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High school students and families interested in applying or seeking more information can visit the Lehigh Launch website The Fall 2024 cohort is still accepting applications on a space-available basis until May “It’s incredibly rewarding to start getting to know these students when they are seniors in high school and then to witness all the personal and academic growth they experience before they even arrive on the Lehigh campus for the spring semester,” said Katy Rene, assistant director of Study Abroad at Lehigh “I have also been so impressed by all the ways our program alumni are getting involved and pursuing additional international research and co-curricular activities offered by the university,” Rene said Ceron-Anaya has several trips and visits planned for Lehigh Launch Chile including one to the beautiful Chiloé Island which includes the Chiloé National Park and the Tantauco Park nature reserve Inhabited by indigenous communities for the last roughly 600 years the students will speak to local communities about how they reconcile tourism with nature the capital city of Chile’s Coquimbo Region which is particularly well known for its beaches It is also one of the sites where Charles Darwin stopped during his South American scientific expedition due to the wide variety of ecosystems found there Ceron-Anaya plans to teach one of his most popular Lehigh courses: “Race and Ethnicity in the Americas,” which takes a comparative approach to looking at Latin America and the U.S and how each side of the continent develops their racial and ethnic ideas Santiago has so much to offer the students There is so much to do for anyone interested in art He also plans to offer a new course called “Utopias in the Current World,” which will delve into contemporary efforts to create better and more harmonious societies by drawing on past attempts to create utopian societies “I decided to go against all the messages in popular culture about the dystopian futures you see on shows at places like Netflix and Prime,” Ceron-Anaya said “I want the students to think about a future that is not a misery for everybody a future that is very different from what popular culture feeds us these days.” the students will visit the Mamalluca Observatory a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments near La Serena The observatory fits into Ceron-Anaya’s class about utopias because it will help students think about the role science and technology plays in creating a positive future for everybody Lehigh Launch Chile participants will be staying in different locations across three adjacent neighborhoods in Santiago and a wide variety of cafes and small restaurants The city is also very walkable and bicycle-friendly “Santiago has so much to offer the students,” Ceron-Anaya said “There is so much to do for anyone interested in art Ceron-Anaya expects Lehigh Launch Chile participants to spend a lot of time visiting Santiago museums and he will be inviting artists and writers to speak to the students It’s also easy to visit other countries and places from Santiago It’s very affordable to travel to nearby Argentina and bus services are available to the Andes mountain range “Latin American studies will help our students develop a sophistication about the world in a different way than they will find in European countries,” he said with all the sort of problems that come with that Lehigh Launch Chile is the sister program to Lehigh Launch American West which began in 2020 and features programs in the Rocky Mountains and field-based learning in Wyoming and New Mexico Applications for Lehigh Launch American West is currently accepting applications for the Fall The Building Futures Workshop is first of its type held in India the experiential learning experience for first-year Lehigh students will be offered in Chile For inquiries, visit the media page or contact: Amy White(610) 758-6656abw210@lehigh.edu 301 Broadway, 4th Floor - Suite 400Bethlehem, PA 18015U.S.A.P: (610) 758-4487Fax: (610) 758-5566communications@lehigh.edu GO: The Campaign for Future MakersBe part of the most ambitious fundraising and engagement effort in Lehigh's history. 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Reber This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The winner of a Europa Nostra Award in 2022, PAX Patios de la Axerquía is a program initiated in 2018 by a group of people belonging to the fields of architecture and anthropology created with the mission of incentivizing urban refurbishments through social innovation and cooperative processes in areas of heritage value The collective begins the implementation of the program in the city of Córdoba This pilot project – after the formation of PAX Astronautas a cooperative composed of six families – involves revamping a tenement house at Calle Montero 12 in the Axerquía neighborhood In the past inhabited by eighteen families and awarded several times in the Courtyards Festival of Córdoba the intervention restores the building’s architectural value and also its ecological and anthropological component saving it from a tourist use that would compromise the collective worth of this piece of heritage as well as the livability of the old quarter Rediscovering the beauty of the inner landscape of this tenement house has unearthed the history of its plastered walls such as the well or parts of the hydraulic flooring but never in a way that undermines the desire to achieve a contemporary design The ecology of the courtyard has received special attention through active strategies All this contributes to updating a material piece of heritage The result is a contemporary exaltation of the eco-social importance of the courtyard in Cordóba and Mediterranean cities in general and an assertion of its resilience in the face of forces like touristification and climate change there arent any match using your search terms Listen every Friday to the official