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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I like that it's a critical thinking subject, but it would be much better if you taught generic critical thinking, and used "recognising fake news" as one of the applications for critical thinking.
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?
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.
I agree. That's what I learn when I was in school. We also had to identify objective and subjective texts
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.