Thinking Skills Workshop :

 This blog post is a response to the Sunday Reading task on' Thinking Skill' given by our Prof.Dr.Dilip Barad Sir.

In our department t13th and 14th August 2022 two-day workshop on Thinking Skills, conducted by Prof.Dr.Milan Pandya Sir. 

Milan Pandya is a teacher, trainer, and educator in the field of Thinking Skills i.e. Critical, Creative and Design Thinking, English Language Teaching & Communication Skills. With more than 12 years of teaching experience, Mr. Pandya has authored 02 books and 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 across the world.

Mr. Pandya has BA & MA in English Literature, M.Phil in English Language Teaching (ELT) & his Ph.D involves study in Online Teaching, Communicative Competence & 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.

Sir gave us definition of Thinking Skill-

"Thinking about thinking in order to improve thinking".

On 13th August is first day, sir talked with us doubtfully skeptical in the way of critical thinking. Also, Sir gave us three words: logical,rational and scientific, it is important in our life.

Logical,

Rational,

Scientific. 

 Sir says , "Thinking is the soul of the body" and " Context is everything in the thinking process".

Sir explains the various types of t.v. serial advertisement and popular icon. Sir gave us ideas about what is possible and plausible. He also gave us lots of conspiracy theories such as the corona pandemic and Sushantsingh Rajput. Then he says if something is true what else has to be true. 

  Sir also gave us "Your teacher might be wrong. Learn to think for yourself".

On the second day of the workshop 14th August sir came up with the one game in which we have to show our creativity and thinking power. sir said that critical thinking is always practiced because nobody was born a critical thinker.

This is a very interesting thinking Activity. We start with a simple question of how many categories we see in this image and then we find many categories and then connect the dots of our routine life and we find many engaging things like,Food, clothes, spots,Vegetables, religion, Money, electronic machines.

Thanking Prof.Dr.Dilip Barad sir for organizing the workshop.

Thank you!