#CriticalThinking
"April Fool's Day is the one day of the year when people critically evaluate information before accepting it as true."
#AprilFoolsDay #April1 #AprilFools #Information #CriticalThinking #NotTheRestOfTheYear
#Wisdom from Mahatma Gandhi
#Quote #CriticalThinking #MahatmaGandhi #Gandhi #Truth #SelfDiscovery #AltText
And in Australia we wake up to April Fools Day! Unfortunately, the only day of the year when everyone is extra critical of what the read on the internet.
#AprilFoolsDay #AprilFools #TheCakeIsALie #internet #CriticalThinking
I had a terrific interview with The Thinking #atheist (Seth Andrews) today for the Divorcing Religion #podcast. I will be sure to let you know when it drops. Every interaction I have had with him has been positive. I sure do appreciate those who have managed to divorce religion and embrace #reality. It can feel isolating and scary at first, but intensely liberating as we begin to use #criticalthinking and build our safe, #secular support networks.
Before #AI was the hot topic, there was #DeepFake. Remember to always check your sources, especially when the content aligns with your point of view. #CriticalThinking #ConfirmationBias
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/31/nashville-shooting-hoax-online/
#information is the reduction of uncertainty. Such a clear and elegant description. #CriticalThinking
I'm surprised to see so many people trusting the Communist Party of China more than the American government. It's a testament to the effectiveness of propaganda and disinformation campaigns. We need to be vigilant and critical of all sources of information to make informed decisions. #propaganda #disinformation #criticalthinking #machinethought
👏 Congratulations to the Critical Thinking Game Finalists!
We are excited to have Finalists representing Canada, Pakistan, UK, and USA.
They have until June 30, 2023 to submit their Critical Thinking Games for judging.
Stay tuned for details!
#CriticalThinking #IndieGame #GameDesign #GameDev #PublicHealth #VideoGames
Teaching students to think critically is important to countering rampant misinformation. Do you agree?
https://www.knkx.org/education/2023-03-26/digital-literacy-can-the-republic-survive-an-algorithm
#digitalliteracy #criticalthinking #literacy #reading #books
This Friday, March 31, we’re excited to welcome designer and lettering artist, David Jon Walker ✨
Join us to learn about David’s process and inspiration for his 🔥 thought-provoking 🔥 lettering works.
This event is free and online ❤️
Details and registration are on our website:
🔗 https://typeelectives.com/events
Check out and follow David's work:
https://www.instagram.com/davidjonwalker/
#community #criticalthinking #love #onlineevent #lectureseries #type #design #education
#science #criticalthinking
I've been removed from my family for so long that it's shocking to go back and find myself drowning in their 'woo' language of science denialism, religion, and conspiracies. It struck me that so much of everything they say is just constructed purely out of anecdotes and story telling, without any concern for authenticity or validity of their statements. To them all of those are treated as 'facts', but actual facts and especially inconvenient facts or objective facts are rendered down to mere 'opinions' to satisfy momentary confirmation biases.
This was brought on by a crisis where a family member is forgoing medical science for what is essentially quackery and grifting, to their own detriment. This inevitably results in what could have been a lethal outcome or severe physical/cognitive impairment. That was only barely avoided by the intervention of my sister who has medical training. Yet, after all of this, the family member still lies to my sister and I as well as lies to the Doctors. While all this lying is happening, they're communicating in secret to a quack Chiropractor.
America doesn't necessarily have a #gun problem. It has a #guncontrol problem, a #logic problem, a #criticalthinking problem, and a #compassion for "the other" problem.
#USA has gun ownership to gun death rate higher than other Western countries. 3.5X higher gun ownership rate than Canada & Iceland but 4X & 11X the death rate. The difference is how the public perceives why you need a gun.
In the US, too many people think guns are about protecting what's yours instead of a LAST RESORT.
Thinking that recent argument seemed dodgy?
