![]() This program uses flexible scripts and flexible roles to accommodate varying group sizes. Participants take on one or more roles while bringing one producer’s “great idea” to do something “funny to the news” to fruition. ![]() There are also a bunch of videos from our trial run of April Fool’s News that you can watch and analyze critically. Here’s the elevator pitch: April Fool’s News is humorous adventure in critical viewing that incorporates filming, scripted acting, improv, and both constructing and deconstructing a news piece slotted to “air” on the first of April. ![]() This post is a summary of their TOP TEN FALLACIES in a way that should make it be easy to explain to your kids. By giving a name to the arguments that DO NOT actually back up a claim as a TRUE claim, we gain power… we know what to look out for… we focus on the claim (without getting sidetracked) and only the arguments that count. Parker & Moore have written extensively about pseudo-reasoning and fallacies. The argument is then the reasons provided so that our claim will be accepted as true. The claim is the statement of belief or an opinion. If people left garbage in a park, that doesn’t mean that their cause is ridiculous and we should support the causes of the tidy.Įven if we only teach the concept of Red Herrings (#7 Below) then that may be enough right here, right now.īut let’s have a go at teaching our kids about claims and arguments. If someone bought her protest tent in China, that doesn’t mean she’s wrong. If someone is loud, that doesn’t mean he’s right. The phrase was later borrowed to give a formal name for the logical fallacy and literary device.In seeing what is coming through in the social arena (Editor’s Note: this article was posted during the #OWS movement), I thought it would be great to be able to teach our kids to think critically in regard to what is happening with OWS, and in general. He may have have been talking about a time which he had used a kipper to distract dogs from chasing a hare, and that hunters never actually used kippers to train dogs. However, most researchers today believe that the term was probably invented in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett. It has long been thought that the phrase came from kippers (a strong-smelling smoked fish) to train dogs to follow a scent, or to distract them from the correct route when hunting. For example, a character may own or hold a weapon similar to the weapon used to kill a character, but then it turns out that character was not the killer. It is common in stories like detective mystery books. Two, it can be used as a literary device that tricks readers or audiences into thinking that something is true when it really is not. For example, if a journalist asks a politician if the politician used any taxpayer money for his or her personal use, the politician may instead talk about the importance of increasing the pay of government officials without ever answering the question. One, it may be used as logical fallacy during an argument so that someone arguing does not have to answer a difficult question. In 1807, William Cobbett wrote how he used red herrings to lay a false trail, while training hunting dogs - a story that was probably the origin of the idiom.Ī red herring is something that misleads or distracts from an issue. Prior to refrigeration kipper was known for its strong smell. ![]() Herrings kippered by smoking and salting until they turn reddish-brown, i.e.
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