Episode S3-05: Thinking Is Power
From Amplify: Welcome to Science Connections! Science is changing before our eyes, now more than ever. How do we help kids (and ourselves) keep up? How are we preparing students to be the next generation of 21st-century scientists?
Join our host Eric Cross as he sits down with educators, scientists, and knowledge experts on ways to best support students in science classrooms. Hear how to inspire kids across the country to love learning science, and how you can bring that magic into your classroom for your students.
Melanie Trecek-King is the creator of Thinking is Power, an online resource that provides critical thinking education to the general public. She is currently an associate professor of biology at Massasoit Community College, where she teaches a general-education science course designed to equip students with empowering critical thinking, information literacy, and science literacy skills. An active speaker and consultant, Trecek-King loves to share her “teach skills, not facts” approach with other science educators, and help schools and organizations meet their goals through better thinking. Trecek-King is also the education director for the Mental Immunity Project and CIRCE (Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative), which aim to advance and apply the science of mental immunity to inoculate minds against misinformation.
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Links from the show
Teach Skills, Not Facts
Mental Immunity Project
Stay Afloat in a Sea of Misinformation (FLOATER Toolkit)
How to Inoculate Yourself Against Misinformation
Barnum Effect
How to Sell Pseudoscience
The Melanie T-Shirt (Be Curious. Be Skeptical. Be Humble.)
Center for Inquiry TIES Program with Bertha Vasquez
Please Don’t Fail Me and Cranky Uncle
Don’t Be Fooled…Fact Check (with Lateral Reading)
Information Literacy