Critikid's A Statistical Odyssey Bundle includes one pass to A Statistical Odyssey plus a 14-class teaching pack with lesson plans, worksheets, and a cumulative assessment.
Recommended for ages 12 and up.
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Critikid's Emotional Intelligence course got a new review! This course teaches 5 to 7-year-olds to recognize, understand, and manage their emotions.
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Critikid’s Kids Bundle helps children ages 8-12 build critical thinking skills. It can be used by parents, homeschooling families, or classroom teachers. Your purchase includes lifetime access to all included resources.
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Critikid’s Logic Bundle introduces teens to the foundations of symbolic logic through a self-paced online course and worksheets. These are practical skills that can help teens think more carefully and make better sense of the claims they encounter in everyday life.
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So instead of the ad being seen only by people who happen to walk past the billboard, it's now being distributed all over the internet. I'd never heard of this company before seeing those posts. We need to be careful not to turn our outrage into free marketing.
There's a billboard for an AI assistant that says, "She outworks everyone and she never asks for a raise." People are making posts condemning it - with a photo of the billboard and the company name (often tagged). 👇
Critikid's Logical Fallacies Teachers' Bundle helps you teach 8-12-year olds about 10 logical fallacies:
Circular reasoning
Burden of proof
False dilemma
Tu quoque
Appeal to nature
Hasty generalization
Guilt by association
Middle ground
Slippery slope
Sunk cost
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Critical Thinking for the Digital Age is a 16-week, half-credit homeschool course for grades 8-12 that prepares teens to think critically about what they see online.
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Something I see on the internet more often than the Fallacy Fallacy is what I've been calling, for lack of a better name, the Fallacy Fallacy Fallacy. Read a post I wrote about it here:
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This free handbook gives an overview of six formal fallacies with real-world examples. It is recommended for teens and adults.
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Formal fallacies are mistakes in an argument's logical structure. Unlike informal fallacies, formal fallacies don't depend on context or subject matter: you can spot them even after translating the argument into symbols.
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"I am a university teacher and I am trained in statistics...and my score was not perfect. I loved the course, learned from it, and am recommending it to others (many who are not kids)." -Kiron
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A few people have asked me if I plan to make resources about AI Literacy for kids. While I don't have anything in the works at this time, I found a free series of lesson plans with videos for grades 6-12 by Common Sense Education: www.commonsense.org/education/co...
Curious to hear your thoughts on the Sleeping Beauty puzzle (which inspired me to write this one).
4. He then offers you a $1 million bonus if you can correctly say whether the coin under the cup shows heads or tails.
What should you say to maximize your chance of getting the bonus - or does it make no difference?
3. He tells all ten children the rules, but not the name he drew or the result of the coin flip. Then he meets them one at a time.
When he meets you, he says, "You will be receiving an inheritance." But he does not tell you whether you will receive the whole estate or only a share.
2. He then flips a coin and covers it with a cup. If the coin is heads, the child whose name he drew gets his entire estate. If the coin is tails, that child gets nothing and the other nine children split the estate equally.
1. An eccentric billionaire has ten children. You are one of them.
He writes each child's name on a slip of paper, draws one name at random, and looks at it. 👇
These free science literacy worksheets teach the difference between facts, laws, and theories. Recommended for ages 11 and up: critikid.com/worksheets/f...
Critikid currently offers 5 online, interactive critical thinking courses for kids and teens. There are also puzzles, worksheets, and lesson plans.
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I tried the "AI or Not?" Turing test. It got me. You can play here: humanornot.so
"The very idea that someone like me could get cancer was unfathomable—to both my peers and me. I ate only organic, non-GMO, low-carb foods. I avoided plastics and anything thought to be 'chemical.' I took handfuls of supplements every morning."
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A new thing I'm adding to Fallacy Detectors Part 2 is quizzes after every lesson where students have to determine whether a character is committing a fallacy or not. I'm also including some tricky examples so kids can practise telling when something is "fallacy-shaped" but valid in a given context.
"There lies a crucial paradox in critical thinking development: as we focus on mastering our critical thinking skills, we also learn to automate them—sometimes to their detriment."
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"A lot of this mistrust isn’t coming from stupidity or malice. It’s coming from a deep — and, in a way, understandable — misunderstanding of what science actually is."
Engineer Chloe Lipton explores why people are trusting TikTok over decades of research in her article:
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