Question

Explain how thinking actively promotes critical thinking

Answer 1

Critical thinking is a high priority outcome of higher education – critical thinking skills are crucial for independent thinking and problem solving in both our students’ professional and personal lives.

Writing converts students from passive to active learners and requires them to identify issues and formulate hypotheses and arguments. The act of writing requires students to focus and clarify their thoughts before putting them down on paper, hence taking them through the critical thinking process.

Critical thinking through group collaboration also helps

Answer 2

Solution: Active thinking means experiencing and analyzing the external stimuli at the present moment. This analysis involves application of reason- questioning ideas, their validity, linking different ideas, building arguments around them, identify errors and solve problems. These are also the components of critical thinking.