Curriculum Update and Fre-ebook Tuesdays
Just a couple of quick announcements, including word that the Critical Voter curriculum is now complete. The curriculum includes a complete list of learning objectives, lesson plans and “Check for...
View ArticleFre-ebook Tuesdays!
From today until July 19th, the Kindle version of Critical Voter will be available for free from Amazon. Tell your friends, your relatives, your colleagues and co-workers that the tool they need to get...
View ArticleStory Telling
In a chapter of Critical Voter dedicated to bias, I talk about how early ideas that attributed the human tendency to act illogically to our emotions overwhelming our reason had to be updated once it...
View ArticleAnother Fre-ebook Tuesday
Just a reminder that today is another Fre-ebook Tuesday where you can get the Kindle version of Critical Voter free from Amazon. Pass along the link/word and remember that Fre-ebook Tuesdays will...
View ArticleDoubt
While blogging recently at my favorite philosophy web site, I mentioned one theory of how thinking (critically or not) evolved out of a nagging desire inherent in the human species to eliminate (or at...
View ArticleNoise
When introducing Critical Voter to friends and colleagues, I tend to describe it as my attempt to use election politics to teach critical thinking skills, an effort that (given this year’s primary...
View ArticleAnother Fre-ebook Tuesday
Another chance to get a free Kindle version of Critical Voter by visiting Amazon today. Also, check out some philosophical musings I just wrote at my favorite philosophy site. The post Another...
View ArticleConvergence
In my day job as an educational researcher, I encounter a great many educational standards and other works trying to help ascertain the knowledge, skills and abilities students need to learn to succeed...
View ArticleConventional Wisdom
Last chance to receive a free Kindle version of Critical Voter at Amazon, with the last Fre-ebook Tuesday of the season. Speaking of free, with the convention season kicking off I thought I’d provide a...
View ArticlePlagiarism
The big political news from last week was the Republican nominating convention and, if you judge the importance of stories based on time spent spinning in the news cycle, it seems as though the Yugist...
View ArticleThe Single Issue Voter
“It’s been six days since the Reticulan battle fleet entered Earth orbit, and today this unearthly race of reptilian shapeshifters issued their demands that Earth submit to their will and surrender...
View ArticleArgument Ninja
As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of Kevin deLaplante, the man behind Critical Thinker Academy and Critical Thinker Academy podcast, both of which were hugely inspirational when I went down the route...
View ArticleThe Gaffe
One of the great pleasures in life is to watch someone you can’t stand make a blunder, preferably publicly, and suffer ridicule (or worse) as the result. In politics, such blunders are referred to as...
View ArticleCritical Voter – Available Everywhere!
As Degree of Freedom News subscribers heard earlier week, the ebook version of Critical Voter is now available on all major ebook platforms including iTunes, Barnes and Noble/Nook, Kobo and all of the...
View ArticleThe Crowd
One of the things we are supposed to be celebrating in this era of social media, open-source everything, citizen journalism, and various forms of “super-enabling” Internet politics is how it frees us...
View ArticleBritish Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
On a recent drive, my son introduced me to the phrase which headlines this post, which reminded me that one of the great beauties of language, and a key pillar of verbal humor, is ambiguity. “British...
View ArticleDisorientation
During a normal election year, you can set your watch based on the following stages of bias overwhelming the ability to think critically: Stage 1: Primary Season During this period, minds of even the...
View ArticleFault Lines
One of the latest mini-twists to come out of this year’s twisted election season has to do with polling indicating that voters (particularly younger voters) Hillary Clinton has been counting on seem...
View ArticleAn End to Rhetoric?
Four years ago, I did some handicapping of the first Presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barak Obama based on each candidate’s rhetorical success or failure. As it turned out, that first...
View ArticleFact Checking
We seem to be entering that phase of the election cycle when fact-checking becomes an obsession on the part of the candidates, the media and the electorate. Back in ancient times (but within recent...
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