Preparing students to engage with science- and technology-related misinformation: The role of epistemic insight
Preparing students to engage with science- and technology-related misinformation: The role of epistemic insight
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让学生做好接触科学技术相关错误信息的准备：认知洞察力的作用
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10.1002/curj.190
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2022
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Billingsley B
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Billingsley B
在快速数字化的世界中，帮助学生增强对网络错误信息的抵御能力被广泛认为是教育的一项基本任务。学生需要科学知识和认知洞察力来浏览包含耸人听闻的科技发展报告的在线空间。认知洞察力涉及认知好奇心和批判性思考知识的本质、应用和交流的能力。这包括培养对科学的力量和局限性的理解，以及对科学与其他学科的关系的好奇心。我们为 16-18 岁的学生举办了一个题为“科学技术能否治愈孤独？”的研讨会，旨在通过多学科视角研究孤独，培养学生的认知洞察力。我们讨论了本次研讨会的设计和教学法如何帮助学生建立认知上的谦逊——认识到没有任何单一的学科视角可以完善我们对某一特定主题的知识。作为更广泛计划的一部分，基于认知洞察力的教学法有可能培养学生对与科学技术相关的错误信息的抵抗力，并为他们在塑造我们的科学技术未来中发挥潜在作用做好准备。
Helping students to become more resilient to online misinformation is widely recognised as an essential task for education in a rapidly digitalising world. Students need both scientific knowledge and epistemic insight to navigate online spaces containing sensationalised reports of scientific and technological developments. Epistemic insight involves epistemic curiosity and the ability to think critically about the nature, application and communication of knowledge. This includes developing an understanding of the power and limitations of science and a curiosity regarding its relationship with other disciplines. We present a workshop designed for school students aged 16–18 titled ‘Can science and technology cure loneliness?’, designed to develop students' epistemic insight through investigating loneliness through a multidisciplinary perspective. We discuss how the design and pedagogy of this workshop might help students to build epistemic humility—the recognition that no single disciplinary perspective can complete our knowledge about a given topic. As part of a broader programme, epistemic insight‐based pedagogies have the potential to develop students' resistance to science‐ and technology‐related misinformation and prepare them for their potential role in shaping our scientific and technological future.