Critical and Creative Thinking

for Positive Outcomes

Anthony Acevedo, MA Ed
August 21, 2019

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 Critical and Creative Thinking
for Positive Outcomes
1. Kinesthetic Perceptions
2. Affective Simulation
3. Critical Thinking Definitions
4. Cognitive Perspectives
5. Learning and Teaching Domains
6. Best Perspectives
7. Combining Critical and Creative Thinking
8. Positive Outcomes
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 How Are Our Perceptions Aligned?
• Perceptions impact the way we
think, feel and act.

• It takes brain time to sort out

the perceptions our senses are
sending it.

• Perceptions affect problem

solving, decision making,
conflict resolution and both Yes, we are
critical and creative thinking. open-minded!

• Let’s take a kinesthetic look

at our perceptions.
 The horizontal lines look like they slope.
The horizontal lines are parallel and do not slope.
 Try counting the black dots.
The black dots look like they move.
Is the left, center circle, bigger?
Keep staring at the black dot. After a while the
gray haze around it will appear to shrink.
This elephant looks like it has at least 5 legs.
Some say it has 8 legs.
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS
OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF MANY YEARS.

How many letter F’s are there?

Look at the faces from different angles.
There are 3 faces in this image.
Look at the chart and say the COLOR not the word.

Right – Left Conflict

Your right brain tries to say the color.
Your left brain keeps on reading the word.
 Right – Left Conflict
This is a discussion for neurolinguistics.
 Affective Simulation
Carl Jung Psychological Test?

Let’s participate in an affective simulation to help us

think critically. How well do we know ourselves?

How might students feel when sharing their work?

How about a reflective psychological test?

We each need paper or a cell phone to answer

4 questions with a total of 15 individual words.

This is an individual activity.

 Affective Simulation
Carl Jung Psychological Test?

Use our colorful imaginations and calmly, patiently

and peacefully answer these questions without
talking to anybody. Please do this individually.
There are 4 questions.

Question #1.

1. Choose a color, the first color that comes to

mind. Once you have that color, list three
adjectives that describe it.
 Affective Simulation
Carl Jung Psychological Test?

Please do not talk to anybody and do this

individually. There are 4 questions.

Question #2.

2. Choose an animal, the first animal that comes to

mind. Once you have selected an animal, list three
adjectives that describe it.
 Affective Simulation
Carl Jung Psychological Test?

Please do not talk to anybody and do this

individually. There are 4 questions.

Question #3.

3. Choose a body of water like a river, ocean,

lagoon, sea, or lake. Once you have chosen a body
of water, list three adjectives that describe it.
 Affective Simulation
Carl Jung Psychological Test?

Please do not talk to anybody and do this

individually. This is the last question.

Question #4.

4. Pretend you are in a white room with no

windows or doors. Once you have done this,
list three emotions you are feeling.
 Affective Simulation
Carl Jung Psychological Test?

After answering the questions, here is an interpretation of the results.

1. The color represents what you think of yourself.

2. The animal represents what you think of other people.

3. The body of water represents what you think about romance.

4. The white room represents what you feel when you are by yourself.

Did you like the Affective Simulation?

How did your neighbor like the Affective Simulation?
Did you share your Affective Simulation results with anybody?
 Critical Thinking Definition

Critical thinking is on-going and looks at problems

inherent in human thinking.

Critical thinking leads to analyzing and evaluating

thinking to improve it.

Critical thinking is reflecting on meaning, evidence

and reasoning, and forming judgments about the facts.

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 Critical Thinking Definition
We gather information from:
reflection, observation, experience, reasoning, reading,
writing, speaking and listening.

We use intellectual criteria based on:

clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth,
logic, significance, fairness.

These guide us to be fair-minded and open-minded.

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http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-idea-of-critical-thinking/408
https://focionline.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/dwight-atkinson.pdf
http://www.asiatefl.org/main/download_pdf.php?i=274&c=1419312654
 As EFL Teachers We Share Perspectives
Reading Passage
“Prjet wrk is student-cetrd and drievn by the need
to creat an end-product. Howver, it is hte route to
achieving this end product that mkes pjct work so
wothwhle. The route to the end-product brings
oppotuinties for sudnts to develop thir confience
and indepnedece and to wok tgether ina real-wold
enviornmet by colavorating on a task which they
hve defined for thenselfs and which has not been
externaly impsed.”
(Fried-Booth 2002: 6)
Not only can we read this, as EFL teachers
we can also correct and rewrite it.
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Three Little Pigs With and Without Critical Thinking

With Without
 Three Domains of Learning and Teaching

3. Psychomotor – Kinesthetic Perceptions

2. Emotions – Affective Simulation

1. Thinking – Cognitive Domains

All 3 domains are connected through our perceptions

and neurolinguistics.

Now let’s concentrate on Thinking!

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Cognitive Domains (Levels of Thinking)

Original version said

Comprehension here.

Bloom’s Taxonomy 27
Let’s Create Our Own Taxonomies!

