Modern humans are bombarded with information that varies in its degree of truth. Now more than ever a need has emerged to educate young people how to consume information, process it, and make difficult decisions. Tools like CGI, AI, bots, and a plethora of editing tools can tell any story creators want, fiction or not. And there are many outlets for these accounts to be shared on social media, the internet, and a plethora of television networks.
Because of this, it is time for critical thinking to move from a potential portion of a lesson, unit, or elective course (usually in secondary education) and into a subject area (much like math or language arts) traversing all the years of a child's education.
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Throughout history, as the needs of society changed, the specifics of compulsory education changed. Our current place in history requires citizens to come equipped with the ability to work through complex issues made more difficult to navigate due to competing versions and information on these issues. As we know with compulsory literacy, math and science, and more recently social-emotional education, the key is to start young.
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Problem solving for kids must be an explicit course that spans the grade levels. It would cover critical thinking for kids, teach higher order thinking, and use tools like bloom's taxonomy, logical fallacies, and healthy debate.
Now more than ever our collective abilities in problem solving, and critical thinking have been exposed as underdeveloped. There needs to be more emphasis on how to put forth sound judgements, and less emphasis on emotionally driven, knee-jerk, biased reactions.
If from a young age students are taught how to do evaluation, analysis, and synthesis, society could be the benefactor in the long run. As they say: common sense is not common.
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Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation.