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The importance of democratic education in the era of “Fake News” cannot be overstated. How might one model of teaching help our students to “Think Like A Gambler, Not Like a Fan?” The importance of teaching students how to think critically to find truth and not simply to defend pre-determined positions is central. In the push to reach the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, we’ve passed over some of the foundational lynchpins of true learning. In this piece, I tell why and how to change what we see in our students.
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Steinmetz, A. (2021). Teach Your Students to Think Like a Gambler, Not Like a Fan: How I Use EIC to Prepare My Students for the Future. In: Fischer, J.M., Mazurkiewicz, G. (eds) The Personal, Place, and Context in Pedagogy. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71423-9_21
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