Education 2.0 & 3.0

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The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

Learn interactively in and out of the classroom. Your students will receive a school license from Brilliant, for free.

The School of Thought International is a charity organisation dedicated to teaching creative and critical thinking skills.

Unbiased news sources are rare, but they do exist. Here are the best news websites that are free from true censorship.

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In yesterday's episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff I shared some information about an update to a favorit

Unbiased news sources are rare, but they do exist. Here are the best news websites that are free from censorship.

The use of constrained choice activities in higher education classrooms can improve students’ critical thinking and real-world decision-making skills.

Visible thinking routines that encourage students to document and share their ideas can have a profound effect on their learning.

Synthetic media, better known as deepfakes, could be a goldmine for filmmakers. But the technology has already terrorized women who have had their faces inserted into pornography. And it could potentially disrupt society. Bill Whitaker reports.

The Critical Thinking Company publishes PreK-12+ books and software to develop critical thinking in core subject areas.

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As “research it yourself” becomes a rallying cry for promoters of outlandish conspiracy theories with real-world consequences, educators need to think hard about what’s missing from their information literacy efforts.

Individuals vary in their views of what students should be taught. How should teachers discuss the misdeeds of a nation’s founders? What is the minimum accomplishment expected of each student in mathematics? But there is no disagreement on the importance of critical thinking skills. In free societies, the ability to think critically is viewed as a cornerstone of individual civic engagement and economic success.

But is there evidence that explicitly teaching critical thinking brings any benefit? There is, and such evidence is available for different subject matters. For example, in one experiment researchers taught college students principles for evaluating evidence in psychology studies – principles like the difference between correlational research and true experiments (Bensley and Spero, 2014). These principles were incorporated into regular instruction in a psychology class, and their application was practised in that context. Compared to a control group that learned principles of memory, students who learned the critical thinking principles performed better on a test that required evaluation of psychology evidence.

If I take enough vitamin c, can I prevent covid-19?  What if I drink liquid silver? Or keep purple onions by my bed? There is a lot of misinformation about the corona virus. In this episode, Myles breaks down some popular myths about how covid-19 is transmitted, prevented and treated. What myths have you heard and how did you determine they were false?
Have your students watch the video and respond to the prompt on KQED Learn.

Is critical thinking for kids? Absolutely! The art of critical thinking begins in childhood. What kind of thinker is your child?  Does he believe everything on TV?  Does she always figure out how to get what she wants? 

Does he ask questions?  Does she go along with what her friends suggest?  You can help develop your child’s critical thinking skills by learning a few key guidelines!

Whether your child is just starting summer vacation or in the midst of the school year, parents can help keep minds active in fun ways. Critical thinking skills don’t fully develop until adolescence, but the foundations for good thinking develop in younger children.

The nonprofit Foundation for Critical Thinking cultivates core intellectual virtues that lead to fair-minded thinking.  They have identified three ways K-6 children typically think.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking

Gavin Phillips