countdown of New Mexico Music's 15 most requested songs of the week Show Breaking News BarCloseLocal NewsZaria Oates Matthew Craig Texas Governor Greg Abbott has since directed the deployment of 135 Texas first responders to help fight the West Coast fires and respond to emergencies The crews of first responders from Texas are made up of the Texas Division of Emergency Management the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System and the Texas Emergency Medical Task Force led by New Braunfels firefighter Jeremy VanAusdall “We’re currently assigned to the Palisades fire in Malibu The Alamo Strike Team has first responders from Bexar-Bulverde “This is unprecedented weather for early January in California,” VanAusdall said to see this type of fire behavior this early in January This is devastation beyond anything that I’ve ever seen.” Three of the 22 members of the Alamo Strike Team are from New Braunfels “The pride for me is that our members aren’t just going to assist from an operations standpoint,” said the New Braunfels Fire Department Chief Ruy Lozano “Many of them are leaders in those endeavors.” he said nothing compares to what he is seeing in the Palisades right now “Humbled this morning to drive essentially from the West Side of the fire to the East Side of the fire all along the coastline and saw some pretty devastating sights,” VanAusdall said “That’s something that I’ve never seen in my life for sure.” the South Texas teams working on these fires are prepared we did send out two different deployments,” said Chris Shadrock which has one first responder fighting fires in California we sent firefighters out to the Abilene-West Texas area and then we also sent firefighters out to the Texas Panhandle Smokehouse Creek Fire which ended up being the largest one in the state,” Shadrock said VanAusdall said they’re committed to 14 days of 24-hour and 24-hour off shifts If South Texas services are needed beyond that timeframe additional first responders are ready to serve “There is an anticipated wind event in the next in the next 24 hours,” VanAusdall said “We’re essentially pre-positioning for initial attack on any fire that could happen whether it’s from this fire or another one.” He also said first responders are currently in the best possible scenario to attack these fires as wind speeds increase “There are over 5,000 firefighters assigned to this fire,” VanAusdall said “There are crews strategically positioned around the entire perimeter of this fire today.” Copyright 2025 by KSAT - 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In order to use all of the features on dykstrafuneralhome.com, enable JavaScript.Close a gift of gab is a key asset Raul Anaya gets to know some clients through fishing “You spend seven hours of quality time with the client You get to know them very well when it’s just you and the client on a boat Print The gig: Raul Anaya is Bank of America’s market president for Greater Los Angeles making him the bank’s top local executive and one of its most public faces in town He’s held that post since 2012 and this year added a new role: head of global commercial banking for the bank’s Pacific Southwest region never made it past elementary school and worked in an auto-body repair shop; his mother had a high school diploma and worked as an elementary school assistant teacher was the first in his family to go to college You really need to have a better type of position than what I’m doing.” the family moved to the south Texas border town of Brownsville — “You can’t get any closer to Mexico” — where his father started his own business mostly to persuade him to aspire to another line of work “He wanted me to watch what he was doing and how physical and difficult his work was.” K-Mart: Anaya married young and worked his way through the University of Texas at Brownsville while supporting a family he worked as a supervisor at Kmart and as a checker at grocery chain HEB But wanting to get into the world of business he found a job as a teller at Texas Commerce Bank “I didn’t want to be a store manager for Kmart and I felt I wasn’t getting any hands-on experience.” Anaya met commercial bankers — the ones who would meet with business owners and offer loans “Being a commercial banker in Brownsville was a big thing the business owners of that city and of the region.” putting Anaya in charge of the bank’s commercial lending group in San Antonio and south Texas “I think he saw in me somebody who worked hard that liked to connect with people and was always trying to build relationships.” something he knows has helped him along the way so I tend to ask a lot of questions.” He said that helps him understand what his clients need On the fly: Though golf is the standard sport of bankers He prefers fishing and takes some of his clients to Montana for a fishing trip Personal: Anaya lives in Pasadena with his wife Anaya also has three children from his first marriage: two grown daughters He roots for the Los Angeles Clippers — and advised Shelly Sterling on the $2-billion sale of the team last year james.koren@latimes.com Hollywood Inc. Business Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map NEW YORK PREMIERE Kemonito, a beloved mascot of the Mexico World Wrestling Council, has suffered many injuries, but he can’t retire and lose his only means to support his family. – DeWitt Davis The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests. All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices. Don't forget to add SUBMISSIONS to the email subject line! When presenting the campaign that will celebrate that birthday, the director of the cultural institution, Orlando Vergés, expressed the intention of opening a new stage, with dynamics and ways of doing that further favor the work of a unique group in the country and the world. He reaffirmed the uniqueness of the House, where specialists and other workers who unfold as promoters, managers and producers of the cultural event work, in