Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Daily Life Presentation

This presentation focuses on critical thinking and problem-solving, covering what thinking is, types of thinking, and the definition of critical thinking. It delves into the standards of critical thinking, its advantages, characteristics, and potential barriers. The presentation highlights how critical thinking can be applied in daily life, improve communication skills, and aid in decision-making. It also includes references to academic resources such as books and journals. The assignment brief outlines the project requirements, including a written essay and a 5-10 minute presentation. The evaluation criteria emphasize creativity, content quality, teamwork, conclusions, and effective handling of questions. The topic focuses on the effect of critical thinking and problem solving on daily lives, mental health, and society.

Power Point
Presentation on
Critical thinking and
Problem Solving

Through the presentation one will
be able to understand:
 What is thinking ?
 Types of thinking ?
 What is Critical thinking ?
 Critical thinking Standard ?
 Advantages of Critical thinking ?
 Characteristic of Critical thinking ?

What is Thinking?
 According to the author Meltzoff and
Cooper, (2018) thinking is a process of
searching an organized process to do
various types of work in a proper
manner and make sense.

What is Critical thinking ?
 According to the author McPeck,
(2016) one of the best definition of
critical thinking is that it is one of the
best tool or process which is used to
figure out a myriad of information and
then make various types of informed
decision about the information
gathered.

Standards of Critical thinking .
 Clarity is the exploration of a point
further to get more information.
 Accuracy determines whether the
statement is really true or not
 Precision determines detailing out
more
 Relevancy determines the importance
to support the problem

Advantages of Critical thinking
 Helps in building god communication
skill
 People will be able to learn and solve
problem easily
 Shows innovation and creativity
 People tend to gather more knowledge

Advantages of Critical thinking in
daily life
 Helps us to avoid making foolish decision
 Helps us in becoming good citizen
 Helps in creating a good personality and
provides better decision making to
political and economic issues
 Helps us in gaining good knowledge and
thinking capabilitiies

Barriers of Critical thinking
 Why is uncritical thinking so common
in day to day life when critical thinking
is most important in daily life and
society?
 Why most of the highly educated
individuals find it so difficult to thinking
critically ?

Characteristics of Critical thinking
 A critical thinker analyzes based on
evidence rather than judgments
 Critical thinkers always try to read and
write rather than spending time uselessly
 Practices fair minded and have a
balanced view
 They often tend to control their feelings
for others

References
 McPeck, J.E., 2016. Teaching critical thinking:
Dialogue and dialectic. Routledge.
 Meltzoff, J. and Cooper, H., 2018. Critical
thinking about research: Psychology and related
fields. American psychological association.
 Paul, R. and Elder, L., 2019. A guide for
educators to critical thinking competency
standards: Standards, principles, performance
indicators, and outcomes with a critical thinking
master rubric. Rowman & Littlefield.