#CriticalThinking
Always interesting to see folks who don't provide links, citation, and alt text/image description getting more engagement on their toots than I'm able to get on ones where I do provide those things...
Esp because when the toot talks about bot-fueled disinformation. #CriticalThinking
Of course inequality and the absolute denigration of the other is the point for Netanyahu and co. Or if not the point, at least a bonus.
If Hamas was hiding a control base under an Israeli hospital and it was Israeli civilians at risk, would Israel think that attacking the hospital would be justified? If the answer is “no,” then the attack against Shifa hospital is also not justified.
#ceasefirenow #criticalthinking #ethics
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/civilian-according-military.html
📢In Episode 83 haben wir mit Prof. Gigerenzer vom Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung gesprochen.
Ein Gespräch über #Intuition, #Heuristiken, #kritischesDenken und #Risikokompetenz
"Occam's razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations with the smallest possible set of elements." "The principle gives precedence to simplicity: of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred." #criticalthinking @skepticism
Everyone knows I have #ADHD, right? And that I am a Critical Thinker? I like to try new things:
While others were Retweeting every post (and getting blocked for flooding my timeline) I was spending twenty minutes, squeezing a carefully curated post into 140 characters (old Twitter)
My screen name was consistent across the internet on every platform @NovaScotiaRasta but that with RT used 19 characters of 140. YIKES! Shortened it to @NSRasta
#KLOUT #trends #SM #Thread #CriticalThinking #Analysis
@unusual_whales
Hmm, maybe it was the lack of #housing to meet population growth for decades?
Think about scenarios where human judgment excels, like in diagnosing patients or creating persuasive legal arguments. #HumanJudgment #CriticalThinking https://typeshare.co/sannaankundi/posts/ai-replacing-human-jobs-a-logical-answer
Its 1965 until its 2013 - Ofcourse it's #StandUp
It treat my audience as instrument , sometimes i stop playing
this is the most confident,honest, arrogent, boldest acknowledgement i ve ever seen coming out of a performer and it ll be accused of taking good times for granted and may be even whining
also a brutal take on how bad is the quality of writing on sensitive problems by
#media is #dalits
tricky part of #freedomofspeech #criticalthinking
Seems I've been practising critical ignoring instinctively for a while now 🤔😎
“Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities. Critical ignoring is more than just not paying attention – it’s about practising mindful and healthy habits in the face of information overabundance.”
@theregister @CassandraZeroCovid
To be clear, what is this saying about the humans and the tasks they are completing?
https://www.wired.com/story/4-tips-spot-misinformation/
Four beginner-level tips for spotting misinformation on the internet.
The article goes into more depth on each topic listed below.
- Know Your Sources
- Check the Context
- Spot the Patterns
- Do Your Research
#News #Information #Misinformation #CriticalThinking #Research #Internet
𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗼: Creer que algo es cierto porque se desea que sea cierto, ignorando y negando evidencia que lo contradice
𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗼: Continuar trabajando en un proyecto inviable, pues ya se ha invertido mucho tiempo /dinero /esfuerzo como para abandonar.
#argumentación #falacia #pensamientocritico #criticalthinking
Some people don’t know themselves, who they are, or why they are.
https://www.superversive.co/blog/think-your-thoughts-feel-your-feelings
#ProductManagement #ChangeManagement #writing #CriticalThinking #KnowThyself
Printed information in brick and mortar #libraries is more carefully vetted than what is found on the #internet. And, anyway, persons without the #CriticalThinking skills for separating wheat from the chaff probably do not spend a lot of time in libraries. But many persons with poor critical thinking skills do spend a lot of time on the internet where #misinformation is abundantly available. That may not be a good thing for society.
Truth, value, & justice are a partisan game for money & power in which you are just a pawn interacting with other pawns. Anyone who knows it & keeps it up is just wearing a big "I'm Bad" badge.
What is the issue & why does it supercede other issues? #criticalthinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%80%93American_War
The rational mind produces an understanding of nature through evidence-based knowledge which leads to a science of interconnectedness, peace and love.
The irrational #Republican mind conjures up gods and religion out of fear and ignorance which leads to division, hatred and war.
#politics #science #criticalthinking #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #rationalism #life #vote
No religion needed. #SecularHumanist #compassion #empathy #love #criticalthinking
“What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” is an important question few people ask themselves or anyone else.
