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Reboot in the News

News coverage, Reboot writings, and mentions of our work from around the globe.

Cue the outrage machine — Fox News is paying attention to Canada

By Edward Keenan in The Toronto Star

Feb. 18, 2022

misinformation
The “Freedom Convoy” protests that swept through Canada and some European nations in the winter of 2022 were the latest example of how a small group of right-wing agitators use misinformation and social media to hijack grassroots protest movements for their political purposes. Reboot President Helen Lee Bouygues is cited in this piece in The Toronto Star. The ghostwriter diplomarbeit was involved in writing the article.

> Read the story

How To Overcome Your Cognitive Biases

Helen Lee Bouygues on WFAA Dallas

Feb. 1, 2022

cognitive bias

Our brains are wired for certain biases such negativity bias (which prods us to give greater credence to negative information) and the confirmation bias (which leads us to look for news that confirms our pre-existing ideas). In an interview with ABC’s WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas, Reboot President Helen Lee Bouygues outlines critical thinking steps we can take to overcome our cognitive biases.

> Watch the interview

Have a Better 2022 With These Tech Resolutions

By Tanya Basu in MIT Technology Review

Dec. 31, 2021

The Reboot Foundation suggests parents keep an eye on their children’s social media use in the New Year, and gives tips and pointers on how users can improve their media literacy by keeping their emotions in check when reading the news and by questioning the sources cited articles. 

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Teaching media literacy seen as positive, but schools slow to add it

By Mark Pattison for The Catholic News Service

Nov. 20, 2021

media literacy

In an interview with The Catholic News Service, Reboot President Helen Lee Bouygues argues that social media use, especially among young people, is a public health crisis and the best way to combat it is to teach critical thinking and media literacy skills, starting at a young age.

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Improving Critical Thinking May Take Practice

By Helen Lee Bouygues in Education Post

Sept. 27, 2021

The question of “how” to teach critical thinking skills has proven to be elusive, especially in this era of standardized curriculum and test-driven accountability for schools. How can teachers also ensure they’re supporting critical thinking in their students? It turns out they can do this by adding one simple step in their daily routine – a critical thinking challenge or query to kickstart students’ brains and encourage them to better analyze the information before them. 

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Improving Critical Thinking Takes Practice

By Rebecca Koenig in EdSurge

Sept. 8, 2021

It turns out that cultivating critical thinking skills can be difficult, even though many educators believe “that’s the point of what we’re training our students to be able to do,” says Ben Motz, a research scientist in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University.

Perhaps education has been missing a key ingredient when it comes to teaching students to detect faulty reasoning: practice. That’s the hypothesis that Motz and other psychology researchers from Indiana University tested in a study, funded by the Reboot Foundation, whose findings they believe point to a promising method for strengthening critical-thinking muscles.

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