THINKING SKILLS - WORKSHOP - MR. MILAN PANDYA

TWO DAY'S THINKING SKILLS WORKSHOP:-

THINKING SKILLS BY PROF. MILAN PANDYA:-

'Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.' - Edward De Bono

Hello..! Myself PAYAL BAMBHANIYA, I am student of English Language and Literature. writing this blog for special event and that was the workshop for thinking skills by the very good resource person PROF. MILAN PANDYA. 

MILAN PANDYA is a teacher, trainer, and educator in the field of thinking skills, critical, creative and design Thinking ,English Language Teaching & Communication Skills. with more than 12 years of teaching experience, MR. PANDYA has authored of two 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 & his PH.D involves study into online teaching and 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.

Day:- 1

The Workshop started on 13th august,2022. DR. DILIP BARAD SIR first warmly welcomed him and then give brief information about MR. MILAM PANDYA and his achievements and also his work areas. It was extremely enriching as well as hard nuts to cracked. Many things were discussed like,

CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKING:-

On the first day of the workshop sir started the session by asking a question, 'what is the meaning of critical or creative thinking'. critical and creative thinking both are having own values like the creative thinking lead us towards the ideas which are not chewed and also having it's worth within itself. when we talk about thinking skills, it covers three main areas,

1. Logical

2. Rational and

3. scientific Thinking

Thinking means when we start to apply our mind on anything that we come across. we all have thinking power , it is necessary to evaluate things rationally. when we think about anything we all have some doubt towards things and then we started logical and rational thinking. people should not accept things as it is presented and shown to us. we need to be Sceptical , because only this things led us to the truth. At that time it is necessary for us to the truth. sir also mentioned the great philosopher Socrates. I want put a quotation by this philosopher,

"I know you want believe me but the highest form of human excellence is to be question Oneself and Others."

Further sir gave a definition of critical thinking that ,

'Thinking about Thinking in order to improve Thinking.'

Here the act of thinking is for the act of improving the thinking process that how we can think in certain kind of patterns and flows. further he talk about FACT & OPINIONS.  According to him , facts are those which are not going to be change ever, and opinions are those which can change anytime. if you need to take decision you need thinking. He also told that , Human being is rational being.

Further he explain that , context is everything in critical thinking. when we look at anything we have to be critical about what else has to be true. for this he also use this line,

'If Something is true , what else has to be true in that.' 

so we always have to think in different ways and perspective. he also gave some examples like,

1. scene from KAREENA KAPOOR'S advertisement of lux soap:-

 This is a  advertisement of lux soap about 3 Ruppe discount on lux soap. Kareena Kapoor is belong to richest background and in the add she is smiling for just 3 ruppe discount.

2. A Tweeter post of the well known actor SATISH SANTOSH.

In this post he says that ," The very same TIRANGA DHWAJ my mother had got during quit INDIA movement, 1942. If we look at it critically, we would find that the flag which he has in his hands was made after the independence of INDIA in 1947. Before that it was not like there was another symbol, not ASHOK CHAKRA, so if we are not aware of history we take it as truth. while he talking about this things , he explored various incidents and thought about the questions asked by students. like fact of nature and gravity. we need to see possible and plausible aspects of the things or events.

Possible and

Plausible 

3.Photo of  Kerala shared by Sunny Leone.

  

      This photo shows many controversies. Kerala is considered as the most literate state , people are on the road for our home minister AMIT SHAH'S welcome. Here He tries to differentiate literary and education. The whole road is covered by people so there can be problems for people to manage their daily work, it can cause traffic, and disturbing in schools and hospitals. By all these pictures, sir explain that always be a critic. for that we need to search for the truth. He also presented a quote by LAO TE CHING,

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

Milan sir talked about it is very clear that, how we can think and how we should think for ourselves rather than do not believing in the things which are told to us and taught to us by the teachers. He also talked about other things by quotes that ,

'you don't need anything when you start to think of yourself.'

DAY:-2

The second day is all about thought experiments. children are very interesting to observe every things. Man is rational animal. But we cant say that  man is born with rationality, for that cultivation training plays a vital role.

"No one is born critical or creative, they have to train themselves.

when we look at anything , it is very difficult to come to a conclusion whether it is creative or not. To test our creative power , sir gave us a picture.

 

   In this picture we can see that there are so many objects together come out. It was kind we have to find out various categories the objects can be put under that. There are so many things of various fields. we all tried to differentiate things and some best categories which was imagined, presented and emerged by the classmates are,

• Nature verses Men
• Birth and Death 
• Materialistic world 
• Implements
• Red color as symbol of love 
• Religion verses science 
• fast food or cafeteria
• Black art 
• The Nobility 
• Book names:- Othello, Macbeth, The Gun Island.
• weapons 

we can considered all as a metaphor. It is call a thought process. It help us to train our mind. As well as creativity. It Is Important to look beyond the thing from different angles. And it is change our way of thinking skills. By that we got the glimpse of how criticism and creative thinking skills are difficult to have. And also at last sir told that it's the life skill not only thinking skills. He told that,

'you are what you are, because of thinking.'

so by the workshop I learn lots of things connected to creative and critical thinking. I Really like a thought experiments. At last sir gave a four P  to understand the creative and critical thinking.,

1. Person
2. Process
3. Press and
4. Product

lots of thank to Barad sir and Milan sir for this Wonderful workshop & session.

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