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Chinn, Clark A.; Barzilai, Sarit; Duncan, Ravit Golan – Educational Psychologist, 2020
Events worldwide have heightened concerns that education is failing to prepare students for a "post-truth" world. A core "post-truth" challenge is the prevalence of deep epistemic disagreements: people fundamentally disagree about appropriate ways of knowing. We provide a new analysis of deep epistemic disagreements and propose…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Current Events, Value Judgment, Evaluative Thinking
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Chinn, Clark A.; Barzilai, Sarit; Duncan, Ravit Golan – Educational Researcher, 2021
In the so-called "post-truth" world, there exists widespread confusion and disagreement over what is known, how to know, and who to trust. Current education has largely failed to meet the challenges of this world. Grounded in a new analysis of the goals of epistemic education, we argue for new directions in instruction. Our analysis…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Change, Epistemology, Reliability
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Abed, Fayez; Barzilai, Sarit – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: YouTube is widely used for learning about scientific issues in and out of school. However, much of the scientific information on YouTube is inaccurate. Prior studies have mostly focused on how students evaluate textual online information sources and have not yet systematically examined how they evaluate authentic scientific YouTube…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Evaluative Thinking, Scientific and Technical Information