proven synergy with the groups that carry demonstrations settled deep within the national and regional identity. He particularly highlighted the 40 editions of the Caribbean International Festival, a meeting of cultural resistance that has survived, almost uninterruptedly, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural phenomena, in addition to the coup in Honduras when it was dedicated to that country in 2009. For her part, Daniela Anaya, deputy director of the center, referred to the program in preparation, which includes a prolonged rumba, the colloquium dedicated to the 80 years of the founder, Joel James; visual arts exhibitions, competitions, tributes to personalities and artistic shows. She referred, in particular, to the allegorical poster and spot, already on display, together with the audiovisual capsules that will celebrate the event, thanks to the performance of Buena Luz Producciones, by the renowned photographer Rubén Aja and with the collaboration of other filmmakers . A sample of the painter Michel Mirabal, consecrated to the Virgin of Charity of Copper, will be one of the attractions of the meeting that next January will evoke the birth of James, historian, essayist and narrator who was, until his death in June 2006, the nurturing soul of the House. | Text SMS to 8100 with content PLReceive 4 mesages x 25 cup © 2016-2021 Prensa Latina Latin American News Agency Radio – Publications  – Videos – News by the minute.All Rigts Reserved. St. E No 454 , Vedado,  Habana, Cuba.Phones: (+53) 7 838 3496, (+53) 7 838 3497, (+53) 7 838 3498, (+53) 7 838 3499Prensa Latina © 2021 . Web Site developed by IT Division  Prensa Latina. Officers booked Santiago Rodriguez-Sosa on suspicion of burglary, cocaine possession, property damage, larceny and possession of stolen or lost credit cards. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Police said officers arrested a Santa Fe man after finding him at Anaya’s Towing with auto parts in his car that they said had been stolen from the west-side business and possibly an auto body shop. According to police reports, Officer Dale Meek was patrolling Clark Road just after midnight Sunday when he saw a Chevy Suburban parked at the intersection of Clark Road and Industrial Road, a short walk from Anaya’s Towing. The truck was filled with auto parts, and so the officer called for backup, reports state. Police saw Rodriguez-Sosa in front of a 2003 Ford Expedition that belonged to Anaya’s Towing, which police later accused Rodriguez-Sosa of breaking into the vehicle, the reports said. Officers also seized 1.1 grams of cocaine and four credit cards that each belonged to different individuals and businesses, documents said. Police records show Anaya’s Towing reported eight burglaries in a little over two months. Rodriguez-Sosa told officers in Spanish he was permitted to stay at Anaya’s Towing while he underwent a divorce and searched for housing. One of the owners told police this was not true. According to court records, Rodriguez-Sosa in the past six months was charged with possession of a controlled substance. In 2017, he was charged with aggravated assault and assault on a household member. He was being held Monday in the Santa Fe County jail in lieu of bond. Circulation Office Hours - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. 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Volume 6 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.646909 This article is part of the Research TopicScience Education for Citizenship through Socio-Scientific issuesView all 9 articles Few people question the important role of critical thinking in students becoming active citizens; however the way science is taught in schools continues to be more oriented toward “what to think” rather than “how to think.” Researchers understand critical thinking as a tool and a higher-order thinking skill necessary for being an active citizen when dealing with socio-scientific information and making decisions that affect human life which the pandemic of COVID-19 provides many opportunities for The outbreak of COVID-19 has been accompanied by what the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as a “massive infodemic.” Fake news covering all aspects of the pandemic spread rapidly through social media This paper reports on an empirical study carried out during the lockdown in Spain (March–May 2020) with a group of secondary students (N = 20) engaged in diverse online activities that required them to practice critical thinking and argumentation for dealing with coronavirus information and disinformation The main goal is to examine students’ competence at engaging in argumentation as critical assessment in this context Discourse analysis allows for the exploration of the arguments and criteria applied by students to assess COVID-19 news headlines The results show that participants were capable of identifying true and false headlines and assessing the credibility of headlines by appealing to different criteria although most arguments were coded as needing only a basic epistemic level of assessment and only a few appealed to the criterion of scientific procedure when assessing the headlines The case of the COVID-19 pandemic shows the crucial importance of socio-scientific instruction toward students’ development of critical thinking (CT) for citizenship we aim to explore students’ ability to critically engage in the assessment of the credibility of COVID-19 claims during a moment in which fake news disseminated by social media was shared by the general public and disinformation on the virus was easier to access than real news We will first discuss the crucial role of CT to address controversial issues and to fight against the rise of misinformation on COVID-19; and then turn attention to the role of argumentation in students’ development of CT in SSI instruction in epistemic education such as argumentation understood as the evaluation of claims based on evidence when they