By critical thinking, I suppose I mean more along the lines of evaluate this text or claim or media
Yes, it is called any decent critically acclaimed video game.
Don’t listen to non-sense about games designed by “experts” to be tuned to make you smarter… it is a bunch of variously smarmy or disengenous people who really do a massive intellectual injustice to the actual experts at interactive media design… video game designers… ALSO modern board game designers.
Modern society is so sick that we would rather listen to tech bro scammers apply pseudo science over artists who don’t bullshit about knowing precisely why something stimulates your mind scientifically and get to the actual hard work of making virtual experiences challenging and meaningful.
Seriously, I find this cottage industry of “brain games” VERY insulting to the decades long movement of video game design.
I’m not so much looking for “brain games” as something that facillitates learning crit thinking in terms of recognizing and evaluating claims and detecting biases and rhetoric etc. Maybe media crit a bit also, like “what are the claims being made and argue against them or what is a counterargument” etc
I wonder if that law school entrance exam prep thingy would be helpful…
This sounds more like a fact checker than brain gsmes.
Gotta keep my Duolingo streak going.
I hear you bro. Now on the much buggier Babbel.
I wish babble had chinese, but it’s only duo :/
Minute Cryptic has a daily cryptic crossword clue which is pretty fun. And they post video explanations for each solution, which is helpful for learning how cryptic crosswords work
My sudoko app has a daily challenge.
Memento Mori focuses on daily stoicism practises. I’m very interested in other suggestions though. I’d love to practise critical thinking exercises more.
NYT has a great puzzle app.
Or the user-driven, 100% free, and open-source alternative lichess.org
Why play chess when you can play more fun modern strategy board games (especially to lose) Concordia, Dominion, Agricola, Wingspan, Keyflower, Yellow & Yangtze etc…?
Chess is fine, but there are far more stimulating experiences in modern board gaming that are just as deep and a hell of a lot more fun.