Here’s a quick #CriticalThinking and argument analysis free online module at rmit.edu.au
https://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab/content/critical-thinking-and-argument-analysis
“Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.”
The “dark forest” view of the web.
BTW, I am not a bot! I genuinely log in here,
every weekday,
Monday to Friday.
^Paul
Profile spotlight (3/3): Find Bill Reel's story and full wasmormon.org profile at: https://wasmormon.org/profile/bill-reel/
#mormon #lds #exmo #postmormon #faith #deconstruction #church #history #true #mormonstory #doubt #mormontruthclaims #exmormon #bishop #faithdevelopment #lgbtq #rational #criticalthinking #mormonism #truthcrisis #diversity #abundance #vulnerability #authentic #broken #mystery #universe #respect
Profile spotlight (2/3): Find Bill Reel's story and full wasmormon.org profile at: https://wasmormon.org/profile/bill-reel/
#mormon #lds #exmo #postmormon #faith #deconstruction #church #history #true #mormonstory #doubt #mormontruthclaims #exmormon #bishop #faithdevelopment #lgbtq #rational #criticalthinking #mormonism #truthcrisis #diversity #abundance #vulnerability #authentic #broken
Profile spotlight (1/3): Find Bill Reel's story and full wasmormon.org profile at: https://wasmormon.org/profile/bill-reel/
#mormon #lds #exmo #postmormon #faith #deconstruction #church #history #true #mormonstory #doubt #mormontruthclaims #exmormon #bishop #faithdevelopment #lgbtq #rational #criticalthinking
#USA #Classrooms #CriticalThinking #Indoctrination #Nuts
// The teacher expressed her sarcastic thanks to the school that her efforts were finally being noticed, saying that she has been working hard to “indoctrinate” her students into being “critical thinkers”.//
https://www.themarysue.com/teacher-disciplined-after-students-protest-pledge-of-allegiance/
We might be in a small amount of trouble.
https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/122b2xx/staging_the_moon_landing_1969/
The book's author, Yamamoto is convinced that teaching children about “the shadows of history” will help them to think critically
via @JapanTimes
#CriticalThinking #History #SuicidePilots #japanese https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/26/national/history/kamikaze-history-education/
Posted from Reddit.
It's not MidJourney that terrifies me, it's the absolute dismal lack of basic critical thinking skills in a sizeable portion of the population.
https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/121y0bz/just_found_this_trending_on_twitter_w_99_who/
My take on #ChatGPT #Bing #BingAI #Microsoft #MicrosoftAI
yes I understand stating false things as truth (sometimes, not most times) is concerning. It may very well teach us as a people to be smarter about how we process media and information. We already have plenty of politicians spewing “alternative facts” ( aka LIES) confidently. Maybe the public will learn from this that anybody can lie to your face confidently. It’s up to us to verify and use critical thought.
Missouri House bill does a couple of things. The humorous one is actually the scariest - limits nonexistent vaccine microchips. The language also applies to pace makers and other mechanical or electronic devices under under the skin. #StupidPolitics #CriticalThinking #WhoVotedThemIn
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/missouri-house-advances-bill-to-limit-nonexistent-vaccine-microchips-just-in-case/
Let's talk about what children in other countries learn....
Happy World #Atheist Day! Today I celebrate my freedom from religious indoctrination, and remember those in corrupt religious regimes that are denied the same freedom. #secular #humanist #freedom #indoctrination #nullifidian #science #criticalthinking #worldatheistday #exchristian #exmuslim #excatholic #exjew #exmo #exjw #cult
The feeling of freedom can lead you to places from which it is almost impossible to return. Don’t be lazy or dishonest when questioning yourself. #CriticalThinking
No Proof. But it appears normalcy is associated with a decrease of creativity and reduction in language performance.