must assess the validity of information that affects not only them as individuals but also the whole society and environment CT may equip citizens to discard fake news and to use appropriate criteria to evaluate information This requires the design and implementation of specific CT tasks We see active learning methodologies and real-word problems such as SSIs as appropriate contexts for CT development engaging students in CT and epistemic performance If we want students to learn to think critically about the claims they will encounter on social media they need to practice argumentation as critical evaluation which is cognitive engagement in epistemic assessment Epistemic assessment encompasses in our study the evaluation of the content of claims disseminated by media Aligned with these authors we understand that this process requires cognitive and metacognitive competences epistemic assessment needs adequate disciplinary knowledge but also meta-cognitive competence for recognizing unsupported beliefs This paper examines students’ competence to engage in argumentation and CT in an online task that requires them to critically assess diverse information presented in media headlines on COVID-19. Competence in general can be defined as “a disposition to succeed with a certain aim” (Sosa, 2015 is at its core a dispositional ability to discern the true from the false in a certain domain being the research questions that drive the analysis of the following: What is the competence of students to assess the credibility of COVID-19 information appearing in news headlines What is the level of epistemic assessment showed in students’ arguments according to the criteria appealed while assessing COVID-19 news headlines A teaching sequence about COVID-19 was designed at the beginning of the lockdown in Spain (Mid-March 2020) in response to the rise of misinformation about coronavirus on the internet and social media The design process involved collaboration between the first and second author (researchers in science education) and the third author (a biology teacher in secondary education) The participants are a group of twenty secondary students (14–15 years old) from a state public school located in a well-known seaside village in Galicia (Spain) They were mostly from middle-class families and within an average range of ability and academic achievement Students were from the same classroom and participated in previous online activities as part of their biology classes who collaborated on previous studies on CT and learning science through epistemic practices on health controversies The activities were integrated in their biology curriculum and carried out when participants received instruction on the topics of health Google Forms was used for the design and implementation of all activities included in the sequence The reason to select Google Forms is that it is free and a well-known tool for online surveys all students were familiar with its use before the lockdown and the teacher valued its usefulness for engaging them in online debates and in their own evaluation processes This online resource provides anonymous results and statistics that the teacher could share with the students for debates It needs to be highlighted that during the lockdown students did not have the same work conditions; particularly quality and availability of access to the internet differed among them They had 1 week to complete each task and the teacher could be consulted anytime if they had difficulties or any question regarding the activities The design was inspired by a previous one carried out by the authors when the first case of Ebola disease was introduced in Spain (Puig et al., 2016) and follows a constructivist and scientific-based approach in which students were required to express their own views and knowledge on COVID-19 and health notions related with it before then being progressively involved in the application of knowledge through the practice of modeling and argumentation The third activity engaged them in critical evaluation of COVID-19 information A more detailed description of the activities carried out in the different steps of the sequence is provided below An individual Google Forms survey around some notions and health concepts that appear in social media during the lockdown The second part of this stage is the focus of our analysis COVID-19 News Headlines provided to students The sequence ended with the creation of a short video in which the students had to provide some tips to avoid the transmission of the virus The information provided in the video must be supported and based on established scientific knowledge Code scheme for research questions 1 and 2 we distributed the arguments in two main categories: (1) Arguments that question the credibility of the information; (2) Arguments that do not question the credibility of the information For Research Question 2, we classify arguments that question the credibility of the headline in accordance with the level of epistemic assessment into three levels (see Table 2) and high) was established by the authors based on the criteria that students applied and expressed explicitly or implicitly in their arguments thus the categories were not pre-established; they were coded by the authors as the following: content (using the knowledge that each student has about the topic) source (questioning the origin of the information) evidence (appealing to empirical evidence as real live situations that students experienced) authority (justifying according to who supports or is behind the claim) and scientific procedure (drawing on the evolution of scientific knowledge) most students were able to distinguish fallacious from true headlines which was an important step to assess their credibility students were able to question their credibility most participants developed arguments supporting them the arguments elaborated by students appealed to different criteria discussed in the next section