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- What Does It Mean to ‘Speak as a Woman’?
- Knowledge, Ignorance and Climate Change
- How Would You Draw History?
- #IAmSexist
- How to Fix Fake News
- What ‘Justice’ Really Means
- Trump’s New Taunt, Kavanaugh’s Defense and How Misogyny Rules
- Nietzsche Made Me Do It
- Wittgenstein’s Confession
- Germany’s Nazi Past Is Still Present
- Philosophy Now
- The Ethics of Education in the Secular State
- Phil Witte’s Cartoon
- News: December 2018 / January 2019
- Brains, Minds, Selves
- The Light From Our Eyes
- Philosophy for the Young, Medieval Style
- I Am Not A Brain by Markus Gabriel
- Should We Pursue Happiness?
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
- The Case Against Conceptual Art
- RSA Animate
- Making deliberative democracy work
- Community café
- The progressive case against UBI
- #iPlay4Peace
- Waking up to gender inequality
- Walking the tightrope on the future of work
- Design Thinking for Writing
- Inclusivity comes from respect not indignity
- Adventure learning at Crystal Palace Park
- Work and the Transition Myth
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- 3 Cheers for Metacognition
- Why Do People Mistake Narcissism for High Self-Esteem?
- Who's a Smart Dog?!
- A New Connection between the Gut and the Brain
- How to Overcome Feelings of Shame
- The Hippies Were Right: It's All about Vibrations, Man!
- Kids Today Are Being Socialized to Think They're Fragile Snowflakes
- Bad First Impressions Are Not Set in Stone
- More Than a Third of Female Suicides Are Committed by Indian Women
- Does Your Language Influence How You Think?
- TED talks
- The work that makes all other work possible | Ai-jen Poo
- A lesson on looking | Amy Herman
- How to motivate people to do good for others | Erez Yoeli
- 3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do | Stacey Abrams
- Confessions of a recovering micromanager | Chieh Huang
- Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke
- The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero | Gabby Rivera
- 100 solutions to reverse global warming | Chad Frischmann
- When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy? | Nita Farahany
- The radical possibilities of man-made DNA | Floyd E. Romesberg
Author Archives: Peter Ellerton
The value of subjective experience (or not)
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Free will and mobile phones
Can you prove you have free will?
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A Critical Thinking Matrix
Exploring the relationship between cognitive skills and the values of inquiry. Grey boxes describe student work. This can be used to generate rubrics. CT Matrix
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The Skills, Values and Virtues of Inquiry
A model for understanding effective thinking through categorising key educational ideas and examining the relationships between them. Skills Values and Virtues of Inquiry
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Science and art from Dilbert
Discuss.
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Why would anyone believe the Earth is flat?
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland Belief in a flat Earth seems a bit like the attempt to eradicate polio – just when you think it’s gone, a pocket of resistance appears. … Continue reading
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Dilbert on Zeno
Zeno does it again.
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We can’t trust common sense but we can trust science
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland When a group of Australians was asked why they believed climate change was not happening, about one in three (36.5%) said it was “common sense”, according to a report published last year by the … Continue reading
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What does it mean to think and could a machine ever do it?
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland The idea of a thinking machine is an amazing one. It would be like humans creating artificial life, only more impressive because we would be creating consciousness. Or would we? How can meat think? … Continue reading
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Teaching how to think is just as important as teaching anything else
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland A new paper on teaching critical thinking skills in science has pointed out, yet again, the value of giving students experiences that go beyond simple recall or learned procedures. It is a common lamentation … Continue reading
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Some useful tips on how to raise an argumentative child
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland The old adage that children should be seen and not heard is nothing but wishful thinking. Children are naturally inquisitive and they usually can’t help verbalising their curiosity. Asking “why?” is the most natural … Continue reading
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Working together for critical thinking in schools
Working together for critical thinking in schools Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland One of the most desirable characteristics of school graduates is that they can think critically. This helps them individually and also helps the societies in which they … Continue reading
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How to teach all students to think critically
How to teach all students to think critically Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them … Continue reading
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Do we live in a simulation?
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Digital Piracy
Is this a good analogy?
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Privacy vs Security
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A causal nightmare
More from Dilbert
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If it’s not right to rape a rapist, how can it be OK to kill a killer?
Discuss (1) this analogy and the (2) image below. (1) Here is the source article for the analogy. “That’s the thing. The reason why we would be hesitant to endorse it is that – what normal person would be paid to do something so … Continue reading
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Form the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy “The Principle of Sufficient Reason is a powerful and controversial philosophical principle stipulating that everything must have a reason or cause. This simple demand for thoroughgoing intelligibility yields some of the boldest and most … Continue reading
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The Anchoring Effect
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