Never Stop Asking: Teaching Students to Be Better Critical Thinkers Lang-Raad Nathan D.

The modern K-12 teacher's must-have guide to teach students how to ask questions, weigh the evidence, and think critically and independentlyStudents and teachers alike face a dilemma: Why think deeply when we can just take a shortcut by googling something? If, as educators, we want to encourage our students to value thoughtfulness and to embrace the effort it takes to reach deep understandings, we must model that behavior ourselves. Why read an article when we can learn from a social media headline?

Nathan Lang-Raad shows K-12 teachers how human brains like to take mental shortcuts, known as heuristics, that allow the brain to save energy and perform more efficiently. In Never Stop Asking, author Dr. These heuristics, however, can lead to illogical thinking, cognitive biases, and fallacies that can hinder critical thinking.Never Stop Asking: Teaching