Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
10 Commandments for Critical Thinking
In this collection of videos , Tom Chatfield eschews the biblical but embraces the practical as he gives specific guidance for training your brain to think critically. In a digital era delivering rivers of information awash in ‘fake news,’ the significance and sheer volume of this information make the question of how we engage with it a vital one.
Tom Chatfield on Critical Thinking and Bias
Philosopher Tom Chatfield’s media presence – which is substantial – is often directly linked to his writings on technology. But his new book is on critical thinking, and while that involves humanity’s oldest computer, the brain, Chatfield explains in this Social Science Bites podcast that new digital realities interact with old human biases.
Can Critical Thinking Be Taught in Business School?
In her editorial of the September issue of Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, Melinda Knight explains, There is universal agreement among educators […]
Teaching Business Students to Think Effectively
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Dr. Gerald F. Smith, Professor of Management at the University of Northern Iowa College of […]
How Digital Distraction Affects Our Workforce
Thanks to the vastness and immediacy of electronic media, we have the world at our fingertips. But are we better informed as […]
How did students become ‘academically adrift’?
‘Academically Adrift’, a new book on the failures of higher education, finds that undergraduates don’t study, and professors don’t make them. A […]