#AI #winning #CriticalThinking https://www.linkedin.com/posts/spanini_ai-productmanagement-humanism-activity-7132463854793490432-BElb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
Disinformation and misinformation is rife about the current war in the Holy Land: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/israel-palestine-interview-series-gaza-viral-disinformation-social-media/
#megansquire #splc #southerpovertylawcenter #gaza #war #israelhamaswar #israelgazawar #palestine #israel #disinformation #misinformation #socialmedia #motherjones #henrycarnell #medialiteracy #criticalthinking
#ICYMI Been thinking about this short documentary lately.
A helpful reminder to take a step back, from time to time, and examine *why* the news and the messaging you're receiving exists. Are you being herded? Manipulated? Persuaded? Is there something about the story that's trying to undermine or bypass your critical thinking or install a bias?
Practice healthy skepticism, and afford yourself the grace of changing your mind when something doesn't add up.
#LetterOfTheWeek +1
🇸🇬My PSLE results will be out soon, but I know they don’t define me
"Many scholarships .. look beyond #academic achievements. They look at the students’ social interactions, how eloquently they express their opinions & ideas, how deep their #understanding of a subject is, .. & their #criticalthinking. Marks r not a ticket to success. #Attitude, diligence, resilience & understanding r equally important. So to students everywhere, marks do not define you"
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-my-psle-results-will-be-out-soon-but-i-know-they-don-t-define-me
There is a lot of talk about addressing today's ecological issues in a way that achieves "justice."
But unless we start with the reality that we 1) live on a finite planet that is 2) in ecological overshoot as well as 3) incredibly inequitable, we won't have the right foundation for exploring what "justice" in the Anthropocene might entail.
In the simple, yet profound declaration ‘I think, therefore I am’, René Descartes captured a fundamental truth about human existence and consciousness.
It challenges us to be mindful of our thoughts, for in them lies the essence of our existence. ‘I think, therefore I am’ is not just a statement about being, it’s a call to conscious living and thinking.
#ithinkthereforeiam #educateyourself #criticalthinking #knowledge #learnhebrew #languages #hebrew #empowerment
@Shkshkshk @actuallyautistic
Disclaimer:Always use a tether when exploring. Don’t repel without a harness. Into a rabbit hole I mean #thinking #Criticalthinking
Cultivating a #criticalthinking identity not only prepares us to create #sustainable and #democratic societies, but also allows us to live with greater #freedom and authenticity.
There is major movement-building potential in traits that serve us in our personal lives and in our collective efforts to shape our societies.
Social movements that help their participants cultivate these traits harness a deep source of power.
I think we have yet to really tap into it.
Valuable perspective on the need to develop student #criticalthinking, especially new contexts, for example #AI and #ChatGPT . You really can't just "cancel," but help students confront. Congress could investigate via academics whose disciplines require skill in content generation. (Long ago, I offered a lesson on why the National Enquirer was not a source for academic papers!) As a History Professor, This Is How I Use AI in Class https://hyperallergic.com/855980/as-a-history-professor-this-is-how-i-use-ai-in-class/ #AI, #ArtificialIntelligence, #Featured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9lGAf91HNA
A friendly reminder that not all voices are deserving of deference. In some instances employing a "both sides" approach is actually an attack on tolerance.
Think critically, use data and follow the science. ❤️👩🏽🔬
@wikimediafoundation @wikipedia #science #data #criticalthinking
And here's our short 5-minute video about mereological fallacies (like "Your brain chose this video"), where Dr. Carrie Figdor makes another appearance in our series:
@Brains #neuroscience #science #FolkPsychology #logic #language #philosophy #philosophyOfScience #CriticalThinking
highlighting #criticalthinking in #ailiteracy - an important angle for librarians teaching #InformationLiteracy https://www.choice360.org/podcasts/episode-360/
And so it's time for another round of #CriticalThinking with my Pharos Tutors @PharosTutors course officially starting on Monday!
If you're already enrolled, then your first round of lesson notes is in your Student Area now.
And if not? Nab one of the final few places here: #research #FamilyHistory https://www.pharostutors.com/critical-thinking-approaches-for-genealogy
Book writing update 1: Why we must develop our "critical thinking identity" to lay the groundwork for sustainable and democratic societies:
"We must come to see the active pursuit of knowledge about ourselves and about the world as key to who we are, so that both can be transformed."
