#critical-thinking

#critical-thinking

Generative AI tools don't just retrieve information; they can create, analyze, and summarize it. This represents a fundamental shift: Arguably, generative AI is the first technology that could replace human thinking and creativity.

"Everyone ought to read all this in high school." A student expressed frustration over students not being exposed to critical historical texts and principles that inform governance.

Community Notes have been successful enough on X to inspire Meta, TikTok, and YouTube to pursue similar initiatives.

Experiential learning is a student-centered approach that emphasizes learning through doing. Instead of passively receiving information, learners actively engage in realistic tasks, reflect on their actions, and adapt their strategies.

Saying "the president admits" would tend to lead people to think the president is involved in the activity; either that he committed the act, or someone connected to him did.

Due to the instant availability of the response to almost any question, LLMs can possibly make a learning process feel effortless, and prevent users from attempting any independent problem solving.

Puzzle games offer some of the most engaging gameplay experiences in video games, with 18 current titles standing out for their critical-thinking challenges that few other genres can match.

Teams that think critically tend to be more productive because they're not wasting time on problem-solving. They're more innovative, too, because they're constantly exploring ideas.

"The world as it is tempts us with the lure of what one might generously call comfortable thinking... False conviction saps true potential."

Even if there are beliefs that we hold that are true, if we prevent people challenging those beliefs, we will lose our understanding of why they're true.

To truly learn, we must also recognize when previously held beliefs are no longer accurate or incomplete.

A 90% accuracy of a COVID-19 test suggests that those who possess the disease will test positive 90% of the time, not that 90% of positives have the disease.

When you catch yourself thinking you've found the clear solution to a problem, that's your cue to get suspicious. Chances are, you haven't uncovered the full complexity of the issue.

Critical thinking is a process of thinking about thinking through purposeful, self-regulated judgment.

When people gather in large groups, they often act in ways that are different from how they would behave individually.