What is critical thinking? It is the ability of thinking in a high level and different way that will guide to explore, calculate and create a solution for any situation.
There are critical thinkers every where and every place like: Parents, doctors, professors and lawyers. These critical thinkers have got skills that made them special such as: listing to others conversation carefully and be able to respond for any question. Looking for evidence and supporting your ideas, and also looking and searching for every that seems interesting.
Critical thinking is very important in our life because it plays a major role in changing our life style and also can helps to improve the technology.
There are 6 different levels of thinking in BLOOM'S TAXONOMY theory. Knowledge which is identifying, naming, reacting is the basic of all levels. Second, Comprehension which means understanding and paraphrasing, like translating a text from Arabic to English. After that comes Application, and that when we use both knowledge and comprehension, like solving a problem. Then there is Analysis, this level of thinking needs to exam things or even break them down. After that, Synthesis which considers a high level of thinking because we need to recreate and redesign thing in a different way. Finally, Evaluation which is the highest level of thinking. Who ever get to this level have to be able to critique, assay, and form an opinion.
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