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Creative thinking concepts and tools

Vo Nguyen Son
vonguyenson@gmail.com

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 About myself

Employment history
 Apr. 14 – Present: Lecturer, Duy Tan University (DTU);
 Jan. 03 – Oct. 15: Lecturer, HCMC Univ. of Transport;
 Aug. 12 – Apr. 14: R&D Director, Chip Sang and Ashmanov Co., Ltd;
 Apr. 07 – Aug. 08: Training Manager, Saigon-ICT, HCMC;
 Jan. 02 – Jan. 03: Assistant Chief, Dept. of Electronics Engineering,
HaiDang Co., Ltd., HCMC
Education
 2008 – 2012: Ph.D. degree of Commun. & Inf. Sys. at Huazhong Uni.
of Sci. & Tech., China;
 2003 – 2005 & 1997 – 2002: Master & bachelor degrees of Electrical
& Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Uni. of Tech. HCMC, Vietnam.
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 About myself

Publications & projects

 1 book chapter;
 14 journals (13 ISI);
 22 conf. papers (one awarded a BPA at IEEE GLOBECOM 2016).
Projects
 Academic projects: 4;
 Industrial projects: 5.
Current research interests
 Q-Q-R efficiency video streaming over wireless networks;
 System and optimization models.

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Emotion of research

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 Emotion of research

Ready: prepared for what is going to happen;

Empty: containing nothing, lacking emotion, interest, or purpose;
Sorrowful: feeling, expressing, or causing terrible sadness;
Excited: very happy and enthusiastic because something good is going
to happen, especially when this makes you unable to relax, upset,
worried, or angry about something;
Alone: without anyone with you, lonely feeling that you have no friends
and that no one cares about you, without any help;
Rough: not smooth, difficult and with a lot of problems;
Consistent: not changing in behavior, attitudes, or qualities, continuing
or developing steadily in the same way;
Hopeless: if a situation is hopeless, it seems very unlikely to succeed
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 Get prepared

Laying the foundation

 Preparedness: related work, thoughts, questions, hypotheses,
assumptions, tools, links, colleagues, and advisors;
 Weak and strong aspects;
 Plan…
Never giving up
 Belief;
 Valor;
 Endurance.

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 How to read?

Categories
 For entertainment;
 For simple ideas or technical information;
 For comprehension, evaluation, and comparison;
 For study and learning new discipline.
What next after reading?
 Summarize by your own way (level-1: Re-presentation);
 Give an example or a picture (level-2: Interpretation);
 List clear (right) and unclear (wrong) things (level-3: Analysis);
 Link to what you did read before (level-4: Evaluation & Comparison);
 Find someone to discuss with (level-5: You are the author).
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 How to read?

What to note?
 Concepts and backgrounds;
 Hypotheses, assumptions;
 Problems, ideas, models, solutions;
 Key questions;
 Convincing conclusions;
 Presentation: vocabularies, sentences.
How to note?
 I do not know!

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 How to read?

What is creative thinking of reading?

 Not an activity, but an ability;
 Not a bored voice, but tempo and emotion;
 Not text, but audio/video;
 Not book/paper, but A DIALOGUE between you (student), yourself
(teacher), and the author.

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 Analytic thinking

Thinking?
 An opinion or set of ideas;
 Able to consider things carefully and understand what is important;
 The way/process of considering things or reacting to them.

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 Analytic thinking

Correct? Solve?

 It is quite correct if…;  No analysis;

 It is quite incorrect because…  No thinking;
 Change to correct;  No education;
 ....  …

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 Analytic thinking

The process of analytic thinking

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 Analytic thinking

The process of analytic thinking

Questions

Problems Ideas

Related work Motivations

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 Analytic thinking

The process of analytic thinking

Categories

Hypotheses, assumptions Inferences, conclusions

Methods, tools Pros and cons

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 Analytic thinking

The process of analytic thinking

Organization

Combination Optimization

Connection Solution

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 Creative thinking

What is creative thinking of analysis

 Multiple angles and assumptions?
 Apply to something else?
 Efficient enough?
 Closed or open solution?
 ???

