Thinking Skill - Workshop

                   Thinking Skills - Prof. Milan Pandya

      About Milan Pandya 

 

 

   Milan Pandya is a teacher ,trainer and educator in the field of thinking skills i.e., Critical, Creative and Design Thinking , English language teaching &Communication Skills. With more than 12 years of teaching experience ,Mr. Pandya has authored 02 books ,and presented and published a number of research papers  in national and international conferences and journals. He has taught/ trained in numerous Universities /Institutions training more than 30, OOO peoples in Thinking Skills across world.Mr. Pandya has B.A.& M.A. in English Literature ,M.Phil in English Langauge teaching & Critical Thinking . He currently holds a position of vice president of Advancement at Critical Thinking solution company in Ontario, Canada.,and teaches at multiple colleges such as Conestoga and Sheridan college in Ontario,Canada.

        About the Workshop

       The workshop is organised by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir at The Department of English . 13 October and 14 October ,this two days workshop was organised . Prof. Milan Pandya is an Indian but now he lives at Kanada.

       At the first, our sir warmly welcomed him and then gave a very brief information about Milan sir and his achievements and also his work areas.

        At the starting ,Milan sir asked a question that,

    

    "who is socratic?"

    And then he gives us the information about socratic and his field and he also talk about two other people who is also known for philosophy.

       1). Socratic

       2). Aristotle

       3). Plato

    and then after he asks us another question that was, 

         "What is Criticism?"

     He gives us verious easy definition of that "what is criticism?" . That are like.,

  1). It's all about Logical, Rational and Scientific things.

  2). Thinking about thinking in order to improve  thinking means Criticism.

     

     And then after speaks a line that is .,

           

              "You are what you are because of thinking".

   

    And then after he explains the meaning of that line how much the importance of thinking in our life. He told that every person has different thinking skills . Thinking skills is one of the reason ,through which every person be defferenciate from each other.

      And then after he explains another line with the help of so many social-media examples .

      "If something is true what else to be true that".

      He explains the line, and gives a various examples which is related to that line. We should always have to think about it from various perspectives.

      

Example:- 1

Scene of the Lux Soup advertisement 

     this advertisement is about a 3 rupees discount on Lux Soup. Karina Kapoor  is working for that advertisement ,she selects for that advertisement because  she comes from the richest family and she also looks beautiful . So she can  be attracts people easily.

     

Example :- 2

A scene from starplus T.V. show "Yeh Hei Mohabbatein".

      In this scene , husband is helping to his wife to set a sari. But if  we see her critically, she is looking good and she can make a beautiful hairstyle and also do the make-up ,but she can't wear a sari . How?. If she can make hairstyle and do make-up than obvisiouly she can wear a sari easily.

Example :- 3

A scene is from twitter that is a well-known actor Satish Santosh.

      In this photo he twits that ' The very same Tiranga Dhwaj my mother had got during quit India Movement ,1942. But if we looks it carefully, at that time ,during 1942 the simbol is different ,there is a symbol of Charkha instead of the symbol of Ashok Chakra.

      And then after ,he talks about a stories of our history and myths.

    

He talks that ," we are story telling Animals".  

        Then after he talks about verious consperational stories.

For example:-

        1). Gandhiji and movements/prosperecy

       2). Taj Mahal and workers 

       3). Sushant Rajput's suicide 

     He passes comments and explains this stories critically .  And then after ,he talks us about the importance of critical thinking. And he also told us that everyone has their own story , because everyone's thinking style are different.

     

And then after saws us a quote.,

   "Your teacher might be wrong 

                       Learn to think yourself " 

                    - Too Te Ching ,By Lao The 600 BC.

     He teaches us that everytime your teachers are not right. They must be wrong ,so don't think that what they say that is always right.

      And then he talks about three aspects which are very useful in today's life . That are.,

     1). Writing

     2). Marketing

     3). Thinking

     At the topic of thinking,he teaches us that think logically in every aspects.

     And then he gives us the information about logic.

 -There are two types of logic.,

   1).Formal 

   2). Informal 

-  Formal logic includes Reasoning and Mathematics

- Informal logic includes aims of language, stories ,        histories ,social statments and everything.

       This workshop was very interesting and useful for us ,and in this workshop we learns about how to think, The things we should look critically, don't trusts blindly upon the stories and think critically upon it.

      At the end ,I am very thankful to Barad sir ,who organised this workshop for us and thanks a lot of Milan sir who teaches us about thinking skills in the various humorous way.

        

                            Thank     You