#criticalthinking #climatecrisis #democracy #activism #systemchange #complexity #education
"The rarity implied by a low p-value may tempt you to infer too much, especially when the p-value is less than a conventional threshold like 5% (a.k.a., p = 0.05). However, a 5% probability outcome is not as rare as you might think: the probability of a fair coin landing heads in at least 59 out of 100 coin flips is just 4%."
That's one of my 2023 updates to my post that attempts to help people understand p-values: https://byrdnick.com/archives/15276/the-meaning-of-statistical-significance-and-of-p-values
Letzte Woche habe ich meiner Tochter erklärt dass ich alle Informationen ausblende, die
-"Ärzte Fassungslos" oder
-"was Anwälte unbedingt geheim halten wollen" enthalten.
Gestern ging eine Tasse zu Bruch. Meine Tochter kräht laut durch die Wohnung "Papa wäre bestimmt fassungslos und Anwälte möchten nicht dass er weiss dass wir die Tasse zerbrochen haben". 😏
So ein verdammter Dalek!
#meinetochter #clickbait #Vaterstolz #zuschlau #criticalthinking
(2) It also doesn't follow from the existence of a group's average inaccuracy/bias that every individual in that group exhibited that inaccuracy/bias. Even if the vast majority of the group is accurate/unbiased, a few people being inaccurate/biased in one direction will make the group's average deviate from the accurate/unbiased group members.
@Aileen22 einen Mädel dass diese Frage stellt, mit Vorbereitungsfrage. Kann ich der mit dieser Antwort kommen? Ich fürchte nicht.
My website has been up & down and under moderately heavy attack since publishing this and I really do wonder why. I just talk about #propaganda and how it leads people down #extremism and #conspiracy theory rabbit holes. I think that it's important that we talk about how we use #SocialMedia and how it can exploit our #mentalhealth. It is important to encourage #CriticalThinking and #FactChecking
I've plugged it before and I'll plug it again:
https://www.rob.cat/technology/opinion/2023/11/11/2023-propaganda-and-social-media.html
You invented a position to attack or left it unsourced making a non-argument. #criticalthinking
Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of #Tobacco Industry Tactics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/
"Within the industry, marketing experts had developed a powerful notion of social engineering, what early public relations theorist Edward Bernays had called the “engineering of consent.”"
Additionally, in the context of AI, companies like #Microsoft's #GitHub try to create #FOMO in people: "Oh no, others are 55% more productive using AI! I don't want to be left behind!"
2/2
Did you understand what I intended to say? Did I understand what you meant to say?
Not what you or I think those words *should* mean, or some arbitrary dictioneer has said it means ... was my or your utterance understood the way it was intended?
I'm trying to make this my default analysis of communication failures, and of me or you getting upset about what you or I have said.
Bear with me; being pedantic is a long and hard-to-break habit.
#communication #CriticalThinking #linguistics #philosphy #TryingToBeBetter
Spoiler: The so-called "Stockholm Syndrome" is - drumroll, please 🥁🥁🥁 - MISOGYNIIIIIST!! 🎉 🎉 🎉
TL;DW: There doesn't actually seem to be such a thing as "Stockholm Syndrome"; the actual strategy is called appeasement & it's a very effective survival tool for hostages. The ficticious "syndrome" is basically a way of taking mostly female victims' agency away from them & patronize & infantilize them.
I hate how despite some people openly acknowledge that there’s something seriously wrong with our society, they still deny the real causes of those problems #Politics #USA #uspolitics #rant #criticalthinking
Try to look past the label and read the tenets. Common themes? #Empower those closest to the level of the action. Share #leadership where possible to encourage #criticalthinking and #innovation.
Now, for those in the #crisismanagement and #emergencymanagement sectors, how do these ideas translate to our context?
Developing a #CriticalThinking identity is an ongoing process, and it doesn’t make us immune to dealing with problems or making bad choices. It just gives us the best chance of avoiding the problems we can avoid, and for those we can’t, making a better decision than we would have without a critical appraisal of the situation.
A society will undermine its own longer-term prospects unless enough of its citizens possess this identity.
My favourite thing about doing speaking engagements is challenging traditional views that people haven't critically considered because they are so ingrained.
I talk, people listen because, you know, it's a presentation or panel, and they have a little think.
Afterwards they come up and instead of disagreeing because of in the moment stress, they ask me to elaborate, they ask more questions, we discuss.
And the absolute best bit is when it all clicks into place and they realise that after thinking critically about the topic that the traditional method is terrible, and what I've done is improve the industry by one person.
