Critical, It's About Finding Flaws In Other's Claims and it isn't an edge Critical Thinking :- critical thinker means being creative, reflective, adaptable & Evaluating evidence to decide a accurate Critical Thinking :- Standing For Yourself what is right in your family and friends situation Critical Thinking :- a sense of discovery, excitement & not only about learning but also evaluating arguments to see how they stand up and filtering for yourself what resonates is right, wrong By Using These Techniques You'll Find Yourself Becoming A Clear&Better Thinker

Learn better, think smarter and aim higher! Simply great!

I think being able to distinguish your thought from so many others gives you that independence to make sound judgement.

Critical thinking is a continuous process. Its Evaluating information and putting opinions based on facts, and applying what you learn to effectively solve problems and make better decisions.

I really am impressed with this course , these skills most defiantly need to be taught in grade school to college. this skill trains society to function properly and respectfully to solve problems accurately by using facts to come to answer instead of rouge feelings and ignorance to make a final decision . Truly wish i had taken this class a long time ago!

This needs to be seen a lot of people and practiced. Even by "educated" professors and students, this needs to be seen again.

learn better is the most important thing we should do in whole life

People hate me when they ask me to pick a side on something, especially politics, because I very rarely feel that I have enough information to make a thorough decision or analysis. I also wish I was more creative in order to help me..that’s a whole other muscle that needs flexing

Critical Thinking is all about questions. Creativity, adaptivity and the ability to embrace relevant information. In all circumstances think things through and developing a planned process will save time and energy. I don't think any business likes time wasted. Sometimes in certain cases it may be better to take a step back and asses from different view-points.

Critical Thinking = Discernment + Courage

Clear and Consiced Video! Thank You.

i know that critical thinking is a big part of my life to be able to communicate the information given to me and make a sound decision

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up ❗👍👍👍👍👍

Being creative in oneself

Eager to learn more about this concept. Thank you for sharing glimpse of critical thinking.

Transcript: Critical thinking is all about asking questions, the right questions. Questions that help you assess both the meaning and the significance of claims and arguments. Building these skills and applying them in your life makes it easier for you to assess evidence, evaluate arguments, and adapt your thinking so you stay switched on and engaged in different situations. Critical thinking involves stepping back from a situation to enable you to see all of the angles before making judgments or taking decisions. It means identifying the key points, analyzing the sources of information, weighing up different types of evidence, just as a judge and jury would do in a court of law, and puting it all together into your own independent thought through point of view. One thing that it's very important to realize is that critical thinking isn't about being critical. And it's about much more than just finding flaws in other people's claims. By itself that isn't enough to give you an edge. To be a true critical thinker means being creative, reflective, and adaptable. Evaluating the evidence to decide for yourself what is accurate, what is relevant, and do I have sufficient information to take a decision on this topic? Thinking critically means taking a stand for yourself. It can be difficult not to be swayed by close family or friend's views on things or certain beliefs that just feel right, but learning how to use these higher-order thinking skills can help you to feel much more confident in your own opinions and conclusions. Critical thinking is also about a sense of discovery and excitement not only about learning but evaluating arguments to see how they stand up, and filtering for yourself what resonates as right or wrong. By using these techniques you'll find yourself becoming a clearer, better thinker. (To copy, screen snap this and use Google Lens to copy it.)