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The Critical Thinking Initiative

Steve Pearlman, Ph.D.

The Critical Thinking Initiative podcast is a response to the low critical thinking outcomes among U.S. students across all levels of education. Episodes focus on all areas related to meanin...

Episodes

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ChatGPT "Improves" Critical Thinking in Kids...But Not Really

📍 📍 📍 think. This study found some evidence for enhancing critical thinking through the use of ChatGBT. The researchers followed 25 stude...

1:42Dec 9, 2025

Free Your Brain from ChatGPT "Thinking"

If you you’re someone who values being able think independently, then you should be troubled by the fact that your brain’s operates all too...

10:25Oct 27, 2025

Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?

Steve Pearlman: Today on actual intelligence, we have a very important and timely discussion with Dr. Robert Neber of a SU, whose recent opi...

43:44Sep 9, 2025

Get Recognized for Thinking Outside the Box

How does your brain tackle a new problem? Believe it or not, it tackles new problems by using old frameworks it created for similar problems...

6:07Sep 4, 2025

Did the APA just end critical thinking in colleges?

Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! Subscribe FREE to receive new posts and support my work. APA to Students: Do...

8:19Sep 2, 2025

Kids Want Off Their Phones. Here's How!

Thanks for reading Actual Intelligence with Dr. Steve Pearlman! This post is public so feel free to share it. Thanks for reading Actual Inte...

4:46Aug 25, 2025

Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Is ChatGPT dumbing down your kid? It is and here’s what you can do. A new MIT study reveals the powerful consequences of artificial intellig...

10:57Aug 21, 2025

Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence . If you're an educator or par...

11:13Aug 21, 2025

QUICK TIP: Unlocking Divergent Thinking--The Physical Connection

Stuck in a mental rut? Need a way to break out of your current thought patterns? Want to unlock and unleash your creative, divergent, disrup...

9:51Aug 13, 2025

Headagogy Update!

More Headagogy coming soon! Also, check out The Critical Thinking Institute pdocast, with me!!! This is a public episode. If you would like...

1:28Feb 9, 2024

Thinking Critically in College with Louis Newman

Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success . What's the rel...

33:34Nov 28, 2023

ChatGPT - A Loaded Blessing In Disguise?

Is ChatGPT friend or foe? Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms? Is "the academic essay...

39:01Mar 21, 2023

Rubric Nation: Are We Rubricizing Our Humanity (Part 2)

Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing , Joe, Michelle, and Ste...

36:13Dec 14, 2022

Rubric Nation: Are we Rubricizing our Humanity?

Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubrici...

44:51Dec 7, 2022

Frances Valintine: Progressive Teaching; Institutional Shifting

Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard...

53:43Nov 29, 2022

Academic Rigor-mortis: A possible cure?

Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless per...

47:44Nov 15, 2022

NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 2)

Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the...

27:19Nov 1, 2022

NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 1)

Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after r...

24:07Oct 25, 2022

Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 2)

Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the...

30:04Jun 7, 2022

Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 1)

Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the...

28:52May 31, 2022