Imo Critical thinking isn’t a dying skill. It’s an overused skill.
Somehow people have decided that critical thinking means being smart. But that’s not what it means. It just means thinking critically. And boy, let me tell you, people are far, far more critical than they ever have been.
It has gotten so bad that the first thing anyone will do these days, regardless of headlines, is to rush to get the first critical thought out into the world.
You don’t need to be critical to think. And yet people believe that they have to be in order to find ‘the truth.’
If you equate criticality with thought, then you end up in this hellworld we live in where everyone and their mother spends all day useless ranting about ‘woke.’ Like somehow being critical of culture means you’re in the right.
Anyways, critical thinking is a meme. How about just good old regular thinking? I do believe people aren’t thinking anymore. I don’t know if they ever were though.
I’m a special ed teacher, not intellectually disabled, kids on standard curriculum.
I rarely give tests, but my midterms and finals are open notes. I tell them what notes to keep. I organize the tests into sections. Sometimes, the answers to questions are within the test itself.
I am constantly disappointed with how little my students are reading and thinking. They’re just mindlessly circling.
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Idk, let me check Chat GPT to see
It had to be sacrificed so that we could always feel good about ourselves. It is truly an excruciating time to be a critical thinker right now.
No you’re the only one in the whole world who thinks that
Imo Critical thinking isn’t a dying skill. It’s an overused skill.
Somehow people have decided that critical thinking means being smart. But that’s not what it means. It just means thinking critically. And boy, let me tell you, people are far, far more critical than they ever have been.
It has gotten so bad that the first thing anyone will do these days, regardless of headlines, is to rush to get the first critical thought out into the world.
You don’t need to be critical to think. And yet people believe that they have to be in order to find ‘the truth.’
If you equate criticality with thought, then you end up in this hellworld we live in where everyone and their mother spends all day useless ranting about ‘woke.’ Like somehow being critical of culture means you’re in the right.
Anyways, critical thinking is a meme. How about just good old regular thinking? I do believe people aren’t thinking anymore. I don’t know if they ever were though.
I’m a special ed teacher, not intellectually disabled, kids on standard curriculum.
I rarely give tests, but my midterms and finals are open notes. I tell them what notes to keep. I organize the tests into sections. Sometimes, the answers to questions are within the test itself.
I am constantly disappointed with how little my students are reading and thinking. They’re just mindlessly circling.