When I was presenting at the International Conference on Thinking in Wellington, New Zealand, in January 2013, I was asked to speak on critical thinking for a short video. In this video I talk about the central importance of creativity to critical thinking. It can be found on the website www.edtalks.org. You can find it by looking in the list of speakers, under ‘R’ (for Roy van den Brink-Budgen).
In the age of AI, critical thinking is needed more than ever.
In a recent article in Forbes, Ron Carucci makes a well-developed case for why critical thinking is very much needed (‘In the age of AI,