I recently had the pleasure of being on the Embrace the Void Podcast with host Aaron Rabinowitz, who teaches philosophy and ethics at Rutgers University.
Here’s the description of EV Episode 205 from his site: My guest this week is Melanie Trecek-King, a teacher at a community college who teaches a course on distinguishing between science, non-science, bad science, and pseudoscience. She also developed a website devoted to the same issues called Thinking Is Power. We discuss the challenges of pedagogy in the post truth world and how to help students learn how to think vs. what to think.
Links from the show:
From non-majors biology to critical thinking: An educator’s journey: Explanation and description of the course
Foundations in Critical Thinking: Articles that form the basis of the course curriculum
Wake up, Sheeple!: Conspiracy theory activity from class
Please don’t fail me!: Argumentation activity from class
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