{"id":239,"date":"2018-10-08T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-10-21T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:22:46","slug":"unit-3-learning-activity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/2018\/10\/unit-3-learning-activity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Activity 2 – Rank, Talk, Write"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u201cToward a Creative Criticality- Revisiting Critical Thinking\u201d, Cooper (2018) articulates four main ideas:<\/p>\n

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  1. Creative criticality is the idea that critical thinking, the ability to analyze and evaluate new ideas, and creativity, the ability to produce new content and innovative solutions to common problems, do not oppose one another, but rather form a symbiotic relationship that should be understood and taught (Cooper, 2018).<\/li>\n
  2. Creative criticality should be taught to graduate students because it will move graduate students towards the goal of many graduate studies programs, which is to have students who actively produce knowledge and contribute to scholarly work rather than students who are passive consumers of information (Cooper, 2018).<\/li>\n
  3. Critical thinking is an ongoing process that is developed over a lifetime of intentionally cultivating the ability to think about one\u2019s thinking processes with the goal of improving these processes (Cooper, 2018).<\/li>\n
  4. To understand that creative thinking is a skill everyone has we need an expanded definition that does not limit it to artist expressions, but rather understands it as an openness to step outside current systems and structures in order to explore new possibilities, develop new ways of thinking, and innovate new solutions to challenges or problems (Cooper, 2018).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Cooper (2018) argues that creative criticality should be valued by educators and taught to graduate studies students because it will help produce lifelong learners who are capable of creating new ideas that have been evaluated through critical thinking. He articulates that creative thinking and critical thinking do not oppose one another, but rather creative thinking allows students to think more critically because it gives them new content to think critically about. This ability to think critically about new content will help students become meaningful contributors to scholarly work, but furthermore, it will equip students for the unique challenges they face in the work force (Cooper 2018); it gives them the skillset to not only create new solutions to complex problems, but to critically analyze these solutions before moving on to implementation.<\/p>\n

    As I read this article I became very aware of how creative criticality is being taught to us as students in the Master of Arts in Leadership Program at Trinity Western University. As an example through this assignment, it became evident to me that what we were being asked to do was to think creatively about how we could summarize each of the main ideas in an article down to a simple sentence. While I cannot speak for my classmates, my experience was that in order to develop the summary sentences I had to not only create new ways of articulating the content, but I had to critically analyze the content I was creating to ensure it remained true to the original ideas.<\/p>\n

    Was this idea that we need to redefine creativity in order to understand that it can work in tandem with critical thinking one you have already considered? I wonder what other understandings I need to adjust in order to see how two things that appear to be a dichotomy could in fact form a symbiotic relationship.<\/p>\n

    References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Cooper, T. (2018). Toward a creative criticality: Revisiting critical thinking.\u00a0Integral Leadership Review<\/em>,\u00a018<\/em>(1), 41\u201348. Retrieved from https:\/\/ezproxy.student.twu.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=131747510&site=eds-live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In \u201cToward a Creative Criticality- Revisiting Critical Thinking\u201d, Cooper (2018) articulates four main ideas: Creative criticality is the idea that critical thinking, the ability to analyze and evaluate new ideas, and creativity, the ability to produce new content and innovative… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/padnTM-3R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}