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Actual Intelligence with Steve Pearlman
by Steve Pearlman, Ph.D.
One of the world's premiere critical thinking experts, you can view Dr. Steve Pearlman's viral Editor’s Pick TEDx talk here: https://youtu.be/Bry8J78Awq0?si=08vBAR1710mgQt0i pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com
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ChatGPT "Improves" Critical Thinking in Kids...But Not Really
📍 📍 📍 think. This study found some evidence for enhancing critical thinking through the use of ChatGBT. The researchers followed 25 students as they wrote essays with the assistance of ChatGPT. Afterwards, students reported gains in critical thinking, system thinking, and strategic competence....
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Free Your Brain from ChatGPT "Thinking"
If you you’re someone who values being able think independently, then you should be troubled by the fact that your brain’s operates all too much like ChatGPT. I’m going to explain how that undermines your ability to think for yourself, but I’ll also give you a key way to change it. How ChatGPT...
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Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?
Steve Pearlman: Today on actual intelligence, we have a very important and timely discussion with Dr. Robert Neber of a SU, whose recent opinion piece in inside higher education is titled AI and Higher Ed, and an impending collapse. Robert is a teaching professor and honors faculty fellow at the...
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Get Recognized for Thinking Outside the Box
How does your brain tackle a new problem? Believe it or not, it tackles new problems by using old frameworks it created for similar problems you faced before. But if your brain is wired to use old frameworks for new problems, then isn’t that a problem? It is. And that’s why most people never…
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Did the APA just end critical thinking in colleges?
Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe FREE to receive new posts and support my work. APA to Students: Don't Bother to Think for Yourselves Anymore. Let AI Do It. If in the future you want a psychologist who can actually think about psychology, or a doctor who…
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Kids Want Off Their Phones. Here's How!
Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! This post is public so feel free to share it. Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Want Your Kids Off Their Phones: They Just Told Us How to Do…
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Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”
Is ChatGPT dumbing down your kid? It is and here’s what you can do. A new MIT study reveals the powerful consequences of artificial intelligence on actual intelligence, and guess what? Simply (and terrifyingly) put, the use of artificial intelligence undermines your child’s actual intelligence.…
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Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”
We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence. If you're an educator or parent--or if you're anyone who just thinks that thinking is important--then you need to learn about this study. It offers hard evidence that our young people are in…
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QUICK TIP: Unlocking Divergent Thinking--The Physical Connection
Stuck in a mental rut? Need a way to break out of your current thought patterns? Want to unlock and unleash your creative, divergent, disruptive thinking skills? Who doesn't? Listen to learn how! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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Headagogy Update!
More Headagogy coming soon! Also, check out The Critical Thinking Institute pdocast, with me!!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stevenjpearlman.substack.com
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Thinking Critically in College with Louis Newman
Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success. What's the relationship between thinking and studentship? How can we -- and why should we -- move students to think about disciplinarity? Are colleges promoting the thinking of...
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ChatGPT - A Loaded Blessing In Disguise?
Is ChatGPT friend or foe? Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms? Is "the academic essay dead"? Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool for critical thinking that we should embrace as a new ally in teaching students? As Steve discusses,...
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Rubric Nation: Are We Rubricizing Our Humanity (Part 2)
Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing, Joe, Michelle, and Steve get into rubrics and questions of ... privilege and the expression of structuralized racism the effort to dismantle public education through…
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Rubric Nation: Are we Rubricizing our Humanity?
Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubricization, as well as whatever it is that we are doing, good and bad, as an educational system regarding teaching, learning, democracy, assessment, studentship,...
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Frances Valintine: Progressive Teaching; Institutional Shifting
Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson in 2014. Frances is a member of the New Zealand Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs (2022), and named one of the top 50 EdTech Educators in the…
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Academic Rigor-mortis: A possible cure?
Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless perfectly sensible--root of its challenges. Student vs. faculty conceptions of rigor G.I. infections "Summer School" This is a public episode. If you would like...
