...PHL/458 Version 2 Creative Minds and Critical Thinking Copyright © 2009, 2005 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description In this course, students will analyze the thinking process from a critical and creative perspective. The lives of prominent creative thinkers will be examined to identify the social, historical, psychological, and cultural elements that influenced their development. The salient aspects of creativity will be assessed along with the relationship between creativity and critical thinking. Students will apply critical thinking skills to contemporary creative and scientific thought. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Ruggiero, V. R. (2009). The art of thinking: A guide to critical and creative thought (9th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Longman. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Week One: Developing...
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...Description OI 361 Weeks 1-5 All DQ’s OI 361 Week 1 Individual Assignment Definitions Paper OI 361 Week 2 Individual Assignment Organizational Impact Paper OI 361 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Benefits and Drivers Proposal OI 361 Week 3 Individual Assignment – Mental Models and Mindsets Paper OI 361 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment – Strategy, Process, Product, and Services Paper OI 361 Week 4 Individual Assignment Case Study Creative Thinkers Outline Paper and Presentation OI 361 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment – Mental Models and Mindsets Paper OI 361 Week 5 Individual Assignment – Organizational Transformation Q&A OI 361 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment – Innovation Process Paper and Presentation OI 361 Entire Course Purchase here http://homeworkonestop.com/OI%20361/oi-361-entire-course Product Description OI 361 Weeks 1-5 All DQ’s OI 361 Week 1 Individual Assignment Definitions Paper OI 361 Week 2 Individual Assignment Organizational Impact Paper OI 361 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Benefits and Drivers Proposal OI 361 Week 3 Individual Assignment – Mental Models and Mindsets Paper OI 361 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment – Strategy, Process, Product, and Services Paper OI 361 Week 4 Individual Assignment Case Study Creative Thinkers Outline Paper and Presentation OI 361 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment – Mental Models and Mindsets Paper OI 361 Week 5 Individual Assignment – Organizational Transformation Q&A OI 361 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment...
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... | |1. Preparation: |In this stage the thinker formulates the problem and collects the facts and materials considered necessary | | |for finding new solutions. Many times the problem cannot be solved even after days, weeks or months of | | |concentrated efforts. Failing to solve the problem, the thinker turns away from it initiating next stage. - | | |See more at: | | |http://www.psychologydiscussion.net/mind/creative-thinking-4-stages-of-creativity-thinking/610#sthash.bZY7Yem| | |D.dpuf | |2. Incubation: |During this period some of the ideas that were interfering with the solution will tend to fade. The overt | | |activity and sometimes even thinking about the problem is absent in this stage. But the unconscious thought | | |process involved in creative thinking is at work during this period. Apparently the thinker will be busy in | | |other activities like reading literature or playing games, etc. In spite of these activities...
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... | | |College of Humanities | | |PHL/458 Version 2 | | |Creative Minds and Critical Thinking | Copyright © 2009, 2005 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description In this course, students will analyze the thinking process from a critical and creative perspective. The lives of prominent creative thinkers will be examined to identify the social, historical, psychological, and cultural elements that influenced their development. The salient aspects of creativity will be assessed along with the relationship between creativity and critical thinking. Students will apply critical thinking skills to contemporary creative and scientific thought. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies...
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... Solve a Problem Creative thinkers have a generalized set of character traits used within the creative thinking process to assist with finding the best resolution to the challenge faced that consist of originality, use of imagination, and effectiveness. Through each of the four stages of creative thinking, thinkers continuously find challenges and multiple ideas that create solutions for these challenges. Determining what the most effective solution to the challenge is may take a varied amount of time but because creative thinkers are so dedicated, they will keep striving to meet their goal. The personal challenge search effectively demonstrated all areas of the creative thinking process from beginning to end. Creative thinking is not just an art form; it is a process that requires hard-work and dedication from independent individuals who strive to find the best possible solution to a challenge. Creative Thinking Process The creative thinking process consists of four steps which break down the different essential areas that cover all aspects of the process, from beginning to end. Creative thinkers have character traits of boldness, resourcefulness, independence, are generally dedicated hard workers. Each step of the creative thinking process is routine for creative thinkers because they know until one step is completed the next cannot commence. Step 1 Many times issues and problems are present within everyday life even when creative thinkers are not searching...
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...to promote and sustain organizational innovation for competitive advantage. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Rowe, A. (2004). Creative intelligence. Discovering the innovative potential in ourselves and others. Upper Saddle River, NJ:...
