The #media problem: best be demarcated by the necessity to create better incentives for profitable media bus models *put pursuit of truth at the center of the value hierarchy -a challenge: given -lion’s share of the media IDU: become reliant on advertising as the sole profit engine. & with: #AI & advanced ad targeting capabilities, consumers have been relegated to pushing buttons while entrapped in our indiv. Skinner boxes-.
In one sense, Trump has done the world of intellectual inquiry a service: He is forcing those fighting disinformation to engage on a much broader front than just relying on critical thinking and a respect for evidence. #criticalthinking
Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.
Effective propaganda demands a captive audience. What happens when media giants decide what is news and what is advertised instead of governments?
Despite Chomsky's disdain for Walter Lippmann, they are both right.
Now, what happens if a grass roots movement arises to circumvent corporate control? Will there be an attempt to destroy these efforts? Threads anyone?
The term "Propaganda" gets an emotional response from many as connotations of state actors nefariously producing material to change people's minds yet the techniques used in propaganda are still used to this day in advertising. Using basic skills one can unwrap many of the tricks advertisers use to persuade people to buy their product.
People unable to separate Judaism from the State of Israel lack as much #CriticalThinking ability as people who cannot separate Hamas from Palestinians.
I’ll see your West Asian Bronze Age endogenous faith system and raise you a South Asian one.
Like, if you can’t separate Hinduism from #Tirupati, maybe you’re just Hindutva 🤨🤷🏻♂️
A lot of folks are taking off masks they didn’t know they were wearing and it’s not a good look.
Math education can lay the groundwork for problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and even a rewarding career https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2024/math-teachers-efforts-can-really-add-up.html
"…many students falling behind in #math may not have access to experienced & knowledgeable teachers
…If students and teachers can understand why math is important, and that it’s primarily about #reasoning and #criticalThinking—not memorization—it becomes easier to see the big picture and retain that knowledge."
"The same 2020 Pew poll found that those US respondents who used social media the most, for example, were the least likely to correctly answer questions about topics in the news, like the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump's impeachment. Only 17% of those who primarily got their news from social media had "high political knowledge", versus 45% who got their news from a news website or app.
Not only were the social media users less likely to know what was going on in the world – but they were more likely to have heard false, or unproven, claims and conspiracy theories. And they expressed less concern about these claims than other cohorts."
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If mapping arguments improves critical thinking, then argument mapping skills should correlate with critical thinking skills, right?
Alas, they didn't correlate among 115 Advanced Placement students across 4 high schools who mapped arguments for universal basic income (from a Douglas Murray article).
One of the best articles on Critical Thinking I have seen online. So many guides start with learning Formal logic and conflate that with critical thinking which is wrong IMO. Formal logic is a tool to use with critical thinking, not critical thinking itself. Critical thinking can help resist propaganda.
The word "pedant" has its roots in the Latin "paedagogantem," which is the present participle of "paedagogare," meaning "to act as a pedagogue or to teach."
The Latin word is derived from the Greek "paidagōgós," which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant "a teacher".