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NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 2)
Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the academy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stevenjpearlman.substack.com
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NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 1)
Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after receiving a petition from students complaining about his course. What's really at the heart of NYU's actions? What role did the petition play? What role should…
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Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 2)
Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time. What really...
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Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 1)
Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time. What really...
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Supercourses, with Ken Bain
Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do, joins Headagogy to discuss his latest book, Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning. The discussion with Bain not only delves into examples of these courses and their relationship with problem...
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Ungrading through Peer Assessment (Part 3)
In this concluding episode on peer assessment, Steve conveys the research on peer assessment, learning outcomes, and soft skills. There should be no doubts about its value, especially, in the words of Walter Lippman, "It takes wisdom to understand wisdom. The music means nothing if the audience…
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Ungrading through Peer Assessment (Part 2)
Continuing his assessment into peer assessment as an important method of ungrading, Steve not only talks about how he implements it, but several other important issues, such as how peer assessment: De-emphasizes the focus on grades Relieves students' stress Fosters democratic ideals and an...
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Ungrading Through Peer Assessment (Part 1)
In this first episode of a three part series, Steve delves into the hot topic of "ungrading" with a focus on the particular and unique value that involving students in assessment brings to the greater ungrading discussion. Learn more about grades as the locus of power in academia, the unconscious...
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The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 2)
The continuation of the interview with Kieran O'Mahony. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stevenjpearlman.substack.com
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The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 1)
This interview with Kieran delves into fascinating neuroscience about learning that can help transform what we do in our classrooms through understanding things like the Reticular Activating System, working memory, and neurotransmitters. Kieran offers concrete things every educator can…
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A Time Machine out of a DeLorean? STEM, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
What is the relationship between STEM and creativity? Or, at least, what's the perceived relationship? And what happens when we invest millions of dollars and years of effort to improving STEM educational practices? What happens cognitively when we do it well for just a few months? All that and...
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Dr. Cornelius Grove & "A Mirror for Americans"
Steve interviews Dr. Cornelius N. Grove about his most recent book, A Mirror for Americans, which delves into the research as to why students in East Asia invariably outperform American students on international tests. The discussion explores myths about education in East Asia, such as the...
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Thinking Critically about Critical Race Theory
Steve tackles some of the controversy around Critical Race Theory (CRT), in part by examining its lineage back to critical theory and critical pedagogy. In doing so, he delves into broader question of how power is wielded in the academy, and what the academy is as a power structure. Curiously,...
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Relationship Rich Education with Peter Felten and Leo Lambert
What's "imposter syndrome" and how does it impact our students' relationship with us? How does it impact our relationship with students? Just how critical are our relationships with students with respect to their academic success and our achievement of desired learning outcomes? What are simple...
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Critical Thinking vs. Content: Resolving the Frictions
Do you want to teach critical thinking but struggle to do so given how much content you need to cover? Do you feel departmental, institutional, or disciplinary pressures to cover certain material? What are the four major objections educators voice about teaching critical thinking relative to...
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Ungrading: What? How? Why?
Jesse Stommel of the University of Denver, author of An Urgency of Teachers, and “ungrading” maven joins Steve for a thought provoking and, at times, joyously contentious discussion about inviting students to assign their own grades to themselves. Ultimately, the conversation swerves into…
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A Thousand Neuroscientific Imperatives for Teaching Critical Thinking
Steve delves into A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins, which holds immediate implications for the teaching of critical thinking as understood through the literal functions of neurons! But contrary to the title, teaching critical thinking doesn’t become easier through...
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The Critical Thinking Skills Educators Value
Want to know what your colleagues mean when they talk about "critical thinking"? Want to know how to stimulate dialogue about it at your institution? Want to know why Steve is like Annie Wilkes? Two recent studies shed new light on how educators conceptualize critical thinking and, more...