Slowly but surely, if I keep going, one person becomes two becomes three and give it a few years and that terrible traditional tactic will be gone.
Change is slow and hard, especially when it's trying to change an established belief, but it is possible. And it's worth it.
#phishing #speaker #infosec #securityawareness #security #criticalthinking
Because Christians are taught to expect #persecution (and essentially wear it as a badge of honor), they see it everywhere - even where it’s not. #fundamentalism #radicalism #extremism #exchristian #criticalthinking #nullifidian #SecularHumanism
Mike Johnson embodies evangelicals' embattlement strategy. It may be backfiring. https://religionnews.com/2023/11/06/mike-johnsons-embodies-evangelicals-embattlement-strategy-it-may-be-backfiring/
für Schnellentschlossene (Anmeldung bis 7. Nov. möglich):
INVITATION
Online Workshop for Teachers on ‘Media Literacy and Teaching Critical Thinking”
Thursday, 9 November 2023 (15:00-18:00, online)
The United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna, in cooperation with the Slovak NGO “Slovak Debate Association” and the Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems, cordially invites you to an online workshop for teachers on ‘Media Literacy and Teaching Critical Thinking’ on Thursday, 9 November 2023, from 15:00 to 18:00 hrs.
The training course consists of three parts:
Introduction to Critical Thinking
Everyone makes mistakes in thinking and sometimes takes in information automatically without much thought. The goal of this training is to recognize cognitive biases, understand why they happen, why we need critical thinking, and what it actually means to think critically.
Media literacy
Media literacy training will show how the spread of misinformation works, how to distinguish reputable from non-credible media, or ways to verify news and debunk conspiracy theories and hoaxes. We will also highlight the phenomenon of opinion bubbles and echo chambers that are created in the online environment. We will show how to have a constructive and tolerant debate, both online and in person.
How to teach critical thinking
Critical thinking cannot be imparted through lecture or taught by rote memorization. On the contrary, young people need to be educated to it. In this training we will introduce the principles of leading to critical thinking and examples of good practice on how to make it happen.
The workshop will be held in English by Richard Vaško from the NGO Slovak debate association www.sda.sk
Kindly register by 7 November 2023 by sending an email to: Irene Hoeglinger-Neiva / UNIS Vienna, irene.hoeglinger-neiva@un.org
#criticalthinking #PolitikEdu #online #medialiteracy #uno #unis #wien #vienna
No dia 10 de Novembro, na Universidade de Évora, acolheremos o colóquio "Crítica da Civilização Tecnológica e Trabalho Humano", organizado por João Príncipe, José Luís Garcia e Diogo Silva da Cunha.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/critica-civilizacao-tecnologica/
#Histodons #Philosophy #Technology #AI #Labour #CriticalThinking #Civilization #TechAndLabour #PhilosophyOfTechnology #Tecnologia #Trabalho #Civilização
One key takeaway from studying how to teach #CriticalThinking: Our skill depends largely on possessing subject-specific knowledge (https://www.aft.org/ae/fall2020/willingham). For example, everyday people can only evaluate the plans of a technocratic politician if they know enough about technological feasibility.
Critical thinking is not simply about innate ability. The better you become at learning and the more effort you spend diving into a topic, the more capable you’ll be of thinking critically about it.
Thanks to @DailyNous for posting and especially to Alex for contextualizing the initial claim about argument mapping (from the pull quote):
TLDR; there are least 4 problems with the claim that "Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods".
#CriticalThinking #argumentMapping #Logic #UX #software #webDev #edu #higherEd #teaching #PhilSci #Epistemology #Philosophy
"I get annoyed when people quote me just so they can appear smart especially when it's a cherry picked quote." - Einstein
Just reminding people to both check the quote and don't just quote someone to appear smart. Hero worshipping someone is letting someone else do your thinking for you.
It's a funny photo but of course, fake and it's doing the rounds on the Fediverse.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/road-runner-tunnel-crash-rumor/
This is one of those cases where one can still get a good chuckle out of the possibility which is often counter to critical thinking.
Anything that makes you laugh or happy can be propaganda/misinformation/disinformation too if one does not take the time to verify.
Presenting the photo as fake does not make it less funny either!
#CriticalThinking #Propaganda #Misinformation #Disinformation #Ottawa
@realcaseyrollins
Do you believe that #CriticalTheory is a symptom of #CriticalThinking? 🤨
🚨 Free book alert!
