Critical Thinking in The Age of AI - Educators Technology

Critical Thinking in The Age of AI - Educators Technology

With AI-generated content everywhere, convincing, polished, and often dead wrong, students need more than digital literacy. They need intellectual grit. They need the tools to question, to evaluate, to not fall for the first thing that sounds authoritative. They need the skills of AI. What Is Critical Thinking? We’ll start with two foundational definitions: John Dewey (1933) described it as “active, persistent, and careful consideration of any …

Critical thinking as community value

Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an idea is that really? While we may agree that critical thinking is a good thing, just because a community values critical thinking does not mean they are good at it. In fact, communities that value critical thinking are often bad at it. This is an easy observation to make, here, because I don’t …