TER Topics - Teaching Thinking Skills

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This TER Topics episode brings together feature interviews from episodes #35 and #51 of the TER Podcast. The first interview is with Dr Steven Novella from November of 2014, discussing what critical thinking is, how to teach it, and the potential benefits to individuals and societies that value critical thinking. The second interview is with Meredith Ebbs from July of 2015 in which she talks about computational thinking and provides some insight into how it works as a teaching practice, as well as discussing issues of girls in STEM. Timecodes: 00:00 Opening Credits 00:34 Intro 02:05 Critical Thinking - Steven Novella 37:03 Computational Thinking - Meredith Ebbs 53:23 Sign off