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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools::undefined

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree. That's what I learn when I was in school. We also had to identify objective and subjective texts

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

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