Enhancing Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills: Evan Evans' Defense Strategy
Join Evan Evans' defense team in creating an hourly schedule of his movements before his arrest, ensuring his rucksack contents are legal, presenting an eye witness statement, and cross-examining other teams' explanations. Evaluate plausibility to defend Evan effectively.
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Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills Induction Unit 6 6.1a
Scenario O Evan Evans has just been arrested. It is 8.30am. O He has been caught on the roof of Tesco s. O In his rucksack police have found 10 fillet steaks, 2 bottles of champagne, a passport in the name of Robert Williams, a hedge trimmer and a ruby necklace. O Evan has amnesia. He remembers watching the 6.oopm news yesterday evening while sat on the sofa at his friend s house. 2
Your brief O Evan Evans has hired you as his defence solicitor. O Come up with an hourly schedule of his movements that led up to his arrest. This covers sometime after 6pm until his actual arrest at 8.30am. O As his solicitor you are trying to ensure that he is not kept in custody. Therefore, you need to demonstrate that the content of Evan Evan s rucksack is both legal and convincing. 3
Constraints O You have 15 minutes to complete your time schedule. O Once your time is up, you will need to present your case to the rest of the group in order to convince them that your team s explanation is the most plausible. 4
Support of an eye witness O Having heard all of the explanations for Evan Evan s dilemma, you can now call on an eye witness to collaborate your explanation. O As a team decide on who you are going to ask and come up with a statement from your eye witness. It should be no longer than 200 words. O Each team to present this additional eye witness testimony. 5
Weight of evidence O Having heard each team s explanation and eye witness testimony, you are now able to carry out a cross examination of each team s account. O You have 10 minutes to come up with 2 questions for each team. The questions should be designed to show flaws in the other teams explanations. O Each team to nominate a representative(s) and take it in turns to be asked questions from the other teams. 6
Plausibility O In your own team, using your worksheet, rate each of the other teams according to the following criteria: O How plausible (believable) is each team s account? O How reliable is each team s eye witness? O How plausible (believable) is each team s eye witness account? O Which team has come up with the most convincing case for Evan Evans (excluding your own team)? 7
You have just been critically thinking! O In your teams, come up with a definition of critical thinking and write it down on your work sheet 8
What actually is Critical Thinking? O Click here 9
How can I improve my Critical Thinking skills? Are you prepared to ask yourself the following questions? O Do you prefer being given the correct answers rather than figuring them out yourself? O Do you like to think a lot about your decisions or do you rely only on gut feelings? O Do you review the mistakes you have made or do you just forget about them? O Do you like to be criticized? Rate yourself on these questions in your worksheet. 10
Individual Activity O Look at your worksheet. O How many puzzles can you complete within 15 minutes? 11
What is Problem Solving? O Problems consist of 3 components: O A goal state what you want to achieve. O A starting state where you are currently. O A set of available actions to move from the starting state to the goal state. O A problem isn't a problem if there are no obstacles stopping you from moving from the starting state to the goal state. 12
Answers Question 1 13
Answers Matchstick answers: Share your answers with other classmates. Are there any matchstick you have been unable to solve? How could you solve the remaining puzzles? 14
Using the GROWTH Model O An effective way to tackle a problem is to use GROWTH: O Goal: Goal: What do you want to achieve next? O Reality: Reality: What is the current situation? How have you carried out a similar goal before? Were you successful? O Options Options: What could you do? What did you do before and was this approach successful? O Will Will: What will you do now based on previous experience? O Timescale: Timescale: How long will it take? O How How: : How will you measure whether you are successful? This model will be useful in responding to your Welsh Bacc. Challenges 15
Why do I need to be able to Problem Solve? http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7396/8718123610_09e70f6d90.jpg 16
Take the OECD problem solving test to see your current level O http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/ 17
