Tom Chatfield
I'm writing my first textbook, on a subject I'm passionate about: critical thinking in a digital age.
Traditional critical thinking focuses on arguments and logic, and being able to tell apart good reasoning from bad reasoning. This is still extremely important; but I want to expand this kind of critical engagement towards the technologies we now use almost every time we begin to explore the world of ideas, information, opinions and evidence.
What does it mean to be a critically-engaged user of technology, more confidently able to explore and critique the information it puts in front of you - and more aware of biases, from filter bubbles to network effects, that can mould our view of the world without us being aware?
Hopefully, my book will help equip students and others with some of the tools they need to do this more confidently, and feel more in control of their intellectual lives in the 21st century.
Traditional critical thinking focuses on arguments and logic, and being able to tell apart good reasoning from bad reasoning. This is still extremely important; but I want to expand this kind of critical engagement towards the technologies we now use almost every time we begin to explore the world of ideas, information, opinions and evidence.
What does it mean to be a critically-engaged user of technology, more confidently able to explore and critique the information it puts in front of you - and more aware of biases, from filter bubbles to network effects, that can mould our view of the world without us being aware?
Hopefully, my book will help equip students and others with some of the tools they need to do this more confidently, and feel more in control of their intellectual lives in the 21st century.
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