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For the last year or so I've been really thinking about how to deal with this. Why are people responding positively to bluster and lies? Why do they believe the

For the last year or so I've been really thinking about how to deal with this. Why are people responding positively to bluster and lies? Why do they believe them? How can I, as an educator, help people develop critical thinking skills? Unfortunately, I don't have an answer. I'm still hashing out in my mind how to best integrate critical literacy skills into my courses for the spring semester. I am really trying not to make my thinking about specific politics but more about logic and reasoning. If someone suggests something that is blatantly unconstitutional or impossible to accomplish, I want them to recognize that and call it out whether or not I think it would be bad or good.

ocschwar 10y ago
My feeling is that since Facebook has a monopoly on being Facebook, and Twitter has a monopoly on being Twitter, and since these companies have an interest in not being gamed by the KGB, Macedonian teenagers or anything else, they should keep up research on using data science to identify disinformation and rank it accordingly in the feeds they serve. It would be a good start.
tnecniv 10y ago
What do you teach?
devoply 10y ago
The only good reason to think critically is that it's empowering. If you can convey this to your students you can get them to think critically. If not, then not.