What is Critical Thinking

With social media companies such as Meta, removing fact checking and a lot of misinformation being sent out. We need to understand Critical Thinking so we can sort through the information we are exposed to, and pick out factual, evidence based facts.

We need to look at the Who, What, When, Where,, Why, and How, so in essence we are asking open questions, as in those which we can't generally just answer with yes or no.

Related Links

• Critical thinking web

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#Information,#Facts,#Lies,#Misinformation#CriticalThinking

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What is the UK Playing at?

It seems despite the endless warnings on impending climate collapse, the call for immediate halt to fossil fuels. The UK Prime minister has decided to issue 100's of new Licenses to extract oil and gas from the North Sea.

This appears to be so we can increase our energy security. This of course is garbage, we can produce our energy needs using renewable means, we just need to get this capacity connected to the national grid. We just need to ban the sale of gas appliances, retrain people in the newer tech so we can minimise job losses and find more sustainable ways of doing things.

At the same time, we are trying to tell other countries to cut down on fossil fuels, we need to lead by example.

In the meantime it seems claims the heatwaves are false are being spread via mainstream social media. From this it looks like X / Twitter is at the centre of all this.

This is why I use fedi, intelligent people, having intelligent conversations and discussions, encouraging critical thinking and understanding of the science, hence recent posts on here about theory and hypothesis.

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#UK,#Oil,#Gas,#Climate,#misinformation,#Policies,#WeNeedToActNow

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Why are we rewriting history.

In another disturbing twist as to how right wing racist are trying to rewrite history to remove references to race.

This can't be allowed to happen, one way to fight this is to share what is going on, preserve the ORIGINAL story narrative so that future generations know full well Rosa was asked to move due to HER COLOR.

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#History #CriticalRaceTheory #WhiteSupremacy #Misinformation #ThereIsOnlyOneTruth

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Code Club 17/9/2022

The next Paignton Library code club is on 17th September. There will be the usual mix of coding, troubleshooting and discussions. I

We now have some of the Vodafone resources so will be sharing them if anyone is interested.

We still have a few printed resources, which will be binned if no one wants them. Simple fact is, we are running out of space.

Links

• Paignton Library
• Code Club
  • Projects and activities
  • Environment
  • Space Projects
  • Scratch
• E-safety * Vodafone digital parenting
  • Social media Checklist
• Online information
• Sense about Science
  • Sense about Science – peer review
• Supporting critical thinking and reliability online
• LateX Bibliographies

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#CodeClub,#Information,#RaspberryPi,#Troubleshooting, #esafety,#misinformation,#SenseAboutScience,#Vodafone, #DigitalParenting,#StudySkills

Next session

• Next Week is the STEM Group meeting 10/9/2022
• Next Code Club is Saturday 17th September 2022.

Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.

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Code Club 3/9/2022

The next Paignton Library code club is on 3rd September. There will be the usual mix of coding, troubleshooting and discussions. I should have some e-safety resources too.

Links

• Paignton Library
• Code Club
  • Projects and activities
  • Environment
  • Space Projects
  • Scratch
• E-safety * Vodafone digital parenting
  • Social media Checklist
• Online information
• Sense about Science
  • Sense about Science – peer review
• Supporting critical thinking and reliability online

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#CodeClub,#Information,#RaspberryPi,#Troubleshooting, #esafety,#misinformation,#SenseAboutScience,#Vodafone, #DigitalParenting

Next session

• Next Week is the STEM Group meeting 10/9/2022
• Next Code Club is Saturday 17th September 2022.

Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.

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Code Club 20/8/2022 Write up

So we had another quiet session today, with 4 young people, plus a parent, nevertheless it was productive. Time was initially split between looking for an iphone cable (could not find one), and also troubleshooting a Raspberry Pi, which seemed more successful.

There was also a discussion on e-safety, in terms of posting online and how this can have consequences later on, employers can do searches on applicants for example and also what to post, also a brief discussion on asking for evidence and finding proper, credible information on the internet, I did give peer review a brief mentiobn

It seems really beneficial to have conversations.

This has prompted me to dig out a few resources I have here at home. These are set to one side for the next session. I have also asked the library if they can send off for some copies of the Vodafone digital parenting resource.

We also have access to a tablet with the Lego WeDo software installed so if anyone is interested they can have a go at code club without having to bring along own devices. However attendees can, it really helps as you can store projects on your own device.

Links

• Paignton Library
• Code Club
  • Projects and activities
• Scratch
• E-safety * Vodafone digital parenting
  • Social media Checklist
• Online information
• Sense about Science
  • Sense about Science – peer review
• Supporting critical thinking and reliability online

Tags

#CodeClub,#Information,#RaspberryPi,#Troubleshooting, #esafety,#misinformation,#SenseAboutScience,#Vodafone, #DigitalParenting

Next session

• Next Code Club is Saturday 3th September 2022.

Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.

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Reverse Image Search

Latest resource in the Data Detox kit from Tactical Tech is reverse image searching. This helps you identify the source of an image, which in turn helps you differentiate between accurate and misinformation.

These resources are well worth checking out. I am still planning on trying to do a talk on privacy at a future STEM group event.

Could be something to discuss at the STEM group meeting or via Discourse or on Mastodon.

Links

• Reverse Image Search
• Data Detox Kit
• Paignton Library STEM Group
• Tactical Tech
• Discourse
• Tineye

Tags

#Data,#Misinformation,#DataDetox,#STEM,#Information,#esafety,

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