Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

This is a new website section that is just getting started and sorted out - but please feel free to view the initial posts.

• Logical fallacies as persuasion tactics
  They've been around since ancient times and have always been used to persuade. audiences by bypassing their critical thinking. In the age of AI, modern sophists have embraced them. Check out the list of 12 logical fallacies commonly used as persuasion tools today.
  
  
• View the AI thinking traps
  In initial list of AI thinking traps and red flags that can affect cognitive development. 
  
  
• Read the speech
  I gave this speech on Protecting Critical Thinking in the Age of AI at an education event hosted at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., called Making Meaning in the 21st Century. It provides my perspective, and offers some practical ideas for educators.