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Critical Thinking

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  What is critical thinking? Affect of critical thinking in student life? Critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.  Critical thinking helps students reflect and understand their points of view. A student can figure out how to make sense of the world with this skill. Enhancing a student's critical thinking skills is essential in a liberal education model, which beliefs in teaching students how to think and not what to think.  SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES INVOLVED IN CRITICAL THINKING Interpreting according to a framework Relating theory to practice Making a claim and supporting it Using appropriate evidence Making links between ideas Asking questions Evaluating Predicting Describing Synthesising Categorising Establishing caus...

A lecture by Professor Alessandro Melis

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  Today, I'm going to talk about a topic that's sure to pique your curiosity. Because of Professor Alessandro Melis, I thought it was an intriguing topic to discuss. He did an outstanding job of delivering the talk on the architecture of imperfection. It was interesting to think about how he came to the conclusion that the presence of flaws in architectural design might really contribute to the enhancement of a building's beauty and functionality. His ideas and novel approach to the subject matter held the audience's undivided attention throughout the presentation.  Professor Alessandro Melis is widely recognised as a leading authority in the world of architecture, and the insights that he has to offer regarding the topic are really intriguing. The audience was left with a lasting impression as a result of his thought-provoking and engaging talk, which was on the topic of the "architecture of imperfection." And connected aspects such as the human skull and a b...

EPC Workshop:Assemblage

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“EPC Workshop: Assemblage,” the title says all about what we’re going to talk about. A pretty interesting topic to talk about.   noun a collection or gathering of things or people. 1. a machine or object made of pieces fitted together  2. a work of art made by   grouping  together found We were asked to gather three objects. For me, I get them from outside. They are a bottle of Apple juice from the street, a screw found in a corner of a construction site, and a tree bunch from the park beside my house. And I prepared them before the class as we were asked to. As you see in the title, this workshop is really about assembling things. As the lecture proceeded we learned so many ways of assembling. Which I have listed below  ways of assemblage 1. Glueing 2. Using hole 3. Friction  4. Bending  8. Twisting  9. Wrapping  7. knotting 8. Lay over 9. Topping  10. Nailing 11. Screwing  12. Hooking 13.Hanging  13. Capping  14. Wieldi...

Colour workshop

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 As we’re approaching a new week we had a workshop called “ Color”. I was excited to learn something new. And our teachers made that in a unique way. Out of some ordinary color, we’ve learned how we can relate something ordinate to extraordinary. We're being asked to bring 2 A1 size papers each and put a single color on the paper that relates to a home object. And we did as our teacher asked us to do. This picture relates to what all of is did before we came for the class. The first thing that happen was to put all the paper on the floor with a VIBGYOR pattern. You can see in the picture and then we were divided into 3 different groups to sort things as a team After that ,this picture as we put a set of papers together to make a color pattern as well as color combinations. Basically in this class, we had 4 different sections one after another. I’ll be describing them in detail below. So in this first section, we cut those papers into 3 pecs each with measurements that we like. And ...