Ivar Braten

@ivabra.bsky.social

Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Oslo Norway

Critical thinking is a slippery concept. Seemingly easy to define until you actually try. This article traces the history of attempts to define critical thinking, and how they span individual and sociocultural perspectives. Important questions about how to teach it, also. doi.org/10.3102/0034...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Review of Educational Research" titled "The concept of critical thinking in teacher education: A systematic review."

Our new study indicates that with sound skepticism, ChatGPT might be used in the service of comprehension. The question is how many and who will just take the easiest route? Mind Over Model? Students' Evaluation and Use of ChatGPT-Generated Versus Human-Generated Texts doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

Our new study indicates that with sound skepticism, ChatGPT might be used in the service of comprehension. The question is how many and who will just take the easiest route? Mind Over Model? Students' Evaluation and Use of ChatGPT-Generated Versus Human-Generated Texts doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Such a wonderful keynote at #EARLI2025 by Ivar Bråten. Clear, compelling, integrated, and well-justified - just like his research! Truly inspiring to hear how he built so much knowledge about how people understand and integrate multiple documents.

Picture of Ivar Bråten before his keynote, in front of a large projection of his first slide that says “Multiple Document Literacy: Past, Present, and Promise.”