An Evolving Picture of Artists and Mental Health https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mind-of-a-collector/202303/an-evolving-picture-of-artists-and-mental-health
#StitchedInkMedia #Books #Environment #Nature #Censorship #Information #Misinformation #Creativity #CriticalThinking #Freedom #Writing #World #Culture #Politics #FreedomOfThought #Art #Writing #Fiction #Thursday #WorldBuilding #Artists #artistsofmastodon #Arts
For many, this meme is funny; but for some, it is painful. It is hard to accept that. We devoted so much time to a myth that we mistakenly believed was reality. #criticalthinking #exchristian #indoctrination #atheist #nullifidian #ReligiousTrauma #humour
Excited to announce my interview with @chatgpt, the AI language model trained on GPT-3.5 architecture! We'll be discussing a range of topics, from critical thinking to current events. Join us for an insightful conversation! #AI #criticalthinking #interview #thereisnorightinthewrong https://medium.com/@imagineutopia/apply-critical-thinking-to-this-news-story-trump-hush-money-and-musk-of-course-9da2caaa9f50
People who were better at estimating the difficulty of remembering word pairings were also better at a #reflection test.
Curiously, those "high monitoring" participants performed just as poorly on the reflection test as "low monitoring" peers if they were exposed to a 5-6 minute bundle of "negative emotion" video clips.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1110211
#CriticalThinking #Emotion #DualProcessTheory #DecisionScience #CogSci
This Friday, March 24, we're excited to welcome Libbie Bischoff, type designer and founder of Type Du Nord.
Come and learn about Libbie's journey from student at Type West to starting her own type foundry 🔥🔥🔥
This event is free and online ❤️
Details and registration are on our website:
🔗 https://typeelectives.com/events
#community #criticalthinking #love #onlineevent #lectureseries #type #design #education
Anybody else notice the gender distribution in this picture?
Today’s 4th grade robotics challenge: Build and re-engineer the #Collaboration build in WEDO to carry the most @KEVAplanks the farthest distance. 💪🏼 #Teamwork #STEM #CriticalThinking https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638231712562814988
For years, I heard experts from the data/AI rounds talk about the day we use the »Let's break things.« approach for #AI and #Data products. But I am shocked how quickly the new #AImodels are incorporated into other products without #criticalthinking about what can go wrong.
Want to think like a CIA analyst?
This short primer shares "structured analytic techniques" (SATs) to overcome common reasoning mistakes (see images):
- key assumptions check
- analysis of competing hypotheses
- alternative futures analysis
- and more!
There's also an outline (see final image) of the timeline of SATs for an intelligence report (e.g., to ensure faulty assumptions are addressed sooner than later).
#CIA #intelligence #CriticalThinking #logic #probability #bias #decisionScience
@TootUncommon @charliejane IMHO many people lack the analytical skills to find reliable sources of info, so their attempts at research are arguably worse than ignorance. It takes great humility to admit you don't know something—or that you were wrong... We need to teach kids— everyone, really—#logic & #criticalthinking, how to recognize mis/disinformation.
@rjblaskiewicz
While your 'puter gets its boots on here's an example for your conspiracy class.
This morning, 5 mins after taking my daily allergy pill, I had a big sneezing fit.
I this reality I wished I had taken it earlier.
In the 'alternative facts' reality I concluded that 'obviously' the pill was in fact laced with a substance to induce allergic reactions, by 'big pharma' who are really in thrall to the Illuminati blah blah blah...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on how propaganda has corrupted public perception of concepts such as feminism.
https://kareem.substack.com/p/womens-history-month-edition-misogyny
#Feminism #Woke #Propaganda #Education #CriticalThinking #Substack #KareemAbdulJabbar
life as a #unitarianuniversalist.
Eschew comforting lies. Think for yourself.
#Humanism #Atheism #Philosophy #CriticalThinking
Glad I am a happy #atheist fully living life! #criticalthinking #secular #humanist #nullifidian #logic #reason
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Critical Thinking Cat is scooting while thinking about critical thinking games.
✔️ Register by tomorrow.