Once $195, the Handbook of Rationality (@MIT, 2021) now has an #openAcess (free) digital version: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11252.001.0001
It can be downloaded as one file — all 879 pages and 300MB — or chapter-by-chapter for offline reading.
You can also read it online — does anyone actually prefer that?
#book #deal #freeStuff #JDM #DecisionScience #Neuroscience#CompSci #Psychology #Epistemology #Logic #PhilMind #Ethics #Economics #CriticalThinking
As someone who was a military-age male on 9/11, it’s vaguely triggering to see the complete loss of #nuance, #CriticalThinking, and motivated conflation.
People are losing their perspectives and it’s demonstrating how we got to be this way.
A bunch of zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in real-time.
16yo son: There are twice as many hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in our solar system.
Me: Woahhh, that’s amaz…wait a minute. 🤨 Ohhhh, right.
Always remember. One person's education is another person's propaganda.
An attempt to #introduction in addition to my homepage (in finnish):
A (re)tired academic professional interested in thinking, knowledge and understanding, and the obstacles for such at any level. Epistemic security, for instance, is a serious concern for me, https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-10/epistemic-security-report_final.pdf
My intellectual toolkit stems mostly from philosophy of science, epistemology, and teaching critical thinking at university-level. Deep learning and inquiry has been a constant lifeline for me, which a slowly progressing AD is (not so mercifully) severing. My physical toolkit stemming from a few martial arts and long hikes is eroded by other ailments.
I tend to listen carefully, think and respond slowly, forget way too easily, value silence, and have no more time for identity-politics or other ego-defensive pastimes. What I don't understand is why all the pain near and far hasn't stolen my incongruence-based sense of humour yet? 🤔
#esittely #introduction #philosophy #epistemology #ai #psychology #thinking #knowledge #understanding #criticalthinking #old
As #education increases, #superstition decreases. Religions that encourage belief in “the supernatural” are superstitious. #criticalthinking #ReligiousTrauma Meet the 'nones': An ever increasing group across Europe with little to no religious affiliation | Euronews https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/08/meet-the-nones-an-ever-increasing-group-across-europe-with-little-to-no-religious-affiliat
@dancinyogi Sit on hands. A lot. #CriticalThinking
Former Christians are getting tripped up by these 10 thought processes #Christians #CriticalThinking
https://www.rawstory.com/former-christians-are-getting-tripped-up-by-these-10-thought-processes/
New post on my Substack, Sociological Infatuation.
What is the sociologist's duty in a world of publishing cartels, paywalls, and AI generated gibberish taking over the internet?
https://angolathree.substack.com/p/the-sociologists-duty
@sociology #sociology #academic #teaching #pedagogy #communitycollege #research #criticalthinking
@Loukas Yes. "Critical Thinking" Always always always SIT ON YOUR HANDS until information is confirmed. Propaganda goes to the emotion not the rational part of our mind. Especially if we *want it to be true*.
A sadly accurate description. #Trump #fraud #conartist #liar #criticalthinking #exchristian #reality
ONCE AGAIN: when we abandon #criticalthinking in favour of #magicalthinking we become vulnerable to all manner of conspiracy theories, cults, and #supernatural religious beliefs. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/04/escape-from-the-rabbit-hole-the-conspiracy-theorist-who-abandoned-his-dangerous-beliefs
Thinking Clearly Revisited #CriticalThinking #BayesianThinking https://www.mguhlin.org/2023/09/thinking-clearly-revisited.html #mgshare
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Many formerly normal people get sucked down rabbit holes & #radicalized because they spend excessive amounts of time online. Those who have already traded in #criticalthinking for a #magicalthinking (AKA religious Believers) are also easy prey for #extremism. CNN Explores QAnon Family Members' Trauma: 'These People Are Lost' https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-qanon-anderson-cooper-trump-maga-jfk-jr/
Very good read and understandable point of view.
#oil #crysis #price #open #fossilfuels #politics #energytransition #criticalthinking
https://mises.org/wire/oil-price-shock-direct-consequence-interventionism
@MoiraEve and if I could piggyback, another great book of like intention is _The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark_, by Carl Sagan and co-authored by Ann Druyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
#science #criticalthinking #evidence #scientificmethod #education #STEM
I liked this article on masking. No the Cochrane report does not mean masks don't work.
“Showing that N95s stop particles in mannequins only proves that they can plausibly help, but if people hate wearing them, or don’t wear them properly, or only have access to cloth masks, etc, then the actual intervention will not be as effective,” Meyerowitz-Katz said.
