Indeed, the common refrain that teachers should focus on abstract critical thinking skills, disconnected from content, risks de-emphasizing the very thing — fluency with a broad set of facts — that supports critical thinking. “Domain knowledge is ...
Indeed, the common refrain that teachers should focus on abstract critical thinking skills, disconnected from content, risks de-emphasizing the very thing — fluency with a broad set of facts — that supports critical thinking. “Domain knowledge is a crucial driver of thinking skill,” wrote University of Virginia cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham in 2020 for the American Educator, a publication of the American Federation of Teachers. “Critical thinking for open-ended problems is enabled by extensive stores of knowledge.” In the era of AI, schools want students to think critically. Experts say they need knowledge to do so. SS: Critical thinking with AI, at the expense of content knowledge, doesn't seem to make sense. How would you know AI was making up a fact, without knowing the fact? submitted by /u/ddgr815 [link] [comments]