📆 Submit a pitch by March 19
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Topic: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#Caturday #VideoGames #CriticalThinking #indie #GameDesign #GameDev #Nonprofit #EdTech @stopTDV @psychology @sociology
@chris Thank you for teaching at schools! ❤️
> The cross-discipline training is so limited and getting worse.
That is so sad to hear.😢
One of the best experiences as a student is, when you can suddenly connect the dots between seemingly unrelated topics. It spikes curiosity even more. Those "light-bulb-moments", you know!?
The Scout Mindset - by Julia Galef also comes to mind here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Mindset
❓ Can you design a non-violent video game about critical thinking?
📆 Register by March 19th
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Topic: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#VideoGames #ProSocial #CriticalThinking #Progressive #GameDesign #GameDev #Education #Edutooter #Communication #Students #Teachers #FollowFriday #PublicHealth #Prevention #Nonprofit #EdTech #StPatricksDay
@edutooters
@communicationscholars
Blog Post by Stitched Ink Media, first published November 21, 2022.
Excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book ‘Systemic Evolutions’ by Chris Handrahan.
For evolution to properly function, the environment must transform to permit fresh, innovative possibilities to emerge.
Impending Change for Betterment
https://www.stitched-ink-media.com/post/impending-change-for-betterment-part-1
#StitchedInkMedia #Books #Nature #Science #Writing #Creativity #Environment #CriticalThinking #Ocean #Trees #Culture #Art #Biodiversity #Diversity
Critical Thinking & Violence Prevention
▪️ Applying critical thinking to real-world problems will help learners improve their social skills & problem-solving skills.
▪️ Improving decision-making & problem-solving skills will increase learners' resilience to violence.
@publichealth @sociology @edutooters
@communicationscholars @stopTDV #Violence #Prevention #PublicHealth #Education #GameDesign #GameDev #CriticalThinking #Resilience #ProblemSolving #SEL
If homeopathy actually worked we'd all be drunk all the time. Just think of all that alcohol diluted down with memory water.
😬 Not only can poor reasoners be more prone to overestimate their reasoning ability (a la Kruger & Dunning), but self-reported reasoning habits can be alarmingly unrelated to behavioral tests of those habits!
Some evidence + take-aways: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/upon-reflection/202107/can-we-estimate-our-own-ability-reason
#CriticalThinking #DunningKruger #DecisionScience #CognitiveScience #Personality #SelfReport
#ReligiousTrauma #criticalthinking #indoctrination #beliefs …and the evidence should be credible & verifiable - not just from some YT dingdong or IG “influencer” 🙄
In public discourse, research and academic writing, logical fallacies should always be avoided because they invalidate conclusions and arguments. https://research.com/research/logical-fallacies-examples #CriticalThinking
If you're giving a course, the other issue I think ties in that I left out of my previous reply is hypocrisy.
We live in an overconstrained world, which means inconsistencies abound, and classical logic does not apply because it likes to disprove things by observing they lead to inconsistencies and it's hard to distinguish inconsistencies that arise from the premises and inconsistencies that arise from the thing to be (dis)proven. We are easily tricked.
Nature is not inconsistent because it does not exist on abstractions, but we are born into a world that is just a mass of signals that we must first parse into language and a habitable community, and within our lifetime grow to understand and navigate vast complexities from genetics to the far reaches of the universe, with vagueries like psychology, sociology, economics and other social arts thrown in just to keep us off balance.
It's stunning we can do much of any of this in so short a time, frankly, so we owe ourselves a collective pat on the back before we stress overly, but we also need for our own survival not be tricked by forces that would turn us back from civilization.
And the tool that is often used in social settings it so show someone is a hypocrite, as if that was disqualifying. It is not. The willingness to engage inconsistency is table stakes for living in the world. A philosophy of inconsistency is essential.
