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Reviving Critical Thinking & Restoring Well-Being in a World of AI & Content Overload

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Session description

Let’s do more to help young people thrive in a social media-saturated, information-overloaded world. Come learn a six-step framework to help young people become more self-aware and independent thinkers. See how critical thinking and media literacy can improve students’ mental health and overall well-being.

Outline

Introduction: 5 minutes. Provide outline of the problem. Young people are overloaded with information -- including a great deal of misinformation -- which makes it difficult to think clearly. Cite evidence about declining attention spans, rise in mental health challenges, and a decline in critical thinking skills.

Solution: 20 minutes. Walk through the 6 step process to bolster self-awareness and critical thinking to equip young people with skills to thrive in a rapidly changing digital world. These steps include assessing what they feel, believe, and know when it comes to different online content and evaluating author credibility, evidence, and influence tactics in social media.

Practice: 20 minutes. Participants go through the 6 steps and to practice these skills with a set of social media posts about topics in health, environment, politics, and money/finance, including posts that are unreliable and posts that are reliable.

Discussion & next steps. Share experiences with each other and whole group to consider potential uses of the framework in their own work.

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Supporting research

There are many books about how to help people become more skilled readers/viewers of online information. A partial list includes:

Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects our Minds and How to Build Immunity by Sander Van Der Linden

Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth by Leslie Stebbins

America’s Critical Thinking Crisis: The failure and promise of education by Steven Pearlman

The Social Media Diet: Helping Young People Be Smart Consumers Online by Jim Wasserman and Jian Wasserman

Developing Digital Detectives: Essential lessons for discerning fact from fiction in the “Fake News” era by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins

How We Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs

Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online by Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg

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Presenters

Dr. James Damico

Professor

Indiana University

Session specifications

Topic:

Mental Health and Wellbeing

TLP:

Yes

Grade level:

6-12

Audience:

District Level Leadership, Higher Ed, Technology Coach/Trainer

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS

Subject area:

Technology Education, Other: Please specify

ISTE Standards:

For Students:
Empowered Learner

Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Knowledge Constructor

Evaluate the accuracy, validity, bias, origin, and relevance of digital content.

TLPs:

Develop Expertise, Ignite Agency