For a class project, a pair of 11th grade physics students created the infographic shown below, inspired by Michael Shermer’s Baloney Detection Kit: a 16-page booklet designed to hone your critical thinking skills. It includes suggestions on what questions to ask, what traps to avoid, specific examples of how the scientific method is used to test pseudoscience and paranormal claims, and a how-to guide for developing a class in critical thinking.
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Topics addressed: critical thinking and skepticism
Resource type: student projects and papers
Academic discipline: freshman foundation and general education
Academic level: primary • secondary
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Resource type: student projects and papers
Academic discipline: freshman foundation and general education
Academic level: primary • secondary
Off topic, anyone else read the title at first glance as “Skepticism lol” (as opposed to 101) ?
(I do like my serif-ed ones and slashed zeros very much, thank you).
Every industry lobby group has money even the green ones (!)
Philip says:
April 26, 2017 at 7:24 pm
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Nicely done! Refreshing to see that critical thinking is alive and well with these students. Is it alive and well in all students in all American classrooms?
Great idea! Well done! There’s a small error that should be fixed before this is distributed widely… the explanations #4 and #5 (in the second half) do not correspond properly to the questions #4 and #5 (in the first half) – they’ve been switched. An easy fix, and then I hope this creative infographic gets “spread” around! (sandwich pun)
Well done kids! All high schools should have a unit or two on skepticism.
Hi,
there is a most important question missing in your BDK:
– Where does the money come from ?
That is a reformulation of question 10, most suited to our times…