Organizational bahaviour
Seminar 2
Thematic Study
1
Seminar 2
Learning objectives:
1. Understand Creative and Critical Thinking
Assignment requirements
2. Practice on some of the previous assignments 2
Differences between Critical & Creative Thinking
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Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing.
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Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. It involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, associative thinking, attribute listing, metaphorical thinking, forced relationships. The aim of creative thinking is to stimulate curiosity and promote divergence. 3
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What is Creativity?
There is no single accepted definition:
• “…any form of action that leads to results that are novel, useful, predictable.”
• “Seeing things that everyone around us sees while making connections that no one else has made.”
What does this tell you?
Creative Thinking
“When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile”
-- Steve Jobs
Characteristics of Creative People
• Adjectives used to describe creative people
– Original
– Resourceful
– Reflective
– Self-confident
Creative Thinking (From the Course Outline)
• Learning Objectives:
• Develop Creative Thinking Skills to creatively generate novel ideas, insights, frame problems in multiple ways and to conceive unconventional solutions
Creative Thinking Assignment
• Through the use of Creative Thinking tools e.g. metaphors, forced association, analogical thinking, etc., students are to generate novel ideas to an assigned real life situation. They will also have to
Thematic Study
1
Seminar 2
Learning objectives:
1. Understand Creative and Critical Thinking
Assignment requirements
2. Practice on some of the previous assignments 2
Differences between Critical & Creative Thinking
•
Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing.
•
Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. It involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, associative thinking, attribute listing, metaphorical thinking, forced relationships. The aim of creative thinking is to stimulate curiosity and promote divergence. 3
4
What is Creativity?
There is no single accepted definition:
• “…any form of action that leads to results that are novel, useful, predictable.”
• “Seeing things that everyone around us sees while making connections that no one else has made.”
What does this tell you?
Creative Thinking
“When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile”
-- Steve Jobs
Characteristics of Creative People
• Adjectives used to describe creative people
– Original
– Resourceful
– Reflective
– Self-confident
Creative Thinking (From the Course Outline)
• Learning Objectives:
• Develop Creative Thinking Skills to creatively generate novel ideas, insights, frame problems in multiple ways and to conceive unconventional solutions
Creative Thinking Assignment
• Through the use of Creative Thinking tools e.g. metaphors, forced association, analogical thinking, etc., students are to generate novel ideas to an assigned real life situation. They will also have to