@mekkaokereke Questions I ask are, 'Who decides?' followed by 'Who decides who decides?' #seatsatthetable #criticalthinking
WHY FORGIVENESS IS THE F-WORD:
-Hijacked by religion
-Weaponized by abusers to enforce compliance
-Victim blaming "Why can't you just forgive?"
Instead, ACCEPT REALITY by asking:
What happened? Who did it? Is it a pattern?
Then use that knowledge to make appropriate choices - including whether to give the guilty party continued access to your life. #forgiveness #abuse #ReligiousTrauma #wisdom #reality #criticalthinking #exchristian #psychology #counselor
"It's part of being human to want to have easy answers, to want to be part of something bigger than yourself."
#DianeBenscoter, How to Become a Cult Leader
"Cult beliefs are often a house of cards. If you were to discredit one piece of it, the whole thing will come down. Therefore, it's really important to shut down any kind of critical thinking. "
#AshaRangappa , How to Become a Cult Leader
@janriemer I think most people don’t like, or want to think for themselves. They’d rather outsource this to the masses.
Seneca used to say
“Do you ask me what you should regard as especially to be avoided? I say, crowds; for as yet you cannot trust yourself to them with safety.”
And I agree with him. Developing self, and critical thinking, is the one things you can do to improve your life and well being.
Seeing a rumour about WD-40 being banned in Canada. *SIT ON YOUR HANDS PEOPLE* Verify confirm before simply repeating/boosting etc.
https://files.wd40.com/pdf/WD-40+Aerosol+CAN+GHS+SDS+(Button+Top)+(11-21-19).pdf Top of page 5 exemption
Rhetoric is not evidence.
Putting #AI Stories through the #CriticalThinking Grinder: A Prelude https://www.mguhlin.org/2023/09/putting-ai-stories-through-critical.html #mgshare #education #teaching
@EU_Commission
Most teachers have not been trained in - or to teach - #CriticalThinking.
Difficult to teach #Misinformation effectively without this grounding.
Critical Thinking should be part of a child's education from their very first years of school. Yes, that may involve questioning Santa Claus, but their vulnerability & propensity for ideological capture later on begins here.
Our information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine.
Needed: more accurate representations of the scientific consensus.
My new piece: Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) https://healthydebate.ca/2023/08/topic/bothsidesism-scientific-consensus-matters/ via
@healthydebate
#Scicomm #science #misinformation #criticalthinking #publichealth #climatechange #gmo #VaccinesWork
@sentient_water @markusl @hosford42 @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity Read these before the next time you hear from NTs or read Wikipedia articles that aren't about communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipulation_%28psychology%29#George_K._Simon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle#Grice%27s_maxims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorder#Cluster_B https://youtube.com/@TheraminTrees?si=FBrOvRGpWgQ28-1V
#advice #actuallyautistic #criticalthinking #medialit #medialiteracy
Quick conspiracy theory-defeating tip: Look at rich people.
If cancer was secretly cured? Why do rich people die of it?
Adrenochrome-induced youth? Why does Rupert Murdoch look like a peanut?
If psychology is Fake Capitalism Stuff, why do rich people have psychiatrists, mental illnesses etc?
COVID hoax? Why did rich and powerful people rush to get vaccinated?
Always ask who benefits, and who ISN'T taking advantage.
Skeptics with a K: Episode #361
In this extended episode, Mike looks at the recent 82 minute video from the YouTuber Medlife Crisis about the amazing power of the placebo effect. Meanwhile, Alice and Marsh stumble upon an injured man and step in to help.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
https://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/skeptics-with-a-k/episode-361
Don't just teach your children to read...Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
#GeorgeCarlin #reading #books #fiction #novels #authors #writers #CriticalThinking @bookstadon
#K12 US/CA #STEM resource blitz week for #teachers.
August 4-10
Resource Guide.
August 4-6
#EarthScience & #ClimateChange classroom resources + #PBL
August 7-8
#Math #STEMeducation #STEAMeducation #Pedagogy #CriticalThinking #DesignThinking
#PersonalizedLearning
August 9-10
#Biology #Chemistry #Physics #Coding #AI #Robotics
Teacher resources are now solely posted on this masto timeline via newscience101. We will not be x-posting during 23-24 school yr.
⭐ We are looking for educators interested in creating classroom resources for use with our upcoming critical thinking games. We will publish 1 or 2 critical thinking games in the fall semester. Target ages will be middle & high school.
