S8E2 - When AI does the thinking, how do young people learn to be critical thinkers? The urgent warning for those under 25.

About this episode

The episode explores the impact of AI on critical thinking skills among young people, featuring insights from educator Tim Cook.

What happens to a generation growing up with AI always on hand to do the thinking for them? That question sits at the heart of this episode, and few people are better placed to answer it than Tim Cook, an elementary school teacher in Amman, Jordan, who has spent over a decade in international classrooms across five countries. Tim writes the Algorithmic Mind column for Psychology Today, and his research on cognitive offloading and child development has been making waves well beyond the ed...

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Grill

Guest: Tim Cook

Topics covered

• AI
• critical thinking
• education
• cognitive offloading
• child development

Keywords

• AI
• critical thinking
• education
• cognitive offloading
• child development
• young people
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Psychology Today

Places: Amman, Jordan

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