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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What would "generic" critical thinking even look like? You need some subject matter to apply critical thinking skills to. News is already a very, very broad subject. What kind of critical thinking do you think is important but not teachable in the context of news?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Teaching about logical fallacies, how the scientific method is supposed to work, etc.

Not so much that it couldn't be taught in the context of news, but there are far more areas where critical thinking is needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes. In college libraries I remember opening handbooks on critical thinking and they were as you said.

Here is one that is available online for free as an open access PDF and has all of the best and current science on many aspects of rationality from cognitive science to philosophy: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree. That's what I learn when I was in school. We also had to identify objective and subjective texts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah we had to do something like that in History class, but I took the IB curriculum. I don't think most standard secondary school History classes make you assess the "Origin, Purpose, Value, and Limitation" of a source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Science classes already exist. I was also taught about logical fallacies in high school—probably in English but I don't really remember.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here's the syllabus for the Cambridge Critical Thinking AS & A level

https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/597412-2023-2025-syllabus.pdf

They used to offer it as an end of GCSEs subject in grammar schools in the UK when i were younger (Maybe they still do, i don't know). My Ex took it.

I (a pleb) went to a plebs school though so didn't get the opportunity