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tanjarechnitzer.bsky.social
Looking for #ArgumentMapping tools or software for #TeachingPhilosophy. Is there an overview somewhere? Or do you have specific recommendations? #Philsky
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
isanet.bsky.social
Watch the latest virtual event from ISA's #Teaching Difficult or Controversial Topics in the #InternationalAffairs #Classroom Series. Learn how to utilize #ArgumentMapping to improve #CriticalThinking & foster civil #Discussions with #Students:
Charting the Thicket: Using Argument Mapping to Explore Controversial Topics
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of argument mapping & demonstrates how instructors can integrate this powerful tool to help students disagree better.
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
stevebolton.bsky.social
Arguline now with many new features: stevebolton.id/arguline #argumentmapping #outlining #pdt #ielts
January 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
prompt.streetwi.se.ap.brid.gy
#promptengineering #businessanalysis #ailiteracy #strategicplanning #criticalthinking #swotanalysis #disruptiveinnovation #riskmanagement #consultingframeworks #argumentmapping (3/3)
June 25, 2026 at 6:24 AM
byrdnick.com
#ArgumentMapping is supposed to improve #argumentation, but argument map classes are often flipped (vs. lecture).

So is it #logic explanation or Socratic discussion that helps?

One experiment found that it's probably the latter.

doi.org/10.30191/ETS...

#edu #CriticalThinking
Defining 'rhetorical' and 'dialectical' (Socratic) approaches to argumentation. Methods The 'rhetorical' and 'dialectical' prompts used in the two key treatments. Results
April 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
byrdnick.com
Can #AI improve team-based #argumentation beyond the benefits of group work and #argumentMapping?

In a 6-week quasi-experiment with 67 Indonesian students, the AI-assisted group developed more well-rounded arguments and showed more "group efficacy".

doi.org/10.6706/TIES... #edu
The Collaborative Argument Map-Based ChatGPT Learning phases (Pages 104 and 105). The methods, including a chatGPT group, the Kialo collaborative argument mapping system (pages 107 and 108). The better results in the AI-assisted group (pages 112 and 113)
March 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
byrdnick.com
Years after testing my own positive expectations about argument mapping, I sometimes forget just how strong the allure of argument mapping can be.

Should I find a way to work these forecasts into the paper?

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#logic #argumentMapping #edu #criticalThinking #tech
Twitter poll: "Which logic module do you think will *better* improve people's critical thinking and argumentation?" Truth tables 15.9% Argument maps 51.2% The won't be different 11.6% I wouldn't know 21.3% 164 votes LinkedIn poll: "Which logic module do you think will *better* improve people's critical thinking and argumentation?" Truth tables 22% Argument maps 48% The won't be different 7% I wouldn't know 22% 27 votes Mastodon poll: "Which logic module do you think will *better* improve people's critical thinking and argumentation?" Truth tables 22% Argument maps 31% The won't be different 0% I wouldn't know 47% 32 votes
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
byrdnick.com
Today I present fresh results from two semesters of waitlist control trials at our 2nd annual #Teaching and #Learning Symposium.

Did #argumentMapping improve individual students' criticalThinking and persuasive #writing (on average)?

The results surprise me!

#higherEd #Edu #Science #Logic #Ethics
May 16, 2024 at 12:59 PM
claritrie.bsky.social
Claritrie just launched 🌍✨

Come check it out and be part of something game-changing: claritrie.com

Join the conversation, share your thoughts, and help shape the future's solutions!

#AIStartup #Innovation #BlueskyStartup #TechInnovation #Entrepreneurship #AIStartup #FutureOfTech #ArgumentMapping
Claritrie - Maps for Human Reasoning
Claritrie helps you navigate complex arguments and decisions with structured thinking. Explore tools for reasoning, argument mapping, and decision support.
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June 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
byrdnick.com
Looks like I’m not the only one to find that between-person differences in #criticalThinking didn’t replicate in within-person changes over time:



Testing #argumentMapping effects: www.researchgate.net...

Assessing #higherEd over time: doi.org/10.1007/s102...

#edu #stats
"Rational thinking skills were assessed using a German test battery consisting of four subtests of heuristics and biases tasks." "Cognitive Reflection was assessed using three items of the original CRT..." "Resistance to Belief Bias was assessed using five items created by Markovits and Nantel (1989) and one new item." "Resistance to Ratio Bias was assessed using four items by Toplak et al. (2014). In each item, the subjects’ task is to choose between a small and a large tray of white and black marbles...." "Disjunctive Reasoning was assessed using the knights and knaves problem (Toplak & Stanovich, 2002; adapted from Shafir, 1994) and five new items. In all items, the participants’ task was to decide whether the question can be answered with yes, no, or not at all based on the given information." "Prior to analyses, data were cleaned and checked for outliers. Responses to items of rational thinking skills that were unusually fast (3 SD or more below the item-specific log mean; following recommendations of Ratcliff, 1993) were considered unreliable and were deleted. This applied to 0.27% of all trials at t1 and 0.19% of all trials at t2. For continuous variables (fluid intelligence, rational thinking dispositions, rational thinking skills, student satisfaction), scores deviating more than 3 SD from the sample mean were excluded from path and regression analyses." "our sample size" was "101, excluding missing values and outliers)" "Regarding rational thinking skills, there were no significant differences between t1 and t2 in the means of cognitive reflection (t(119) = 1.73, p =.086, d = 0.16; all means are depicted in Table 1), resistance to belief bias (t(123) = 0.53, p =.598, d = 0.05), resistance to ratio bias (t(123) = −0.64, p =.521, d = −0.06), and disjunctive reasoning (t(119) = −0.31, p =.756, d = −0.03). Regarding rational thinking dispositions, there was no significant difference in consideration of future consequences between t1 and t2 (t(123) = 0.85, p =.395, d = 0.08). Interestingly, the mean scores of students’ need for cognition slightly, but significantly, declined from t1 to t2 (t(123) = −2.07, p =.040, d = −0.19). Overall, these results suggest that the students’ rational thinking skills and dispositions remained very stable over the course of two semesters in terms of both their absolute level and their relative ranking."
January 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM
iphilluh.bsky.social
Any recommendations for #ArgumentMapping tools, #philsky ?
tanjarechnitzer.bsky.social Tanja Rechnitzer @tanjarechnitzer.bsky.social · Oct 25
Looking for #ArgumentMapping tools or software for #TeachingPhilosophy. Is there an overview somewhere? Or do you have specific recommendations? #Philsky
October 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
tanjarechnitzer.bsky.social
I am looking particularly for #ArgumentMapping tools that have a graphic interface, and are intuitive to use in the classroom, ideally so that students can easily join and collaborate on developping the argument map.
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
byrdnick.com
Today I #livestream new #education research about the alleged benefits of #teaching students #argumentMapping.

10:40 EST / 15:40 CET

People I know can message me for the #Zoom URL.

Credit to the London #Reasoning Workshop for accessible conferencing!

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The 15th London Reasoning Workshop: July 15-16, 2025
July 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
byrdnick.com
Another paper fails to report that #argumentMapping improves #criticalThinking.

The paper reports pre- vs. post improvement only within the treatment group (without comparing to the control group). So we can't (logically) infer argument mapping caused that improvement. :/

doi.org/10.1109/ISET...
September 30, 2024 at 5:25 PM