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Advancing AI support: Critical inquiry

Advancing AI support: Critical inquiry

- [Instructor] Learning is not about following steps, it's about making meaning. A goal of following a path is limiting, a goal of understanding the environment around you and the numerous elements of the area between where you are and your destination is paramount. This approach known as critical inquiry illuminates the discipline of study well beyond the particulars of a fact-based question. Here, it's not about narrowing down to one right answer, but to explore more deeply and find greater understanding. Here's an example of critical inquiry in action, using the example of opportunity cost, it is one thing to know the definition and its relationship to weighing a decision against the next best option, but there are many factors beyond that definition a specific example would gain. Choosing to build a highway instead of a park is an example of opportunity cost, and going further into how this decision affects community health, environmental justice, and those constituents who…

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