CRITICAL THINKING

How do you think we could empower our Colombian students to critically spot fake news? As we know students are exposed to all the information that they can get from internet, tv news, newspapers. It is part of the work for a teacher to motivate students to think, understand, discuss about social issues, but it is important that they don’t belief all the information from this tools; they have to think about it and avoid false news. For this process is crucial to engage students to think, analyze and present their own arguments about news. A good strategy is to implement the reading material and make groups in order to order to get different point of views about the news that we are talking about or the    Implemention of criticial writing for example "where teachers invite students to move into deepening interrogations of knowledge in a globla context" Students should have the opportunity to think in a different way, and look for information from others source...

I think that as a new generation of teacher students it was crucial that we take into account some key points from the video.  For example as Giroux mentioned it's time to reclaim the role that education has had along the years. Maybe people in charge of education in our country forget what is the real purpose of education, they are focus on carry out lesson only for give to students only one perception about it, and theachers are with all the autority in classrooms. Giroux give us and idea of what kind of students we need inside the classroom he said that teacher need to educate students capable to think, to question, doubt and defend education. This mean the implementation of critical thinking in class. On the other hand I think that Giroux had a really good idea about how education must be, but If we contextualize this concept of education in Colombia, I can say that we are so far of thosea ideas, because he was talking from his experience or maybe the reality in North Americ...

Stereotypes are beliefs that people build about the peoples' behaviour, in other words is like a characterization of a specific group.  in the video I could see how people answered about the stereotypes that people have about them. But It wasn't a critical way to give an opinion about it, because they were speaking about personal opinions  or personal experiences, so they should think about their culture in general, maybe they don't like to say things like they are so lazy or that they only think about parties, but sometimes we can see that all of those stereotypes are true in the majority of people although I don't agree to give a generalization because as we know people have different behaviours, different beliefs and different lifes' styles. As we  know when colombian people decide to live abroad at the beggining is too difficult to normalize their life's styles because of all the stereotypes that people abroad have about us, the majority are relat...

Mark Zuckerberg Can Still Fix This Mess. The news about Facebook is not getting better. The company  has sharply increased  the number of users whose data was improperly shared with an outside company connected to President Trump’s campaign, to possibly 87 million. Amid an outcry, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, is expected to testify before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday.    EXPLANATION n 2014, 270,000 people were paid by an outside developer to install a Facebook app and answer questions like “Do you panic easily?” and “Do you often feel blue?” They weren’t told that their answers would become part of a psychological profile used by a voter profiling company, Cambridge Analytica — first to assess how they might vote and second to design personalized advertising for the purpose of changing their political views or their likelihood of voting, all to favor the agenda of Cambridge Analytica’s funders and clients . The app also scooped up inf...