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It’s about false & ingrained concepts, hard to avoid & get rid of in schoolbooks, teaching or politics https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com
Because today I wanted to send a write up of a COMMON classroom activity to a substitute and had to spend 40 minutes searching through subscription only educator sites, mommy blogs that embed the instructions deep inside of rambling stories to drive engagement and ad revenue, and videos that deliberately withheld key information in order to sell their book!
This was a basic engineering activity that has been done for decades! We don't need 20 people competing to find a way to squeeze profit out of an old idea! We need teachers to work together to make one shared beautiful accessible write up!
TLDR; there are least 4 problems with the claim that "Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods".
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Okay, corrected that Word thing. That was the easy part. I need to add a lot more activities to the Internet course. A lot more Google fetch quests. But how would I get the students to get the document to me? Oh wait, they've not even done word yet. Hmm. They've not done email yet either. Just Windows basics and their screen reader course. I mean you'd think that'd be enough but I'm trying to be fair here. I thought about maybe a flash drive, but that'd be like, a lot of work to just transfer a file. Hmm. Maybe we can get a network drive up and going or something. The students need more practice with File Explorer, the monster that it is, and copying and pasting files anyway. Ugh I so wish it were as simple as Mac or Linux. Just land in the home folder and move out from there. But oh no there's like expandable sections and the filesystem isn't laid out simply. Anyway, yeah maybe have them open notepad and write in that, save it and transfer it through the network or something. Or, sigh I could have them start uploading their work to Moodle earlier. Ugh I'm gonna hate having to go into Moodle, and push my hand all the way up to my shoulder in Moodle junk just to grab a file upload. Yeah maybe the network drive would be good enough.
We know that the task demands of cognitive tests most scores: if one version of a problem requires more work (e.g., gratuitously verbose or unclear wording, open response rather than multiple choice), people will perform worse.
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Are #philosophy students’ intuitions about thought experiments different because of expertise?
Longitudinal studies of philosophy and #CogSci students (N = 226) didn't seem to reveal as much: there were some group differences in intuitions, but a selection/indoctrination effect seemed more likely than “a general expertise” or “expertise specific to particular subfields”.
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).
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It’s Sunday morning & 2 posts were added to this searchable & translatable collection of links to free access #edu content: https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com
Both texts address issues that educators in many countries face these days…
Thanks to authors, Prof Larry Cuban & UK teacher Dawn Cox
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