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Creating "solutionaries" with Zoe Weil
We're excited to welcome Zoe Weil from the Institute for Humane Education Zoe is the author of The World Becomes What We Teach and is a notable TedX contributor. Zoe focuses her work on helping educators build "solutionaries" who tackle real world problems. Join us as we discuss the overlays...
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Fighting Fake News: The Critical Thinking Rabbit Hole
A recent article in The New York Times argued that critical thinking is a dangerous "rabbit hole" and isn't the right tool for fighting "fake news." Dave and Steve discuss the article's alternative, and, of course, advocate for stronger critical thinking in media literacy. This is a public…
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Improving Outcomes When Lecturing Online (or not)
Did you know that at any given point during an online lecture, 40% of students' minds are wandering? Join Dave and Steve to learn about "persistence" vs. "transience" in memory, and how to improve your learning outcomes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...
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Fake News but Real Education
Dave and Steve return with a podcast on combating fake news and why we should all be jealous of Finland. Also, the new Critical Thinking Initiative Online learning experience, and Steve's new book, America's Critical Thinking Crisis: The Failure and Promise of Education. This is a public episode....
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How Humans Learn
Join us for an exciting announcement and an interview with John Eyler, Ph.D., author of How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching. Wishing everyone wellness, safety, and satisfying teaching (or a much needed break!) in this time of COVID. This is a public…
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Quick Tips for Online Learning Satisfaction
Given the sudden mass migration to online learning because of COVID19, The Critical Thinking Initiative offers this brief, "emergency" podcast about simple measures every instructor, K-Ph.D.--can take to ensure that the online learning experience is a positive one for the students. Please feel...
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Does Higher Education Improve Critical Thinking?
Steve and Dave delve into recent research on critical thinking growth throughout college. Learn the extent to which it is happening and why. Warning: this episode may contain some ranting. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
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How to offer students feedback. Or not.
Steve and Dave tackle the complex issue of how to respond to student work effectively. Spoiler alert: It's somewhere between a pat on the back and psychiatric analysis. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Getting Thoughtful About Mindfulness Education
Mindfulness education is gaining popularity in academia, but does helping students get their Zen on also help them to think critically? Take some deep breaths, find your center, and start listening! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access…
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Do Grades Hinder Learning?
Steve & Dave respond to an article and, more broadly, to the "ungrading" movement, which assert that grades interfere with deeper learning. Listen in to find out why grades do, don't, and shouldn't hinder learning, and how we can use them constructively. Also, a little known fact about Zeus. This...
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Straight from the Wyoming Institute
Several faculty members from the University of Wyoming share their perspectives on critical thinking after a three-day workshop with Dave and Steve. This is a rare opportunity to listen to other educators' perspectives on incorporating critical thinking into their teaching practice. This is a...
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Should thinking really be "critical"?
Dave and Steve engage the questions and critiques around whether or not the term "critical" is the best one for the kind of thinking we want students to do. Do its connotations outweigh its intention? Is there a term that's better? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...
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Wicked Problems: An Interview with Jackson Nickerson
Steve and Dave welcome Jackson Nickerson, Ph.D., who is the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at the Olin School of Business, and who founded the Leading Thinking program through Brookings Executive Education. This is a powerful conversation that culminates in the many risks for...
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Are X-labs the Future of Learning and Thinking?
Steve and Dave look at the recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about James Madison University's X-lab, and they examine rising contemporary calls for opportunities for students to innovate and problem solve. Are X-Labs the future of learning? Should your school have one? In...
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Interview with Michael S. Roth
Dave and Steve welcome Michael S. Roth, author of Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. Michael offers wonderful perspectives on the relationship between critical thinking, the liberal arts, and interdisciplinary. He also raises critical perspectives about the importance of…
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Do Some Video Games Promote Critical Thinking?
What's the relationship between certain video games and critical thinking skills? According to some recent assertions, select video games promote critical thinking by creating rich worlds in which players must make difficult choices. To what extent do those choices foster critical thinking? And…
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