AI and Critical Thinking

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Homeschooling with Technology

Meryl van der Merwe

300 episodes

13 hours ago

The Homeschooling with Technology Podcast is a weekly show, hosted by Meryl van der Merwe, where she shares ideas on how to use technology to be more productive as a homeschool parent and on how to use technology to make lessons more engaging. In addition, she covers techie skills your children need to learn and how to easily incorporate them into your homeschooling. Meryl homeschooled her 4 children after working as a computer programmer for many years. She uses technology whenever she can when teaching both live co-op classes and online classes for homeschoolers. In this podcast, she shares all the best tech resources she finds with you.

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AI and Critical Thinking

Homeschooling with Technology

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2 weeks ago

AI and Critical Thinking

346: AI and Critical Thinking
In this episode, Meryl is joined once again by Critical Thinking in the Digital Age instructor Stephanie Simoes to explore how AI is impacting students’ ability to think deeply and critically. The two discuss an MIT study that sparked widespread concern, the concept of cognitive offloading, and how parents can teach their teens to use AI responsibly without losing their own reasoning skills.

Listen to get insights on:

What the “Your Brain on ChatGPT” study actually found—and why it’s been misunderstood

What cognitive offloading means and when it’s useful vs. harmful

The critical thinking and fact-checking skills students need before using AI tools

How expertise and intellectual humility affect our ability to evaluate AI responses

Recognizing bias—both in AI training data and in our own prompts

Strategies to overcome confirmation bias when using ChatGPT

How to use AI to strengthen critical thinking through debate and challenge-based prompts

Mentioned Resources:

Stephanie’s blog post on AI & Critical Thinking

Her interview with an AI expert on bias in training data

Dr. Kiran Garimella’s article: Is AI Creating Incompetent Experts?

MagicSchool.AI – a tool for supervised AI learning environments

FundaFunda Academy’s AI and Critical Thinking courses

Self-paced AI Unit Study (Grades 6–12)

Semester-long AI Class for High School Credit

Critical Thinking in the Digital Age (self-paced, ½ credit)

Where to find Stephanie (@critikid)

* Instagram
* Facebook
* Youtube
* TikTok

Take a look at show sponsor, FundaFunda Academy to see what they offer for online classes and web-based unit studies.

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