of results 147 arguments were elaborated by students to question the false headlines; they created just 22 arguments to assess the true ones as arguments for questioning or criticality appear more frequently when the information presented differs from students’ opinions Number of students who questioned or not each news headline on COVID-19 Students showed a higher capacity for questioning those claims they considered false or fake news which can be related to the need to justify properly why they consider them false and/or what should be said to counter them The headlines that were most controversial meaning they created diverse positions among students were these three: “The COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in areas with hot and humid climates,” “Skin manifestations (urticaria rashes…) could be among the mild symptoms of coronavirus” and “Antibiotics are effective in preventing and treating coronavirus infection.” The first two were questioned by 11 students out of 28 they were not familiar with this information “I think the heat is not good for the virus.” On the contrary 17 students did not question these headlines arguing for instance as this student did: “because it was shown that both in hot climates and in cold climates it is contagious in the same way.” A similar situation happened with the third headline A proportion of students (9 out of 28) accepted that antibiotics could help to treat COVID-19 showing in their answers some misunderstanding regarding the use of antibiotics and the diseases they could treat The rest of the participants (19 out of 28) questioned this headline affirming that “because antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and coronavirus is a virus,” among other justifications for why it was false To analyze the level of epistemic assessment showed in students’ arguments when dealing with each headline, attention was focused on the criteria students applied (see Table 2). As Table 4 summarizes almost all arguments included only one criterion (139 out of 169) and 28 out of 169 did not incorporate any criterion These types of arguments can be interpreted as low epistemic assessment or even without epistemic assessment if no criterion is included Arguments used by students to assess the credibility of each COVID-19 headline In the category of Basic Epistemic Assessment we include all students’ arguments that included one criterion: Content or Empirical Evidence Students assessed the content of the claim appealing to their own knowledge about that piece of information or to empirical evidence without posing critical questions for assessing the credibility of the source of information were included in students’ arguments with a frequency of 86 and 23 with this category the most common (109 out of 169) when questioning false and true headlines arguments under this category were identified in relation to headlines 2 and 4 whose credibility were questioned by appealing to the content such as: “those are not the symptoms (skin manifestations)” Examples of arguments assessing the content of false headlines are provided below: “Because the virus is inside the body and even if you injected alcohol into the body it would only cause intoxication” appealing to the fact that alcohol causes intoxication rather than the elimination of coronavirus “I know a person who had coronavirus and they only gave him paracetamol” the student rejects headline 6 and appeals to his/her own experience during the pandemic particularly a close person who had coronavirus as evidence against the use of antibiotics for coronavirus disease treatment The category Medium Epistemic Assessment gathers arguments that make critical questions particularly those asking for information about the authority or the source of information these criteria reflect a higher level of epistemic performance since they imply questioning beyond the veracity of the headline itself to its sources and authorship There are 20 out of 169 arguments coded within this category The assessment of true headlines includes arguments that question the authority and source “because they said it on the news” (headline 2) “that news does not seem very reliable to me” (headline 4) It is also an ordinary category in questioning false headlines since students appealed to the source (16) “because in the news they clarified that it was a fake news and because it is not credible either” (headline 10) or the authority (4) “because the professionals said they were more vulnerable (people over 70 years old) but not that it only affected them” (headline 7) we consider those arguments (12 out of 169) in which students appealed to the scientific procedure (11) to justify why the headline is false which manifests students’ reliance on epistemic processes “because treatments that protect against coronavirus are still being investigated” (headline 9) under this category we include arguments that combined more than one criterion content and scientific procedure “Because antibiotics don’t treat those kinds of infections no medication has yet been discovered that can prevent the coronavirus” (headline 6) Students’ arguments included in this category were elaborated to assess false headlines a special mention is afforded to those arguments that did not include any criteria (28) which are contained in the category Non-Epistemic Assessment It appears more frequently in students’ answers to headlines 8 and 10 as these examples show: “I don’t think it’s true because it doesn’t make much sense to me” (headline 8) or “I never heard it and I doubt it’s true” (regarding drinking alcohol The findings of our study indicate that students were able to deal with fake news, identifying it as such. They showed capacity to critically assess the content of these news headlines, considering their inconsistencies in relation to their prior knowledge (Britt et al., 2019). As Evagorou (2020) pointed out SSIs are appropriate contexts for CT development and to