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Names Taxonomy

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 Choose a Verb for
Critical and Creative Thinking

• Knowledge (Thinking): arrange, define, duplicate,

label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize,
relate, recall, repeat, reproduce, state

• Understanding (Thinking): classify, describe,

discuss, explain, express, identify, indicate, locate,
recognize, report, restate, review, select, translate

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 Choose a Verb for
Critical and Creative Thinking

• Application (Critical): apply, choose, demonstrate,

dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate,
practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write

• Analysis (Critical): analyze, appraise, calculate,

categorize, compare, contrast, criticize,
differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine,
experiment, question, test

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 Choose a Verb for
Critical and Creative Thinking

• Synthesis (Critical and Creative): arrange, assemble,

collect, compose, construct, create, design, develop,
formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare, propose,
set up, write

• Evaluation (Critical and Creative): appraise, argue,

assess, attach, choose compare, defend estimate,
judge, predict, rate, core, select, support, value,
evaluate

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Match Your Verb to an Activity for Critical
and Creative Thinking
Knowledge (Thinking)
 Make a list of the main
events.
 Make a timeline of events.
 Make a facts chart.
 Write a list of any pieces of
information you can
remember.
Understanding (Thinking)
 Cut out or draw pictures to
show a particular event.
 Illustrate what you think the
main idea was.
 Make a cartoon strip showing
the sequence of events.
 Write and perform a play
based on the story.
 Retell the story in your words.
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Match Your Verb to an Activity for Critical
and Creative Thinking
Application (Critical)
 Make a scrapbook about areas
of interest.
 Make a map that includes
relevant information about an
event.
 Take photographs to
demonstrate a particular point.
 Design a market strategy for
your product using a model.
 Dress a doll in national costume
and explain it.
Analysis (Critical)
 Design a questionnaire to gather
information.
 Write a commercial to sell a new
product.
 Conduct an investigation to
produce information to support a
view.
 Make a flow chart to show the
stages of a process.
 Construct a graph to illustrate
selected information.
 Make a jigsaw puzzle or family
tree showing relationships.
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 Match Your Verb to an Activity for Critical
and Creative Thinking
Synthesis (Critical and Creative) Evaluation (Critical and Creative)

 Write about our feelings in  Conduct debates about issues of special

relation to an events. interest.

 Write TV shows, plays, puppet  Make booklets about 5 important rules.

shows, role plays, songs or
pantomime about subjects.  Convince others about a campaign.

 Form panels to discuss views such as

 Design a webpage, book or "Learning at School."
magazine cover about a topic.
 Write letters to the president on
 Make up new language codes changes needed in society.
and write material using them.
 Prepare cases to present our views on
 Sell ideas or products. world issues.
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 Create Our Own Taxonomies!

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Verb and Activity here.

Our Names Taxonomy

(Preferred Taxonomy and Compare)
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Perspectives in Old and New Critical Thinking

and

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Perspectives in Critical and Creative Thinking

or or and

(& Online)

and even

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 Best Perspectives in
Critical and Creative Thinking
 Problem solving and inquiry-based discussions.
 Informal exploratory writing.
 Conduct opinion polls/surveys as pre-reading
activities.
 Present activities that require considering
opposing views.
 Use poetry to promote discussions.
 Choose a language skill and prepare ourselves
and others.

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 Our Best Perspectives as
Critical and Creative Thinkers
 Intellectual courage, integrity, empathy, perseverance.
 Respect others.
 Continuous learners.
 Make the right decisions for the majority.
 Listen and consider unconventional opinions.
 Avoid analysis paralysis.
 Analyze ourselves with constructive reflection.

We think about and communicate the why!

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Three Little Pigs With and Without Critical Thinking
With Without
Three Little Pigs With and Without Creative Thinking
With Without

Critical Thinking Keeps Our Creative Thinking Grounded

 Critical and Creative Thinking
for Positive Outcomes
Critical Thinking
+ Plus

Creative Thinking
= Equals Yes, we are
open-minded!
Higher Order Thinking Skills!
Our Perceptions Are Aligned!
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Combining Critical and Creative Thinking for
Positive Outcomes

Use our colorful imaginations to fill this

white space.

How can we combine critical and

creative thinking so the Three Little Pigs
has a positive outcome?

Their world is in our hands!

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Combining Critical and Creative Thinking
for Positive Outcomes
Peace in the World!

The person who learns and thinks also grows.

(Anonymous Proverb)
 References
• This presentation was purposely designed in mostly black and
white because imaginations are required. - Anthony Acevedo
• Critical Thinking Online Course - University of Oregon - E-teacher
Scholarship U.S. State Department
• Elizabeth Palacios - Assistant Academic Program Manager ICPNA
• The Academic Management Team at ICPNA
• Reflection IN or ON Action (Schön, 1987)
• The Critical Thinking Development Stage Theory (Elder, L. and
Paul R. (1996).
• http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-
idea-of-critical-thinking/408
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-
the-philosophies-of-Socrates-Plato-and-Aristotle

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Critical and Creative Thinking
for Positive Outcomes

Anthony Acevedo, MA Ed
August 21, 2019

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