Idea for teachers to tell students they will time to time say untrue things they expect students to catch.

I was just watching Niel DeGrasse Tyson's interview on Conan and I had an idea I think would be interesting for teachers in many classes, but especially history and science to use in class.

At the beginning of the year tell your students you will from time to time purposely say untrue things. The expectation is that students will do their own critical thinking and use the scientific method and logic to determine the facts.

Obviously, the things that are said need to have demonstrable evidence of truth, but I think it could be a good way to make sure kids are utilizing critical thinking.

Maybe this should be part of a critical thinking class, but I think it is important in this day and age to teach kids how to discern fact from fiction and also where there is room for interpretation and where there is a cold hard fact that cannot be refuted.

The more I write this entry the more I think this may need to be part of a critical thinking class where the students are forced to consider their own biases to help them know where they need to apply even more scrutiny on their beliefs.

Submitted May 16, 2017 at 09:10AM by lumpy1981 http://ift.tt/2rmVCOo