Relationship between social media use and critical thinking in university students - Education and Information Technologies
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Relationship between social media use and critical thinking in university students - Education and Information Technologies
Memorizing facts is becoming less important than knowing how to ask the right questions and evaluate AI-generated responses. Yet this same technology that can accelerate learning also risks creating dependency if we don’t learn to leverage it strategically.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Learning How to Learn
Does social media help or hinder critical thinking? That depends. Social platforms are a great place to find subjects to think critically about, but without the proper fact-checking, they can be a tool for both misinformation and disinformation.
The aims are both to improve the quality of AI-assisted tasks and also to empower users to de-velop their skills and maintain a balanced “relationship” with AI. To address task confidence recalibration, AI tools could incorpo-rate feedback mechanisms that help users gauge the reliability of AI outputs, when to trust the AI and when to apply their... See more