An interesting article [ pdf mirror ] about distortion in the media which should give you an idea of why a course on critical thinking is a very good thing. I am not suggesting that you guys are not critical thinkers but that quite often people try to mislead or misdirect us and we can't always easily recognise the kinds of tricks that they are using to do this. Additionally it is also difficult to adopt the more adversarial mindset in which the media has to make its case to us before we believe them. Hopefully, by the end of this course we will be better at recognising the tricks that are used against us and will have a more critical default stance.
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Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
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