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...The following set of Discussion Questions has been proposed for use in this class. In almost all cases, these will be the Discussion Questions used throughout the weeks of class. However, please make sure you read the question as posted in the Main Forum and respond appropriately. Week One Discussion Questions • What do you think is the difference between thinking and critical thinking? Why? • According to the text, good thinking is a habit. Which bad habits to you think hinder your ability to be a good thinker? Why? • What is active listening? How do you think active listening is related to critical thinking? • There are predictable stages through which every critical thinker must pass. Under what circumstances might one regress from one stage to a previous one? In your current stage of development as a critical thinker, have you progressed or regressed to this stage? • Review the following Elder and Paul articles in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings: o “Critical Thinking: Nine Strategies for Everyday Life, Part I” o “Critical Thinking: Nine Strategies for Everyday Life, Part II” Choose one of the nine strategies. How might you apply it in your life to be a better student? Week Two Discussion Questions • Select three habits that hinder thinking from those discussed in Ch. 3 of The Art of Thinking. How have you struggled with these habits in the past? What can you do to overcome these habits and improve your thinking? • Even though...
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...Week Three: Individual Work Complete the Following Assessments Human Relations in Management – MAN3100 Complete the following assessments: 1. “Time Out: What Type of Thinker Are you?” 2. How Willing Are You to Take Risks in the Workplace? 3. Team Player Test 4. Team Role Test A. Summarize your results for each assessment B. Describe what your results suggest about your behavior and performance as a member of a group/team. C. Conclude by explaining how you could use your strengths to build an effective team and resolve conflicts. 1-A. My result on this test indicate my preference equally to both Colum I (8) & Colum II (8) and that I am a highly an Analytical and a Creative Thinker. As an Analytical Thinker: I use the left side of my brain than the right and that I’m using analysis in thinking. As a Creative Thinker: I use the right side of my brain more than the left and that I have an originality thinking or being imaginative. One is not better than the other, in fact they are both useful in their distinct ways. 2-A. Risk-taking test results show that I am more effective in risk-taking as an individual than in a group. At the same time, though, I don’t want to do something that is dangerous, therefore the probability of success must balance with the probable of failure. 3-A. my team player test results show that I am doing reasonably well in brainstorming with a group of people and I am totally free from the hindering effects of...
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...Decision- Making Paper AJS/512 December 4, 2013 Decision- Making Paper The purpose for this paper is to describe the group decision-making process in any organization. The paper will have one successful and one unsuccessful experience that involved with group decision-making. After these example the paper will discus the factor that affects the group’s overall effectiveness, drawing from the text. In any organization individual, team, and group decision-making process is part of every day life. In today’s society there are different thinking styles and decision-making because of the different diversity. Thinking styles can be categorized into three groups which are persuasive, creative, and logical. Individuals use types of thinking styles to make a decision in their professional lives as well as personal. Many times the way individuals approach the different methods of thinking come from what they had learned when they were children. This comes from experiences in which they may have been involved, witnessed growing up, or during work experience. Persuasive thinking will always affect more than one person while logical and creative thinking can affect individuals, team, and group. There is a fine line drawn between persuasive thinking and manipulating. Both involve getting other to accept the way of thinking that individual posses, the different being whether or not individuals let other know they are trying to influence them or not. Persuasive...
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... 2 years ago Thanks for sharing Zaid. Your presentation played a key part in a video about critical thinking that I just published. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85-j7Nr9i4 chuchad at chuchad, 2 years ago Thank you for sharing. This presentation is very useful. ommeone 2 years ago Thank you for sharing the great ideas of critical thinking. It really helps me on doing my thesis. Patti Waterbury, Founder/President at Creative Growth Strategies, Inc., 2 years ago Thank you for sharing...excellent content. Comments 1 - 10 of 21 comments next Embed Video Subscribe to comments Post Comment Speaker Notes on slide 28 98 Favorites Karori International Ventures Limited at Karori International Ventures Limited, 1 month ago Tags creative thinking Greg Williams, instructional designer, eLearning developer, professor, trainer, consultant at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1 month ago Wagner Rezende, Professor at UFG, 2 months ago osupa01 3 months ago Monica Giovanovich, capacitacion, comunicacion, recursos humanos at Independiente, 4 months ago asaito 6 months ago Tags critical thinking weme 6 months ago chiggsy 6 months ago celestwoo 8 months ago Shashidhar Venkatesh Murthy, Associate Professor & Head of Pathology at School of Medicine, James Cook University QLD 4811 AUSTRALIA, 8 months ago more Introduction to Critical Thinking -...
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... ® March 3, 2011 How Successful People Think John C. Maxwell Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Summarized by permission of the publisher, Center Street, New York, New York. All rights reserved. ©2009 by John C. Maxwell ISBN: 978-1-59995-168-3 Introduction In all aspects of life, from the professional world to family interactions, good thinkers help solve problems. For 40 years, John C. Maxwell has studied and analyzed successful people and how they think. He has concluded that the way successful people approach the thought process is a key differentiator. In How Successful People Think, Maxwell discusses the 11 skills that good thinkers exhibit and describes how to adopt these skills. Maxwell recommends keeping it in a place where it will stimulate further thinking. 2. Spending time with good thinkers. Maxwell believes that to become a sharp thinker, a person must spend time with sharp people and observe how they think. 3. Thinking good thoughts. The thinking process is a discipline. As a result, it is important to make thinking a priority and to regularly take time to generate and develop thoughts. 4. Acting on good thoughts. The window of opportunity to act on promising thoughts is short. When a good thought arises, it is important to act on it quickly. 5. Allowing emotions to create another good thought. A person cannot wait to start the thinking pro- Getting Started with Better Thinking For a person to change the way they think, they must commit time...
