Clark Chinn
@clarkchinn
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A professor of Educational Psychology, focusing on research to understand and improve thinking in general and scientific reasoning in particular.
Joined March 2011
How can we address post-truth problems through education? In this thread, @SaritBarzilai introduces a special issue on this topic that she and I guest edited in @EdPsychJournal. @educationarena @Routledgepsych @tandfonline @apadivision15 @aeradivc.
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RT @JLearnSciences: In their article in @JLearnSciences, @JeffGreeneLearn, @clarkchinn, and Victor Deekens explored whether and how experts….
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Background: The modern world is rife with complex challenges that require citizens to weigh multiple, conflicting claims and competing methods for discerning truth from falsehood. Such evaluations ...
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Important discussions of educational responses to the "post-truth" world are also in this special issue of @EdPsychJournal:
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Educational Responses to a “Post-Truth” World: Diverse Approaches to Improving Thinking About Scientific Issues. Volume 55, Issue 3 of Educational Psychologist
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There is a need to design and test new kinds of instruction to advance these directions—building on much existing research. 7/7.
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5. Promote understanding of epistemic systems. The reliability of systems like science & journalism comes from their social nature. Educators should focus much more on helping students understand what makes such systems reliable or not. 6/7.
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4. Promote virtuous epistemic motivations and emotions. This includes supporting student autonomy as they create public norms for their own thinking, nurturing intellectual virtues like open-mindedness, and more. 5/7.
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3. Conduct inquiries into knowing. When science & other reliable ways of knowing are under attack, citizens need to be able to understand and discuss why some ways of knowing are reliable are more reliable than others. 4/7.
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2. Support adaptive epistemic performance with bounded knowledge. This means learning when one can evaluate the evidence oneself and when one needs to rely on experts. A focus on learning to identify who to trust, and why. 3/7.
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1. Design increasingly authentic, “epistemically unfriendly” learning environments so that students learn to deal with the messiness of the real, "post-truth" digital world. 2/7.
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In this new paper in @ERjournal, @SaritBarzilai, Ravit Golan Duncan, and I provide five directions for educational research and instruction to prepare students to cope with the “post-truth” world. 1/7.
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RT @JeffGreeneLearn: In addition, for people who are interested in science, acceptance, misinformation, etc. I recommend you check out this….
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Educational Responses to a “Post-Truth” World: Diverse Approaches to Improving Thinking About Scientific Issues. Volume 55, Issue 3 of Educational Psychologist
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RT @MichaelDavSmith: When other people got COVID-19, Chris Christie said some Americans are just gonna have to die. Now that he has COVID-1….
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RT @cornelia_schoor: 4 post-truth problems to be addressed:.1. lack of knowledge how to evaluate information.2. cognitive biases and limita….
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Educators have been increasingly concerned with what can be done about “post-truth” problems—that is, threats to people's abilities to know what is true—such as the spread of misinformation and den...
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RT @marclamonthill: RT if you pay more in taxes than President Trump.
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RT @RutgersCommInfo: A survey that #RUSCI’s @abjordan505 and @vikki_katz co-led, focuses on the impact online learning has had on Rutgers s….
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RT @KamalaHarris: Tonight we mourn, we honor, and we pray for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her family. But we also recommit to fight for….
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RT @AOC: We have lost a giant in the history of our nation with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is heartbreaking that in her final….
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RT @BarackObama: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals.….
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Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She’d studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing…
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