Critical and creative thinking Creative thinking Myths about

Critical and creative thinking

Creative thinking Myths about creativity: The creative personality cannot be developed. Not every individual has the potential to be creative. The creative personality has a high IQ. New products and ideas are the result of chance. Creativity begins with artists and art.

Creative thinking Tools to creativity: Challenge assumptions Recognise patterns Make connections Take risks Recognise opportunity Think parallel Thinking Hats

Creative thinking White hat thinking BLACK hat thinking Yellow hat thinking

Creative thinking Brainstorming exercise: Divide into groups of four people. You will be given a social issue BRAINSTORM ideas.

Rules for brainstorming Accept ALL ideas. Quantity and variety matter. Take risks, break rules, play with ideas. Use your imagination. Do not praise nor criticize any idea. Try to combine and improve. Avoid ownership of ideas. Encourage provocative, impossible ideas.

Critical thinking Components of critical and analytical thinking: Perception Assumptions Emotion Language Argument Fallacy Logic

Critical thinking Develop your critical thinking: Identify and analyse arguments Clarification Credibility of evidence and sources Judge inferences Attribute implicit assumptions Reasoning about causation Decision making

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