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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)

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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools::undefined

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 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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[–] online@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes. In college libraries I remember opening handbooks on critical thinking and they were as you said.

Here is one that is available online for free as an open access PDF and has all of the best and current science on many aspects of rationality from cognitive science to philosophy: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

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[–] wreckage@lemmy.world 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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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 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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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago

Science classes already exist. I was also taught about logical fallacies in high school—probably in English but I don't really remember.

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