I'm a big fan of Aristotle's virtue ethics, but only really in through the lens of something I call creative misunderstanding. I like his ideas, but I also find them unworkable. I'll focus particularly on what I have had summed up for me as "virtue is the golden mean between unreasonable extremes". I take his point to be that there is some ideal you can locate by clever triangulation between, say, spendthriftiness and miserliness. But that's where I part with him.
I see the "middle" in the way mathematicians see the mid-point between zero and one. Yes, there's a place we call 0.5 that we can argue is the middle, but there is another place you can argue is the middle which is the place where there are the same number of points on either side. But points are infinitely small, and there is a countable infinity to the right and left of every point between zero and one, so any point can be argued to be the midpoint, and sometimes the midpoint needs to be seen as thus movable.
I refer to it not as the "golden mean" but the "messy middle" because depending on context, it must move. It isn't a place, it is a quest. Every added nuance takes you not closer but instead to a place that requires more study because there is fractally a recurring enemy of dogma that is fighting to keep real justice of definition from being achieved. So what makes one "right" is not that they say things the right way, but that they are willing to defend the position they take, and to change that position dynamically and without shame when shown that circumstances require it.
What's vexing about the messy middle is that it's hard to distinguish weasely people from heroic people. Both require shifting. But the ability to distinguish weasels from heroes is not something the Universe offers us as a guarantee. So you have to defend your right to be called hero. It is not, in the Aristotilian way we're taught, waiting to be uncovered, but more just a messy space that we must accept as messy and learn to live with by seeking always an increase in justice.
And what is justice? Yeah, I fear that's gonna have to be staked out in similar way. Messy. But I'm not sure we are offered better. So I'll stand by that.
Alas, many philosophical problems are intimately tied up in tribal politics.
I don't find it hard to accept ideas from unpleasant sources. I'm a political independent with progressive leanings who used to (decades ago) listen to Limbaugh and the whole evening of Fox News not because I liked what I heard but because it seemed more interesting to understand why people disagreed with me than to hear repeatedly that people agree. I eventually stopped because they became repetitive and really not informative, not because I wanted to stop the flow of other ideas.
Suffice to say, I am not bothered about taking ideas from unusual places. It's source of useful power. And I"m not bothered offering uncomfortable ideas to people. I'm used to people being annoyed at that. I wish it made me more popular, but I'm resigned to the idea that truth-telling is not socially favored.
And yet, I do find that each conversation takes place in multiple spaces. Discussion of an issue becomes, by proxy, discussion of an ideology, such that it's hard lately to take a position that's unpopular, and NOT because I feel judged by my peers (whatever they are). I'm not worried about so-called wokeness holding me back, for example. But I think what passes for a political right is no longer a principled conservative movement, no longer the other side of a legitimate debate. And I need to offer it no fuel.
Instead, it is a hermit crab that has invaded the shell of a past party and is abusing what trust there ever was in that party, to destroy any notion of democracy, of free public exchange, of societal consensus-making, etc. It offers authoritarian wolvery in conservatively tailored sheep's clothing.
I wish the issue of political alignment could be factored out from other matters, but in some sense I think the idea of being able to pretend it is something you can talk about in the abstract is a luxury borne of a healthy free society. And right now society has a disease it needs to shake off.
One casualty that already upsets me is the inability to use metaphor without qualifying it. I have an essay I wrote a while back that I'd love to publish. But it ends in a suggestion that something be burned to the ground and started anew. It was just metaphorical. In healthy times there would be no question. But I actively fear that someone these days would take it literally. The idea that I should have to rewrite the ending pains me. So it sits languishing.
These are precarious times. And the chains it imposes on ordinary discourse are heavy, and impede the having of purely abstract discussions.
#CriticalThinking #Skepticism #Scepticism #Philosophy #Politics
Remember if you see a meme or something that looks to be true , sit on your hands and be sure it's not your own confirmation bias at work. Bookmark it, research it, then go boost or whatever. Always verify the facts!