We will pay for their time (we cannot pay much but do want to honor their time and expertise).
@mguhlin
There will be dedicated #k12 #lessonplans #curriculum #edtech #data #edtools #pedagogy #teacherchat , etc all week long. Many STEM topics will be covered with strong emphasis on teaching #earthscience #climate #math and #criticalthinking.
Right. It's logically incoherent & he didn't say it.
@emilymbender so it was never about truth, but about avoiding critical reactions from the users? Apparently, #CriticalThinking does not please everybody.
Students Must Learn to Think Critically. It’s Up to Us to Teach Them How. - EdSurge News #CriticalThinking https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-08-12-students-must-learn-to-think-critically-it-s-up-to-us-to-teach-them-how #mgshare
⭐ Excited to see the video games created by the Finalists for the Critical Thinking Game Design Challenge!
The entries are coming in today and we will be sharing them with our wonderful judges next week.
🌐 Details about the contest and bios for the judges at the contest website: https://CriticalThinker.games
#CriticalThinking #PublicHealth #VideoGames #ViolencePrevention @communicationscholars @stopTDV @CriticalThinkingGames @edutooters
I'm deeply interested in #SelfRegulatedLearning and #CriticalThinking so I encourage work like the article linked here. And I like that they used a performance-based assessment of CT. I share the authors' concerns about measuring SRL with a survey, even when it targets a specific task just completed. I'm just not sure we get a lot from such surveys. Measuring SRL is tough.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2023.2227207
#education #psychology #EducationalPsychology @edutooters @psychology
Carl Sagan voiced concerns about pseudoscientific beliefs, like astrology, dominating media over genuine science. He saw it as a sign of a society lacking science appreciation. Sagan championed science education and critical thinking to distinguish real science from pseudoscience. Let's make science literacy a priority for a functioning democracy.🔭 #CarlSagan #ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking
If it's of interest to anyone interested in literacy: I'm thinking about recording my lecture series on research methods/critical thinking and uploading them to YouTube so they're publicly available; I've never liked the idea of keeping the things I can help folks with behind a paywall, especially since these topics are fundamental to working with complex information. I'll share them here when I get them underway. (prob later this summer)
Today I found Deena Weisberg's (and David Sobel's) #freeBook about how kids can develop scientific thinking! A (concernig) take-away: not all pedagogy is equal.
Traditional #teaching may prevent kids from becoming as reflective as "inquiry-based" approaches.
I don't know what it is to be a bat or a crow for that matter but crows hold grudges. https://www.livescience.com/23090-crows-grudges-brains.html
So perhaps crows share schadenfreude with us and we are no more advanced than the common corvidae. Maybe that's what Nietzsche was really talking about with his Übermensch, not a super human in the physical sense but a human that could rise above the primitive brain to think more rationally...
Duped by association?
"individuals of lower cognitive-ability level [we]re more susceptible to #misinformation in general, [but] those of higher cognitive-ability level [we]re more susceptible to associatively inferred misinformation. Different from the idea that misinformation is attractive to “lazy” people, our study implies that...."
Sample sizes of 700-1500 mTurk workers: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/22166
#Logic #CriticalThinking #DecisionScience #CogSci #SocialMedia #Journalism #DualProcessTheory
I just noticed this book "“Raising Critical Thinkers” by Julie Bogart" PZ mentioned it. hrmmm I'll have to buy a copy methinks. I'm trying to add to our critical thinking library on centreforinquiry.ca
So comments welcome. 🙂
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire
📚💡 With my small company #Illumniscate, I create transformative #education journeys. With a passion for #psychology (my academic background), I blend effective #science, #safespaces, #playfulness, #storytelling, #history, #criticalthinking & #activecitizenship.
Open to #erasmusplus collabs!
ATM finishing the 4M Storytelling #project — a visible thinking method to explore #CreativeExpression, #Media & #Advocacy, #Participation, and #Fundraising. Follow the #4mStorytelling hashtag for updates! 🌟
“don’t follow people because you agree with their answers, follow them because you respect the intellectual integrity that they bring to their questions.”
adam grant, you are not so smart podcast 231 https://youarenotsosmart.com/2022/05/01/yanss-231-adam-grants-advice-for-becoming-better-at-thinking-about-your-own-thinking-so-you-can-know-what-you-dont-know/ #criticalThinking #internet #adamGrant #yanss