SEVENTH TASK



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. 

The problem stated in paragraph one is the result of laziness and a lack of reading that people in Colombia have. These issues make people prefer read short news posted on social networks and take these as face value. Rather than look for sources that give reliability and credibility to the news. Here comes the advantage to teach students to read but teach them to read critically. Firstly, we have to empower our students with exercises of reading comprehension and encourage students go beyond of what is said in the reading and make up his own conclusion only in this way students will be able to spot fake news. As Henry Giroux points out in his conference about Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times "educational movement, guided by passion, effort and principles help students develop consciousness and connect knowledge to power and the ability to take constructive action."

Taking everything in to account, in Colombia due to lack of reading teenagers are using digital media as their main source of news. They take everything they read, hear or see at face value. In order to put an end to this issue and prevent it in future, we have to equip students with the skills to tell fact from fiction. This is a challenging task for teachers in the classroom. But I think that is not impossible. We can start giving to our students a list of reliable sources in which they can find news. But also, we have to encourage students to read objectively and critically and empower them to feel able to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations.

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