Computer programmers are supposed to be logical but much of the code I have had the displeasure of working with or looking at is anything but. Not the sort of people that should claim to be critical thinkers IMO.
A printable flyer [PDF] for sharing the Critical Thinking Game Design Challenge with schools & other groups is now available to download.
⭐ Please share with school design programs, indie dev groups, and anybody else who wants to help make a difference through video games (and/or wants to win the prize money).
🌐 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E7dbcc24YpRbmyiVYKNfwWIRycBWtiFP/view?usp=sharing
@edutooters @academicchatter @communicationscholars @stopTDV @gamingagainstv
#VideoGames #GameDev #CriticalThinking #Tech #Programming #EdTech #Gaming #Media #Education #Nonprofit #Knowledge #ScientificThinking #Prevention #Gaming #CatsOfMastodon #RetroGaming #Indie
From April 2021 on the the bird site I made this observation which is still true today. Commercials are talking to your emotional side not your thinking side. Use critical thinking. Always keep track of the 7 basic Propaganda tactics in use.
"I was fascinated by a new car commercial. Very effective propaganda! Comparing people who take transit to automatons whereas you can become a PERSON driving our car. Appeals to some deep fear. (Commercials ARE propaganda people ;) )"
This Friday, March 10, we’re excited to welcome Schessa Garbutt, founder & creative director of Firebrand House.
Come and learn about Schessa's journey into type design through their brand identity practice for social justice and cultural groups as well as their work provoking and troubling the typical design canon and its processes.
🔥🔥🔥
This event is free and online. Details and registration are on our website:
🔗https://www.typeelectives.com/events
#criticalthinking #community #onlineevent #TypeElectives
🎉 The critical thinking video game design challenge is now accepting your game pitches!
⭐ You have until March 19, 2023 to submit a pitch about a video game for adolescents about critical thinking.
▪️ $10,000 total prize pool.
▪️ Finalists notified March 30.
▪️ Finalists will have from March 30 - June 30, 2023 to develop their games.
❤️ Presented by the nonprofit org Jennifer Ann's Group [@stopTDV] whose focus is on helping teens have happier, healthier lives! Their Gaming Against Violence [@gamingagainstv] program is an award-winning approach to engaging & empowering young people.
Details, rules, and more:
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.games
#CriticalThinking #GameDesign #GameDev #Prevention #PublicHealth #IndieGame #IndieDev #Nonprofit #Videogames
@Auxonic Propaganda is one of my strong interests. Gave a talk about it to a Skepticamp years ago. We are being manipulated all the time, commercials using classic propaganda techniques thanks to Bernays. I totally agree. Critical thinking can help immunize against propaganda but also teaching how it works would be very helpful.
I am collaborating with fellow mental health clinicians on opening a secular recovery centre for those leaving high demand, coercive regions/spiritual groups/cults in the USA. We are hosting our first gathering of interested parties in LA this April. if you are interested, I’d like to hear from you. #coercion #cults #religions #mentalhealth #secular #criticalthinking
"Most quotes of Einstein were made up by people to look smart" -- Einstein
@arstechnica just dropping this link here- https://blog.tcea.org/science-denial-power-of-questioning/ #ScienceDenial #FlatEarth #education #CriticalThinking
✅ A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism | 💬 The Guardian, Emily Bell | 📄 ▶️ https://bit.ly/3SNktbg
🔑 #ChatGPT #LLM #AI #misinformation #truth #CriticalThinking #merit #P4life #philosophy #quality #writing
What is Critical Thinking?
📚 "Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write.
"To become a better critical thinker, you therefore need to learn how to:
[1] Clarify your thinking purpose and context;
[2] Question your sources of information;
[3] Identify arguments;
[4] Analyse sources and arguments;
[5] Evaluate the arguments of others; and
[6] Create or Synthesise your own arguments."
