Connecting Skills
📋 What it is
Critical-thinking skills link up: source-checking, fallacy-spotting, and evidence-weighing all judge one thing — should I believe this?
🗣️ Coach says
Your tools work together. Checking a source, naming a fallacy, weighing evidence — they all answer ONE question: “should I believe or share this?” A skilled thinker reaches for whichever tool the claim in front of them needs.
🧠 Memory hook
Every tool answers one question: should I believe this?
😂 Giggle
Why don't logical fallacies ever win debates fairly?
Because they always cheat the system of logic!
😲 Whoa!
The people hardest to fool aren’t the ones who know the most facts — they’re the ones who habitually PAUSE and ask “wait, is this actually true?” before reacting.
⚖️ The claim on trial:
“This shocking headline is safe to share right now, no checks needed.”
You're the judge. Deliver a verdict, pick the evidence that really matters, then reveal.
✗ Weak / flawed — Weak / flawed — before sharing you should use several tools together (check the source, spot fallacies/missing facts, weigh evidence). Excitement and share-count aren’t checks.
Real claims need several tools together — source-check, fallacy-spot, and evidence-weigh — before you believe or share.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Take one claim and use TWO tools on it (check the source AND look for a fallacy). Compare what each finds.