Here are recommended resources related to critical thinking.
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Learning Apps
Interactive lessons for web and/or mobile.
Cranky Uncle
Tests and teaches fallacies and techniques used by people who push science disinformation.
Bad News
Role play spreading fake news on social media.
Breaking Harmony Square
Role play creating rage-bait on social media.
Informable
Practice distinguishing ads, faulty evidence, and fact from opinion. — News Literacy Project
Foolacy
Identify logical fallacies. — Critical Thinking Project
FactOpy
Distinguish fact from opinion. — Critical Thinking Project
Think-Keen
Learn about science misinformation and tricks of misleading statistics. — Critical Thinking Project
Activities & Info
News Literacy Project
Several lessons, quizzes, videos, activities, posters about how to discern misinformation and bias in news and social media.
How to Sell Pseudoscience in 9 Easy Steps
Activity/article by Thinking Is Power
Learn to be a psychic with these 7 tricks
Activity/article by Thinking Is Power
Your Bias Is Cognitive Biases
Your Logical Fallacy Is Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies
What’s the Harm?
The real dangers of false beliefs
Conspiracy Theories
List of false & actual conspiracies. Create your own conspiracy theory. — Critical Thinking Project
Conspiracy Chart
Chart of false & actual conspiracies
Wake up, Sheeple!
Create your own conspiracy theory. — Thinking Is Power
Food Labeling Tricks
Videos redesigning junk food packaging to make it look healthy, by Matt Rosenman
More examples by Brandon Shepherd:
Doritos,
Mountain Dew,
M&Ms
Pseudosciences
List of pseudosciences, alternative medicine, quack cures, and health myths. — Critical Thinking Project
Signs of Nonsense
Common traits of Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, False Advertising, and Propaganda. Create disinformation or a scam product. — Critical Thinking Project
Think-Keen Ideas
More ideas for assignments, activities, and discussions. — Critical Thinking Project
Mental Immunity Project
Lesson plans: Debunking a horoscope, Fallacies, Create a conspiracy theory, Create a pseudoscience ad
Behind the Curve
Excellent documentary about flat Earth believers, mostly how they think and their motivations, not physics facts (95 minutes)
Humor
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
Spoof on the dangers of H2O
Alternate Viewpoint Cancelling Headphones
Spoof commercial
Birds Aren’t Real
Spoof conspiracy theory
Books
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker, Ph.D. (2021)
Research
Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence.
Cook J, Lewandowsky S, Ecker UKH (2017)
Inoculation theory: Using misinformation to fight misinformation
Cook J (2014)
Inoculation Theory: Quick Look
The Media Ecology and Strategic Analysis Group
The relative efficacy of various types of prior belief-defense in producing immunity against persuasion.
McGuire, W. J., & Papageorgis, D. (1961). The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (not free)
Saying the wrong thing: improving learning with multimedia by including misconceptions
D.A. Muller, J. Bewes, M.D. Sharma, P. Reimann (2007)
Science Education in an Age of Misinformation
Osborne, J., Pimentel, D., Alberts, B., Allchin, D., Barzilai, S., Bergstrom, C., Coffey, J., Donovan, B., Kivinen, K., Kozyreva. A., & Wineburg, S. (2022). Stanford University