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...Week 1: Introduction to Critical Thinking This week, Madam Aznur started our learning by explaining about the differences between the critical thinking and creative thinking. Critical thinking is a cognitive activity-associated with using the mind and basically is using by the left brain, while creative thinking is using by the right brain. Being the type of person that likes to read about any argument or debate about some matter especially when it comes to economics and politics, I can confidently say that critical thinking is the most important subject I’ve ever offered in my academic life. My abilities to recognize technique used to make certain position more appealing, reflecting an issue in a structured manner, drawing conclusion, synthesizing information and presenting a point of view were a complete joke. Having all these disabilities, I believe critical thinking, as a subject, is the best thing has happened to my academic life. I intend to attentively to study this subject and allow it to have an impact on my academic and social life. Week 2: The Basic Structure of Argument During week 2, I’ve learned about the basic structure of an argument. Argument can be simply defined as a series of statements used to persuade someone of something. There are two main components in argument, which are the premise and the conclusion. We also learned about proposition. Proposition is a declarity and it can be either true or false. We also have been taught about statement:...
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...Reflection 1: Unit Expectation and Team Formation Describe: Collaboration and interaction between colleagues are very important in the workplace. Therefore, Professional Development 1 is a subject that develops students with critical thinking skills and also allows more interaction and collaboration between students in groups and teams. Activities like group projects, class-based activities, team-based projects and case study that approach to business issues will be given during the unit. This is to prepare students to be more competitive in the university and also the workplace. This week, our lecture form us into a group of six based on a quiz that was given last week which categorized us as carers, doers, leaders, achievers and thinkers. After the teams are form, we are told to prepare a contract between our team members by discussing our vision and mission and also the ground rules. Interpret: Stone reflects that ‘Critical thinking and analytical thinking, problem solving, data analysis, communicating and presenting findings, and decision-making are the specific top five analytical skills today and also in the future in the workplace’ (2014). Since those skills are similar to what we are going to learn in this unit, therefore I expect to improve all of the analytical skills in this unit. Every job require their employees to work in teams, this is because Susan reflects that ‘in today’s organizations, teamwork, effective work teams, and team building are popular topics’...
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...accurate his or her grasp of everyday experiences. The chapters included in this section of the book will enlarge your understanding of the thinking process; clarify the important and frequently misunderstood concepts of truth, knowledge, and opinion; identify the habits that corrupt thinking; and show you how to become a more critical reader. ISBN 1-256-46689-1 The Art of Thinking: A Guide to Critical and Creative Thought, Tenth Edition, by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero. Published by Pearson. Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 1-256-46689-1 The Art of Thinking: A Guide to Critical and Creative Thought, Tenth Edition, by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero. Published by Pearson. Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. C H A P T E R 1 Developing Your Thinking: An Overview Is thinking an activity that is done automatically, without conscious effort, or one that we can direct? Is daydreaming a kind of thinking? Are feelings an effective substitute for thinking? Do exceptional thinkers experience mental blocks, lapses in concentration, and confusion the same way average thinkers do? Can thinking skill be acquired, or does one have to be born with it? In this chapter, you will find answers to these questions and other basic facts that will enable you to use this book confidently. ISBN 1-256-46689-1 laude is a high school student. His English teacher has just asked the class to identify the theme of the short story they read for homework. When no one answers, she admonishes...
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...Refining ideas PHL/458 University of Phoenix Refining ideas When refining ideas, there are three steps to follow to produce a viable solution. The first step is to work out the details by determining exactly how a solution will be applied. The second step is to examine those details for imperfections and the third step is to make improvements that will eliminate imperfections (Ruggiero, 2009). The original issue seen on week two was a computer malfunction. The problem with this is that it prevents me from completing my work on time. Many possible reasons are possible for the malfunction: it can be overload, an out- of- date computer or a person deleted vital programs in error causing the malfunction. Some initial solutions: can be to consult with the competition, Google the challenge presented and follow instructions on how to fix problem, change computers every week to a new one, completely abolish deadlines and anticipate computer damage before it happens by auto-testing the computer every 15 minutes for potential malfunctions. While doing a critical examination of best solution, these questions are to be addressed and answered: What exactly is to be done? The answer is to anticipate computer damage. How is it to be done? A device that alerts the user that a computer malfunction is imminent, the user can immediately click on a defense software to rescue or fix the malfunction before the...
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