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Dave Ferguson pulls out big ideas from Stephen Downes' "OS for the mind" essay. Essentially, the argument is that we need to teach more than just facts: we need to teach people what to do with facts.
<li><strong>You can learn to tell fact from non-fact. </strong>Detecting deception (or, I think, error, or misrepresentation) is a skill, Downes says, “and you need just as much as your computer needs to be able to detect malware.”</li>
<li><strong>You’ve gotta decide.</strong> This point is key: decision-making isn’t rote performance, which means it’s not based solely on facts.</li>