Critical and Creative Thinking

Teaching Colombian students to read critically will help them to spot fake news easily                     Currently, in Colombia more young people than ever are using digital media as their main source of entertainment but also, they are using it as their main source of news. This is something that is really worrying for parents and teachers. We are not worried about the amount of time teenagers spend using the electronic devices the main concern is about the contents that they access to. In social networks for example we can find an innumerable kinds of contents among these contents we can find “information” but do they assure that the information is reliable or is a fake? This is a terrible mistake that teenagers and people are making because if they see news posted on the social media they tent to take it as granted. Sadly, few people look for other sources to corroborate if the news that they read is true. ...

    Henry Giroux, where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times Critical pedagogy is described by Henry Giroux as an "educational movement, guided by passion and principle, to help students develop consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, and connect knowledge to power and the ability to take constructive action." Education is so fundamental for society, that even the market forces, corporates, and private industries want to get their hands on it. Nowadays, schools are working as industries where children and teenagers are filled for the purpose of mere work. This issue is happening because this modern world needs workers and middle social class people to keep developing the same work in the same industries. Thus, the view of school is being reducing and shaping into the interests of the higher and powerful classes. Moreover, all this new shaping issue is misleading the real function of education in schools. Schools were born to provide sp...

    Task fifth To, start with this I’m going to say that stereotypes are something that exist in our society with the purpose of labelling or oversimplified in an image a particular type of person. Sometimes, stereotypes are seen as myths. According what I saw in the videos stereotypes are used worldwide. People from a country use it to characterize people that are not from the country. But also, stereotypes are used for portray a kind of image of people even from the same country. The fanny thing here is that in some cases, the stereotypes are true and in some cases they are a wrong perspective created by someone.  The characterizations that people do from others can be dangerous or annoying because we as human beings like be treated well. So, when we hear a person talking about a stereotype that oversimplify the image of people of my hometown I always try to have a conversation with this person. In the conversation I try to show fact and examples that helps me to re...

    Ø   Position or pint of view An awful lot of the program focuses on what President Trump means for world politics. Increasingly, however, I am wondering how the 45th president affects teaching political science in the classroom. Ø   An argument Teaching this class during the age of Trump has been a fascinating experience. There are many instances in which this administration’s behavior has been different from prior administrations in degree rather than in kind. People left prior administrations because of petty scandals or substantive policy disputes. People leave this one for similar reasons, with the added frisson of disagreeing with the president about, say, white nationalists. Ø   An explanation For example, it’s not that shocking that a president marginalizes policy principals who publicly air disagreements. On that dimension, Trump is different primarily in the source of the public disputes. An agreement ...