Comment on Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months agoWhat 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?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Science classes already exist. I was also taught about logical fallacies in high school—probably in English but I don’t really remember.
wreckage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree. That’s what I learn when I was in school. We also had to identify objective and subjective texts
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months 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.