'By the end of these tutorials... you should have acquired basic skills of argument mapping, and have a deeper understanding of the nature of reasoning and argumentation.'
two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at school ages 8 to 10, or kids between the ages of 13 and 15, but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government.
"Baloney Detection Kit" for grown-ups from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Shermer - a 10-point checklist for assessing the believability of a claim
If properly developed, it can guide and empower them the rest of their lives. Its other pluses:
# Comes universally pre-installed, free of charge
# Has no socio-economic barriers to "adoption"
# Is automatically customized in micro detail as it's used
# Works at the "operating system" level
# Not only doesn't conflict with, but supports and enhances, all other "applications"
# Improves with use
# Is the No. 1 online-safety tool.
washington state university - , to highlight the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across traditional boundaries of viewpoint, practice, and discipline.