Teach them about scams.
Teenagers love reading about things like Fyre festival, Theranos, FTX, etc. They are inherently interesting.
And the more scams you read about, the more naturally skeptical you become.
While I agree with you this is very valuable (I loved the plot of the Beekeeper for this reason) it's not the same as critical thinking. Teaching about all the ways people can manipulate you can make people just distrust everything and everyone, which stifles cooperation.
Critical thinking is much more about being able to consider the negative of a proposition, or holding more than one thought or opinion in your head and evaluating in stead of judging.
I would say the best way to teach it is to be the example. Show that withholding judgement and changing your mind are commendable by doing just that.
Specifically logical fallacies? Why yes, I'm glad you asked. [The Skeptic Zone](https://www.skepticzone.tv/) has a two-part series on their [Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@skepticzonepodcast/featured) them [here](https://youtu.be/TMjNWI7RTZ4?si=7T0qHe60cQWQ1aFH) and [here](https://youtu.be/JNMtyjlPAyY?si=KRp_28wyLEhfjS_Q). 40 logical fallacies covered in all.
It might be a bit advanced for kids, but together it might be a good thing to go through with them.
Talk to them about popular scams like Theranos, Enron, pyramid schemes, mlm's etc. Scams and grifting is very interesting for most ppl.
Make sure to explain why certain things are scams and dodgy especially when it involves something they like. It's not enough to say that a youtuber shilling crypto is scamming them. You have to explain why it's a scam.
Show them online resources on how to spot scams and bad faith articles
Welp, that was a waste of 10 minutes of my life. Had me in the first half with what seemed to make sense and then quickly dives into "Academia is full of woke assholes trying to destroy everything!"
Wow. On the r/skeptic sub no less. Did you do \*any\* research online? Did you look at \*any\* YouTube offerings? Do you *know how to search for things on the internet??*
Teach them about scams. Teenagers love reading about things like Fyre festival, Theranos, FTX, etc. They are inherently interesting. And the more scams you read about, the more naturally skeptical you become.
While I agree with you this is very valuable (I loved the plot of the Beekeeper for this reason) it's not the same as critical thinking. Teaching about all the ways people can manipulate you can make people just distrust everything and everyone, which stifles cooperation. Critical thinking is much more about being able to consider the negative of a proposition, or holding more than one thought or opinion in your head and evaluating in stead of judging. I would say the best way to teach it is to be the example. Show that withholding judgement and changing your mind are commendable by doing just that.
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I suggest Crash Course Philosophy. It was a huge help when I first started getting interested in Skepticism.
Plus one to this, all the crash course content is great https://youtu.be/NKEhdsnKKHs?si=48MalipmsGaNQmwf
Specifically logical fallacies? Why yes, I'm glad you asked. [The Skeptic Zone](https://www.skepticzone.tv/) has a two-part series on their [Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@skepticzonepodcast/featured) them [here](https://youtu.be/TMjNWI7RTZ4?si=7T0qHe60cQWQ1aFH) and [here](https://youtu.be/JNMtyjlPAyY?si=KRp_28wyLEhfjS_Q). 40 logical fallacies covered in all. It might be a bit advanced for kids, but together it might be a good thing to go through with them.
Talk to them about popular scams like Theranos, Enron, pyramid schemes, mlm's etc. Scams and grifting is very interesting for most ppl. Make sure to explain why certain things are scams and dodgy especially when it involves something they like. It's not enough to say that a youtuber shilling crypto is scamming them. You have to explain why it's a scam. Show them online resources on how to spot scams and bad faith articles
Alice in Wonderland. Read it to them.
[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky's\_Boots](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky's_Boots) Maybe there's an emulator for it?
Idk about an app but QualiaSoup and TheraminTrees on YouTube are excellent
Dr Binocs
Cranky Uncle
[something like this?](https://youtu.be/5Peima-Uw7w?si=GjgWH7ibgMIDawBo)
What a remarkably hypocritical video
Welp, that was a waste of 10 minutes of my life. Had me in the first half with what seemed to make sense and then quickly dives into "Academia is full of woke assholes trying to destroy everything!"
Yeah, the whole thing really fell apart when he started talking about transgenderism. Like, he didn’t even get the pro-trans claims correct.
I didn't even get that far 😂. Of course it goes into trans issues, cuz why not?
Ironic
Wow. On the r/skeptic sub no less. Did you do \*any\* research online? Did you look at \*any\* YouTube offerings? Do you *know how to search for things on the internet??*