Creative+and+Critical+Thinking


 * Creative and Critical Thinking **

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Creative Thinking
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.


 * Creative Thinkers**
 * Consider rejecting standardized formats for problem solving.
 * Have an interest in a wide range of related and divergent fields.
 * Take multiple perspectives on a problem.
 * Use trial-and-error methods in their experimentation
 * Have a future orientation.
 * Have self-confidence and trust in their own judgment.

Critical 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, hyphothesizing, and critiquing.

**Components of Critical Thinking**
 * 1) Identifying and challenging assumptions.
 * 2) Recognizing the importance of context.
 * 3) Imagining and exploring alternatives.
 * 4) Developing reflective skepticism.




 * **Critical Thinking** || **Creative Thinking** ||
 * analytic || generative ||
 * convergent || divergent ||
 * vertical || lateral ||
 * probability || possibility ||
 * judgment || suspended judgment ||
 * focused || diffuse ||
 * objective || subjective ||
 * answer || an answer ||
 * left brain || right brain ||
 * verbal || visual ||
 * linear || associative ||
 * reasoning || richness, novelty ||
 * yes but || yes and ||

Shows a school that is using Creative and Critical Thinking skills

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Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity

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