By critical thinking, I suppose I mean more along the lines of evaluate this text or claim or media
This thread is really making me realize how many people just don’t know what critical thinking is… :\
Problem solving is not the same as critical thinking. No puzzle or strategy game, that I can think of, has any significant critical thinking component to it.
Wait, just thought of one exception. Social deduction games, like Among Us, when played with live chat, will train critical thinking. Critical thinking is about figuring out if this information is lying to you (edit: or otherwise flawed in some way) or not, and if so, how.
But most people who play Among Us are dinguses!
Yes, it is called any decent critically acclaimed video game.
Don’t listen to non-sense about games designed by “experts” to be tuned to make you smarter… it is a bunch of variously smarmy or disengenous people who really do a massive intellectual injustice to the actual experts at interactive media design… video game designers… ALSO modern board game designers.
Modern society is so sick that we would rather listen to tech bro scammers apply pseudo science over artists who don’t bullshit about knowing precisely why something stimulates your mind scientifically and get to the actual hard work of making virtual experiences challenging and meaningful.
Seriously, I find this cottage industry of “brain games” VERY insulting to the decades long movement of video game design.
I’m not so much looking for “brain games” as something that facillitates practicing crit thinking in terms of recognizing and evaluating claims and detecting biases and rhetoric etc. Maybe media crit a bit also, like “what are the claims being made and argue against them or what is a counterargument” etc
I wonder if that law school entrance exam prep thingy would be helpful…
Gotta keep my Duolingo streak going.
Or the user-driven, 100% free, and open-source alternative lichess.org
Why play chess when you can play more fun modern strategy board games (especially to lose) Concordia, Dominion, Agricola, Wingspan, Keyflower, Yellow & Yangtze etc…?
Chess is fine, but there are far more stimulating experiences in modern board gaming that are just as deep and a hell of a lot more fun.
I’ve literally never heard of any of them. I knew the rules of chess since I was 5 or 6.
Check out modern board gaming, chess is a mediocre abstract game with no theme that is very unsatisfying to play unless you are evenly matched with someone.
I will choose neither as I don’t have any time for games
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