Uncover the Art of Critical Literacy

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.