1. LEARNING OUTCOME ASSESSMENT I
Design Your Life
Mai Alfozan
Mariam Tanveer
Noura Alhumaidhi
LEARNING OUTCOME ASSESSMENT I
Chapter 8
Critical thinking
SEC 203
Course number 2111
To : Dr . Khawla Kittaneh

2. Outline Fate or Freedom : Which Do You Choose?
Implications for the Design of Your Life
Reading Backwards
Social forces , the Mass media , and our Experience
Facing Contradictions and Inconsistencies
Recognizing the Dual Logic of Experience
Fate or Freedom : Which Do You Choose?

4. Fate or Freedom : Which Do You Choose
Free will
Pre – determined events

5. The Very Idea of Freedom
Designing one’s life –
Life typically lived or might be lived
By change we can live ideal life despite of they way people or society forces us too
Life long learners – Skilled thinkers who recognize the different roles that learning can play in life. They are critical thinkers to design their life to the best.
Active learners – Prone to exploring and learning things
Passive learners – Go by the flow and are less motivated

6. Domains of knowledge Explained by thinking Illustrated by thinking
Analyzed by thinking
Applied by thinking
Transformed by thinking
Evaluated by thinking
Synthesized by thinking
Learned by thinking
Discovered by thinking
Organized by thinking

7. Recognizing the Dual Logic of Experience
Objective factor –
Experience is a reciprocal relationship between two factors –
Part of experience we don’t generate
We have no control
The mind only captures the important stuff
Subjective factor
Our interest
Something happening in ones mind and not the external world

8. Self Deception, Insight, and Analyzed Experiences
Defense mechanisms : A way to falsify , distort , misconceive, twist or deny reality. – Freud
Critical analysis involves to interpret effectively
Unanalyzed experiences are the combinations of rational and irrational thoughts
Analyze carefully to gain positive experience

9. Facing Contradictions and Inconsistencies
Quality and significance depends on how much our analyses enable us to face our own inconsistencies and contradictions .
What links the experiences ,as analyzed products of the mind ,is insight .
To become more rational it is not enough to give meaning to our experience .
Many experiences are more or less charged with irrational meanings.

10. Facing Contradictions and Inconsistencies
Stereotypes , prejudices , narrow-mindedness delusions and illusions of various kinds are sometimes rampant in our thinking
The process of developing insights is part and parcel of separating experiences into their rational and irrational dimensions , those forming meta experiences (higher order experiences) .
Only when one gains analyzed experiences of working and reasoning one’s way out of prejudice can one gain the insight essential to self-honesty.
To develop essential insights , we must create a collection of analyzed experiences that represent to us intuitive models.
These model experiences must be charged with meanings for us.

11. Facing Contradictions and Inconsistencies
In analyzing experience we should ask at least three questions:
What are the raw facts ?what is the most neutral description of the situation?
What interests ,attitudes, desires, or concerns do I bring to the situation ?
How am I conceptualizing or interpreting the situation in light of my points of view ? How else might it be interpreted ?

12. Social forces , the Mass Media , and our Experience
There are powerful social forces that act through the mass media to influence the “meanings” we give to things .
The news media , for one , exert significant influence on how we conceptualize the world
The consequences for the well being of people are enormous, we cannot be critical thinkers and accept the influence that the mass media continually fosters
We must decide for ourselves what we think , feel , and want.
We must learn how not to be drawn into media-engineered experiences , how to see through them , how to avoid the manner in which they insinuate images into our minds .

14. THANK YOU