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We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process, especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.
Outlines recommendations for critical thinking practices that meet the challenges of the digital age's misinformation, demonstrating...
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"Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker...
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"When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators,...
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New York Times Bestseller.
Based on the wildly popular commencement address, the art of asking (and answering) good questions by the Dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Whether we're in the boardroom or the classroom, we spend far too much time and energy looking for the right answer. But the truth is that questions are just as important as answers, often more so. If you ask the wrong question, for instance, you're guaranteed...
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We live in an era of misinformation, much of it spread by authority figures, including politicians, religious leaders, broadcasters, and, of course, apps and websites. With so much bogus information coming from so many sources, how can anyone be expected to discover the truth? In Debunk It, author John Grant uses modern, ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to identify bad evidence and poor arguments. He provides a roundup of...
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Tilbury House Publishers
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Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing through big lies and thinking critically, because big lies...
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The MIT Press
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[2017]
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English
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In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten. To thrive in today's fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively-and...
11) Sugar
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2009]
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English
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Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
12) My brave life!
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2020]
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English
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"Children will learn important life lessons and healthy ways to deal with emotions through these interactive activities and books. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including Academics' Choice Smart Media Book Award, Children's Technology Review: Editor's Choice, Parents' Choice, and more. Learn about emotions; Explore healthy eating habits; Develop logic and problem-solving skills; Read along with interactive storybooks."--
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Playaway Products, LLC
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[2023]
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English
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"Kids will have fun learning about different kinds of pets as they improve reading comprehension, explore interactive stories, practice math skills, critical thinking, and more."
Pets on Earth have been kidnapped and taken into outer space to be made as space pets for the aliens! Your task is to blast away asteroids containing the right answers to math problems. The more levels you complete, the more keys you earn.
Spend the day with Maggie the...
14) Tang Feng de po kuang si kao li: guan yu gong zuo, xue xi yu xing dong de fang fa = Thinking skills
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Cai jing qi guan volume 780
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Yuan jian tian xia wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
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2022.
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中文
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2018]
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English
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"Children will develop problem-solving, hand-eye coordination, and strategic thinking skills as they move from game to game searching for hidden objects, identifying landmarks, and more. Search for objects; Build knowledge of geography; Explore new places; Develop problem-solving skills."--
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