value the relevance of science in our lives Students’ prior knowledge influenced the critical evaluation of some of the COVID-19 headlines provided in the activity. This is particularly relevant in responses to headline 6 (false) “Antibiotics are effective in preventing and treating coronavirus infection.” A previous study on the interactions between the CT and knowledge domain on vaccination (Ageitos and Puig, 2021) showed that there is a correspondence between them This points to the importance of health literacy for CT development although it would not be sufficient to provide students with adequate knowledge only in this case regarding the proper use of antibiotics We found that the level of epistemic assessment (RQ2) linked to students’ CT capacity is low. A big majority of arguments were situated in a basic epistemic assessment level, and just a few in a higher epistemic assessment. One reason that might explain these results could be related to the task design and format, in which students worked autonomously in a virtual environment. As CT studies in e-learning environments have reinforced (Niu et al., 2013) cooperative or collaborative learning favors CT skills particularly when students have to discuss and justify their arguments on real-life problems The circumstances in which students had to work during the outbreak did not allow them to work together since internet connections were not good for all of them so synchronous activities were not possible This aspect is a limitation for this research This means that students acknowledge that information should be gathered from reliable news media that themselves obtained information from reliable experts Only few students used the criterion of scientific procedure when assessing false headlines which shows a high level of epistemic assessment Promoting this type of assessment is important since online discourse in the post-truth era is affected by misinformation and by appeals to emotions and ideology but not from the perspective of exploring students’ ability to engage in the epistemic assessment of information and disinformation on COVID-19 under a situation of social isolation This is an unprecedented context in many aspects where online learning replaced in-person teaching and science uncertainties were more visible than ever thus activities oriented toward these goals are necessary Our study reinforces the need to design more CT activities that guide students in the critical assessment of diverse aspects behind controversial news as a way to fight against the rise of disinformation and develop good knowledge when dealing with SSIs Students’ epistemological views can influence their performance on argumentation thus if uncertainty of knowledge is explicitly address in SSI instruction and epistemic activities students’ epistemological views may be developed and such development may in turn influence their argumentation competence and consequently their performance on CT The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors Written informed consent was obtained from the participants’ legal guardian/next of kin to participate in this study in accordance with the National Legislation and the Institutional Requirements BP conducted the conceptual framework and designed the research study PB-A conducted the data analysis and collaborated in manuscript preparation JP-M implemented the didactical proposal and collected the data All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This work was supported by the project ESPIGA partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Grant code: PGC2018-096581-B-C22 The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest This study was carried out within the RODA research group during the lockdown in Spain due to COVID-19 pandemic We gratefully acknowledge all the participants for their implication Instructional interventions affecting critical thinking skills and dispositions: a stage 1 meta-analysis “Critical thinking to decide what to believe and what to do regarding vaccination in schools a case study with primary pre-service teachers,” in Critical Thinking in Biology and Environmental Education Jiménez-Aleixandre (Berlin: Springer) Collective decision making in the social context of science CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar “Critical thinking and/or argumentation in highr education,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education On the goals of epistemic education: promoting apt epistemic performance CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar A review of educational responses to the “post-truth” condition: four lenses on “post-truth” problems CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar “Critical and active public engagement in addressing socioscientific problems through science teacher education,” in Science Teacher Education for Responsible Citizenship Teaching sourcing in upper secondary school: a comprehensive sourcing intervention with follow-up data CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar A reasoned approach to dealing with fake news CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Cachón-Zagalaz Systematic review of the literature about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of school children “Epistemic cognition and philosophy: developing a new framework for epistemic cognition,” in Handbook of Epistemic Cognition Google Scholar the instructional value of explorations into knowing CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar “Epistemic design: design to promote transferable epistemic growth in the PRACCIS project,” in Promoting Spontaneous Use of Learning and Reasoning Strategies Research and Practice for Effective Transfer The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Towards a viable response to COVID-19 from the science education community CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Dominguez, C. 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