The Sydney Morning Herald – Jordan Baker
“An over-emphasis on STEM is robbing students of the humanities-based skills they need to navigate the ‘dark arts’ of fake news, social media and online distortion, a world-leading expert in classroom technology has warned. Subjects such as history and art taught students how to question the status quo and see different perspectives, Professor Punya Mishra from Arizona State University, told a conference in Sydney. “We like to say we suspend disbelief,” he told the Herald after the conference. “[But] as humans, we are predisposed to belief. So we need to educate ourselves and our children to learn to disbelieve, to question.” (more)