Upon hearing Critical
Literacy subject on the first week of January, I kept thinking what is the
subject is all about? The question keep
lingered in my mind. Then I heard rumours from the seniors about this subject which is the toughest among all. I just
smiled although I am quite nervous about it. In this subject we need to be a
critical thinker and literally I have no idea on how I can become one. Somehow,
when I started to learn this subject, I realized that it plays an important
role in our life. Then my perception does change. To me it’s a kind of new
thing that I can’t wait to explore.
In critical literacy, it’s
all about on how you can be a creative or in profound word, a real critical
thinker. When I entered Critical Literacy class or we called it as CL taught by Madam Aidah, I learn skills that to
me, need to be implemented in CL which is thinking profoundly, logically and
innovative. I often struggle to find myself in being a critical thinker.
Somehow, I realized that the boundaries should not keep me apart from getting
an A in this subject. I should strive for it!
Although Critical Literacy
do trembles my heart at first as I’m not sure on how to come out with a good
idea and turn it into creative one but slowly I began to change. I know that to
succeed I need to make more practices as practice makes perfect. I do find
times where I’m struggling to understand the task because as a beginner, the
subject itself is a challenge for me to reveal the relevant ideas.
Through this subject, I can
apply all things that I learn for my usefulness. In our life, we can’t avoid
the situation where we need to analyse and come out with a good explanation. I
learn that this subject can give benefit to my own and others who learn it. The
most important thing is to try developing the ideas and dare to be different by
think out of the box. So why should I wait for it?
I really hope that this
subject will turned me into a better person as now I learned that thinking
critically can helps me to make a solution and develop ideas to solve problems.
As quoted from Christopher Hitchens, “The essence of the independent mind lies
not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” So by mastering CL, it can
changed on how I analyses and evaluates something and through this, it can
improved my ability to being a critical thinker.