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The art of question

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 The art of question

Bloom’s question matrix

What Who Where When How Why

Identify
Describe
Explain
Analyze
Evaluate
Predict

Ask for something you know?

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https://belmontteach.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/better-questioning-thinking-about-thinking
 The art of question

Questions of goal and objective

 What is the goal of the paper, authors?
 What is the objective of the proposed solution?
 Why do the authors apply this solution?
 Who need this solution?

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 The art of question

Questions about question

 Is this the best question raised in the paper?
 What does the question of the authors mean?
 Might I raise a question in this way… or that way…?
 How to answer to this question?

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 The art of question

Questions about information, experience, evidence,…

 Is the information/experience/evidence in this paper right?
 How to ensure that the information/experience/evidence is right?
 Is there any information/experience/evidence missed?
 How to investigate this information/experience/evidence?

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 The art of question

Questions about inferences and conclusions

 How to come to this inference/conclusion?
 Is there any better inference/conclusion?
 How the inference/conclusion changes if we change the
assumptions?

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 The art of question

Questions about assumptions

 Why do the authors assume that…?
 Is this assumption reasonable?
 Is the given assumption enough?

Assume that

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 The art of question

What is creative thinking of question?

 Questioning instead of answering;
 For deeper thinking;
 For accessing subconscious;
 A question for everything.

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 Critical thinking

Why?
 Analyze and evaluate for better achievement;
 Enable what to believe or do.
How?
 Raise the right questions & real problems clearly & accurately;
 Collect & evaluate related work to explain & prove efficiently;
 Propose convincing conclusions & solutions investigated by proper
criteria;
 Open thinking in an efficient and equal behavior.

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 Critical thinking

A:

B: NO!

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 Critical thinking

A critical thinker will not see

 All the things are in black and white;
 All the answers to all the questions are Y/N;
 All the things are separated from each other;
 All of their facts/ perspectives are the only relevant and sensible
ones;
 …

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 Critical thinking

What is creative of critical thinking?

CRITICAL THINKING CREATIVE THINKING
Analytic Generative
Convergent Divergent
Probability Possibility
Hypothesis testing Hypothesis forming
Objective Subjective
Linear Associative
Logic Intuition
Yes but Yes and
… …

 How to combine them together?

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https://staff.mq.edu.au/teaching/curriculum_assessment/critical_creative/differences
 How to write?

Write for?
 Entertainment;
 Speech;
 Information about a particular discipline/issue/problem,…;
 Convincing the readers of new and important viewpoint, conclusion,
solutions,…
Who write?
 Writer, scientist, student, journalist,…
Who read?
 All people, students, teachers, scientists,…

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 How to write?

Title
 Concise, clear, and enough sense;
This:
“Capacity Oriented Resource Allocation Algorithm for Device-to-Device
Communication in Mobile Cellular Networks”
Or this:
“Capacity Oriented Resource Allocation Algorithm for
Device-to-Device Communication in Mobile Cellular Networks”
Abstract
 Further describe the Title;
 Shortened version of Introduction section.

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 How to write?

Introduction
 Introduce the context of a related particular discipline and the title;
 Related work, problems, motivations, and solutions with some
terminology and examples if needed.
Main body
 Hypotheses, assumptions;
 Models;
 Methods, algorithms, solutions, proofs.
Results
 Simulations;
 Evaluations, discussions, and conclusions;
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 How to write?

Tools
 WinEdt;
 Gsv49w32 and gs871w32;
 Basic-miktex-2.9.4757.

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 How to write?

What is creative thinking of writing?

 Writing-to-Learn;
 A conversation of different voices;
 Drawing a picture by letters;
 Writing is power.

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