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Truly effective education involves teaching people how to do their research in a way that stresses objectivity and apply a high degree of scrutiny to any argume
by jesseendahl 8y ago
Truly effective education involves teaching people how to do their research in a way that stresses objectivity and apply a high degree of scrutiny to any argument. It gives people a toolkit for critical thinking, and how to assess the quality of one argument against another. We don't just need education, we education that places a renewed emphasis on critical thinking skills.
This is an interesting article on this topic:
http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2017/05/fake-news.aspx http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2017/05/fake-news.aspx
- mantas 8y agoYup. But some people think that education would make people flock back to mainstream media and listening to talking heads. Which is not going to happen. And that's good. Once you start evaluating arguments and doing your own research, a lot of difference opinions emerge. Which sometimes are labeled as fake news, even though they're not truly fake. If everyone did assess all news, most crazy fake news would be gone. Which is awesome. But many of non-mainstream opinions that technically are not fake would survive. Which is good too in my books, but some people wouldn't agree.