Gen AI Demands We Teach Critical Thinking
David Ross,
Getting Smart,
Sept 17, 2024
"Is this real?" This should be our first reaction these days to any new content, whether it shows up on TikTok, Twitter, cable news, or a major newspaper. And "the question 'Is this real?' is a call to action for critical thinking." Quite so. But what, and how? Ross offers a rough and ready account of critical thinking, one that could use some polish, and suggests 'infusion' - "explicitly teaching principles of critical thinking embedded in specific subject-matter content within a discipline" - is the best way to teach it. My own preference is the reverse - teach the subject-specific content matter as material embedded in a single cross-disciplinary critical thinking focus. But imagine asking students to ask of textbooks, "is this real?" And yet, how necessary.
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