🌐 https://www.monash.edu/learnhq/enhance-your-thinking/critical-thinking/what-is-critical-thinking
@edutooters @academicchatter @communicationscholars @stopTDV @gamingagainstv
#VideoGames #GameDev #CriticalThinking #Tech #Programming #EdTech #Gaming #Media #Education #Nonprofit #Knowledge #ScientificThinking #Prevention #Gaming #CatsOfMastodon #RetroGaming #Indie
Maybe. Maybe democracy is failing because we don’t teach humanities well or more. Why can’t you teach critical thinking, what to value as part of practical disciplines?->
“Teaching the arts and #humanities well confers proficiencies such as good #writing and clear speaking. #CriticalThinking emerges—take nothing on authority, absorb but question traditions, conserve in order to reform….”
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/01/features-forum-humanists
Announcing the 2023 Life.Love Game Design Challenge: Critical Thinking
🌐 https://CriticalThinker.Games
Game pitches accepted starting March 7th, 2023. $10,000 in prizes for non-violent critical thinking games.
❤️ This is our 16th annual game design challenge.
To learn more about critical thinking and the game design challenge visit our website and follow our account here!
@stopTDV @gamingagainstv #CriticalThinking #GameDesign #GameDev #Contest #IndieGame #IndieDev #Education #Prevention #Violence #ACEs #Nonprofit #PublicHealth
@edutooters @publichealth @communicationscholars
In this module, students will learn to distinguish between false information, fictitious information and facts, by learning about the processes that leads to facts (e.g., peer review), as well as about the process that leads to fake (e.g., trolling) or fiction (e.g., simulation outcomes).
#journalism #teaching #university #science #democracy #criticalthinking #information #sources
Exciting news: I'm going to be a guest lecturer at Utrecht University, starting from June. My class, 'The role of journalism in society', will be a part of the new module 'Fake, Fact and Fiction' of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance.
#journalism #teaching #university #science #democracy #criticalthinking #information #sources
❤️ For Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (#TDVAM) which is recognized in the U.S. during February, we will be announcing this year's game design challenge on Feb 28th.
👍 The Life.Love. Game Design Challenge has run annually since 2008. Past topics include healthy relationships, consent, and resilience.
⭐ This year's topic: Critical Thinking.
Please boost & stay tuned for details!
#CriticalThinking #VideoGames #GameDev #Indie @publichealth @psychology @communicationscholars @edutooters
@aspiringcat I love this!
Always remember Hanlon's razor.
It seems obvious that science is beneficial to our lives. What may be less obvious is how learning to apply scientific thinking in our daily lives benefits us. It is nice to see the Center for Inquiry reminding us about this in such a positive way.
#science #CriticalThinking #education #skepticism
https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/what-do-you-need-to-know-about-science/
Assume everything you see online is fake. Photoshop, deepfakes, AI content creation, 3D rendering and all the other methods out there, it is time to switch our default state of - true until proven false to the opposite. From now on, 'fake until evidence provided' is going to keep you safer, saner and probably happier. #CriticalThinking #thinkforyourself #DeepFake #AI
Aspects of the current “zeitgeist” remind me of #GellMannAmnesia… to the extent that I’m committing that expression to memory. Our #CriticalThinking skills may fail us outside of certain topics.
Based on Crichton’s description of the effect, I’d expand “media” to encompass other unreliable sources of secondary information.
We’re in an age of information overload.
Learn how #medialiteracy principles can help you make sense of your digital media environment.
This important open self paced course from ASU can help significantly improve your #criticalthinking skills
via teaching you how to spot misinformation
and how to assess
credible sources, claims.
#education #lifelonglearning All Invited #Joinin
Many thanks
@dangillmor for sharing.
A good scientist holds several competing ideas in their head simultaneously when probing new data. #Feynman #science #criticalthinking #productivity
Teaching: On the Benefits of Critical Ignoring
@oisinmcgann That goes for papers too.
'feminist glaciology'
So proud and excited to share our Type Electives Spring 2023 free & online lecture series focused on Criticality and Love!
