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 10 months agoTeaching 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.
wreckage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
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.