Totally concur that , "we need a knowledge-rich curriculum, but we also need to support the skills and heuristics involved in thinking critically." I appreciate the link to the study, and I will read later today. What is interesting about AI is that it is knowledge-rich, and yet, everyone concurs that it doesn't actually "think", thus it doesn't think critically. Today, many comment on the need for humans in a future with AI to think critically, and yet, as you raise in your thoughtful article, achieving that skill that is not as easy as it sounds, even when there is sufficient knowledge.
Totally concur that , "we need a knowledge-rich curriculum, but we also need to support the skills and heuristics involved in thinking critically." I appreciate the link to the study, and I will read later today. What is interesting about AI is that it is knowledge-rich, and yet, everyone concurs that it doesn't actually "think", thus it doesn't think critically. Today, many comment on the need for humans in a future with AI to think critically, and yet, as you raise in your thoughtful article, achieving that skill that is not as easy as it sounds, even when there is sufficient knowledge.