INTRODUCTION TO THINKING SKILLS 1 EUW322- KEMAHIRAN BERFIKIR THINKING SKILL
What is think and thinking? Think cognitive behaviour Involves control. Minds movement become thinking when we direct them.
2 Conclusion: Thinking is any mental activity that helps formulate or solve a problem, make a decision, or fulfill a desire to understand. It is a searching for answers, a reaching for meaning (Ruggreio, 2012).
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Thinking skills definitions Costa (1985) in Philips 1999, gives meaning to thinking skill as a process by the mind as the result of receiving stimulus of the five senses. The meaning of stimulus then were seen in action.
4 Sigel (1984) says thinking skill is a reflex action, conceptual and resolving activities.
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Continue Thinking skill by Dewey (1933) in Philips (1999) is an effort of the mind to examine and weight certain information according to specific criteria.
6 Butterworth & Thwaites (2005), thinking skill is a critical thinking and can be argumentative.
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So, what is thinking skills? Conclusion: Cognitive processes in search of meaning and understanding of something, exploration on any possible ideas, decision making, problem solving and doing what is right, thus in concerns on the reflections of what has been-values on the thinking processes that has been made.
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Why is thinking skills is so important? Cognitive stimulations as to find problem solving methods in various ways and techniques in order to solve various kinds of life problems.
9 To produce a self learning, self independence and informative individual. Have the view on becoming holistic individual.
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Continue Able to use and outsource various resources in a creative and specific way/s in search of an answer of/or problem solver to a certain problem. Able to create and build positive social bonding. Able to avoid conflict.
11 Able to better communication (good communication skills). Able to understand various socio-cultures, norms and the belief of other races, ethnics without any prejudice on skin colours and religions.
12 Obstacles in developing thinking skills Gunung Kinabalu affect-Knowledge only on what has been taught. Not showing neither abilities nor skills in search of any new knowledge and additional skills within subject matters. 13
Spoon feed teaching-Everything was prepared for. Not willingly to be self independence learning. Hoping everything to be provided by the instructor.
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Continue Thinking trap- Ego-one way of thinking (area of interest), not explorative enough, not willing to listen to others, selfishness and bias.
No Creative Thinking!
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Type of Thinking Skills Use of thinking skills in order to solve problem.
Positive Analytical problem/cases Analyze Find solution and solve problem (Reactive based) (Information + techniques) Negative
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