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Dates, details, and registration are on our website below:
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@kentpitman @RD4Anarchy @noself @rmkelly @philosophy
Yes I agree. This gets right into the Lippmann Dewey debates territory. Yes the populace (us!) should be "open-minded" and "correct our use" but then most people don't
Unfortunately pragmatics is used by certain actors to 'frame' definitions. (Stanley) But it takes serious money and control of media (See Ellul, Arendt, Chomsky) to do effective propaganda, which none of us are immune to (Although critical thinking helps).
I've known for a while that posting an #introduction is the done thing.. it's just that I'm too much of an #introvert for that ever to seem like a good idea. Nevertheless I'll try to be a good citizen:
Hi, I'm charis. I work in #nhs #research governance in the north west uk. I like #maths, #science, #CriticalThinking, #nature, #books, quirky humor and a nice cup of #tea. Oh, and there will be pictures of cats - it appears inevitable.
@Remittancegirl
That's CriticalThinking Skepticism which so many claim to do but they never do the questioning part.
@Dianora @analogfusion
AMEN to that! #CriticalThinking may be the most important skill a human can acquire. Studying #philosophy, as I was fortunate to do, shows how every philosophical system, no matter how clever, has some flaws. Kurt Gödel showed that even mathematics contains at least one self-referential unprovable theorem (Epimemides' paradox). Science works by constantly improving its theories. Dogmatism and hero worship are surrendering to intellectual authoritarianism.
@analogfusion His History of Philosophy is quite good.
His advice to future generations (It's online) is very good advice. I don't hero worship people but he agrees with me. 🙂 Never hero worship anyone to the point you accept everything they say as fact. as We are all human and make mistakes. Think for yourself.
The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. But there are concrete ways in which we can protect ourselves from information overload.
Read this helpfull article about #criticalthinking and #criticalignoring via @TheConversationUS
There Is No Thinking without Memorizing
An education that encourages sympathy for the past, holding the possibility that it might have something to teach us, allows us to escape the echo chamber of our time and gain perspective, which is the seed of wisdom. #education #CriticalThinking #BloomsTaxonomy #history
If your "Let science lead me" leads you to being a bigot then you are not doing science you are doing bigotry.
“If those in power want to maintain their power, they'll want to control what children learn. They'll want teachers to teach what is in their interests. They'll want to prevent children from learning things that might undermine their power. They'll tell you it is about not wanting children to feel bad about themselves, but this is a smokescreen. They seek to preserve their power.”
atheistrev.com/2023/02/an-accu…
Critical Thinking Isn't Enough. Time for Critical Ignoring. | FlaglerLive
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.
@black_intellect Woah there. Analyze the article. Their candidacy almost guarantees neither Sinema nor Gallego can avoid splitting the Democratic vote, leading to a Republican win.
Hello Mastodoners,
Evidently we need to keep introducing ourselves here to start building up those networks again.
I am Tim –– #ecologist, #ornithologist, and Associate Professor at #OklahomaStateUniversity and current #President of the #wilsonornithologicalsociety.
I dig #birds, #landscapes, #science #HigherEd #CriticalThinking #SecularHumanism, #mentoring, #DEIJ, etc. Still active as @Seiurus on another site.
My frequent furry sidekick is Nellie.
I will follow you!
Explore resources to improve critical thinking. Pseudoscience is believing ideas that sound scientific but are not. Read “One Strategy for Combatting Pseudoscience” at https://blog.tcea.org/strategy-combatting-pseudoscience/ #pseudoscience #CriticalThinking #science #teaching #learning #mgshare
How can we teach students to evaluate pseudoscience and sketchy assertions? Explore resources to improve critical thinking. Read “One Strategy for Combatting Pseudoscience” at https://blog.tcea.org/strategy-combatting-pseudoscience/
#pseudoscience #edtech #education #criticalThinking