
#74-Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking—back to the basics—with Melanie Trecek-King
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Thinking Is Power - Critical Thinking and Critical Thinking
I think we're going to see more emphasis as the future goes on in critical thinking. And it would be great if every science course did teach a little segment of critical thinking or the teacher somehow put those aspects in to the course and let students have a chance to practice that. So what I tried to do with FLOADER was make a handy acronym that is critical thinking and process of science all sort of rolled in one. The F stands for falsifiability, there needs to be a way to disprove the claim. This goes back to Karl Popper's idea of falsification.
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