The goal of this course is to help you find new ways to develop your learners’ metacognition, that is, the way they think about their own mental processes. Admittedly, this is a lofty goal and the materials presented here are but a small piece in a much larger puzzle.
The contents are based on a workshop I gave in June 2023 and are not intended as a complete overview of this area.
Here are some key concepts we’ll be dealing with:
- What is critical thinking?
- Logical fallacies and cognitive biases
- Research insights – critical thinking can be enhanced through teacher questions and silence (Zhiwen Feng) and it’s domain specific and depends on factual knowledge (Daniel T. Willingham)
- Tools: YourBias.Is, YourLogicalFallacyIs.com, Consensus App, GapMinder
