How do you think we could empower our Colombian students to critically spot fake news?

Colombian Student's

Nowadays, Colombian students are said to have a lack of critical thinking owing to the fact that when they start studying at the university they cannot improve that ability that actually, it has not been encouraged during the previous years. There are many people worried about that situation, especially teachers, owing to the fact that the future depends on this generation. However, no one has come up with an idea so as to empower our Colombian students the critical thinking. 

Firstly, if teachers are expecting to make students critical, there must be a wide change in the curriculum. According to McLaren, P. (p.74) " Curriculum... it represents the introduction to a particular form of life; it serves in part to prepare students for dominant or subordinate positions in the existing society." I agree with the fact that sometimes the different issues in the surroundings are not taken into account and it should not be on that way. Students should have the opportunity to analyze by themselves and to identify how reliable is the information provided about a situation studied. Sometimes they just believe what other people say or even what they see through social networks. Finally, the information is being manipulated as much as possible, and it is a big problem that some teachers have to deal with due to the fact that students tend to believe in the internet information.

As a conclusion, it is believed that the change in the Colombian education should start in the way that the different curriculums are being developed. It is important to involve the real context situations; additionally, students should develop their skill to identify fake news that they may confuse them so as to have a critical thinking and to get different standpoints about an issue. Actually, if the curriculum changes... it may not make a big change now, but later on it will.

HENRY GIROUX: Where is the OUTrage

Henry Giroux: Where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times

          The Educational System should be as it is expected. There is always some factors which do not allow to improve the way of teaching due to the fact that always Capitalism is going to be first. Taking into account some ideas that Mr. Henry shared in his lecture, there are some aspects that are totally interesting as well as truth. For instance, training students in the workforce, avoiding the pleasure of learning and making young generation guilty.

"Giving Youth a Chance to Build Capacity and Agency to Realize Their Own Potential"

          First, training students to workforce proves that the educational system is taking away some important element from each student. For instance, some abilities are not being taken into account such as the art sense, creativity. Then, avoiding the pleasure of learning provides a huge gap in students owing to the fact that there is not a way of not getting any pleasure through the process of learning. That is something that should change, because some students, especially in primary schools, do not understand the reason why they should go to school. Sometimes they feel obligated, and it is sad because with learning anyone could explore their identity and believe in a new generation. And last but not least, making the young generation guilty. It is really common to hear, as Mr. Henry Giroux said, that this young generation is the "zero generation, zero future, zero jobs", that it is not providing anything to the reality; however, who is the real guilty? No one thinks about what happened behind this 'lost generation'.

          To sum up, there are different issues related to the education that is pretty hard to discuss. Mr. Henry Giroux gives excellent standpoints that makes everyone to reflect; although, we are not used to /well, some people/ to talk about those aspects because they are considered only for critical people. Those people who found the way to analyze different aspect and not to worry about their ideas. In other words, we all should "imagine the unimaginable".

STEREOTYPES

Stereotypes 

Those some general ideas that anyone has about a certain group of people are stereotypes. sometimes, those stereotypes are positive or negative. As everyone knows, in the world there are many people and each one of them is different from one another. The fact is, that some of those 'stereotypes' might feel people uncomfortable. 

According to those videos about truth or myth from different parts of the world, it was pretty interesting those stereotypes which I thought they were a myth and some of them were admitted to be true. it was something that really surprised me, and also the fact that there were some stereotypes that are considered here in Colombia. To sum up, I want to consider the idea that there is not an only way to identify a group of people; everyone is different and if it unfair that people judge other people according to the general idea that runs in the context. 

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

If you want to save the world veganism isn't the answer by Isabella Tree

Veganism / Knepp

COMMENTS:


Disagreeing "What Isabella and her husband have done at Knepp is beautiful. But we simply cannot use it as a general justification for eating meat. The Knepp estate supplies 0.0075% of the beef the UK eats, and there is nowhere else like it. So what if everywhere was like Kneep, producing 54kg of meat/hectare? The Uk's 17.2m ha of farmland would produce slightly less beef than the UK eats. And nothing else. Knepp is wonderful. But as a general model, it's a formula for starvation. As you know, I strongly support rewilding - of infertile and unproductive land. I do not support rewilding as a substitute for productive crop-growing. The amazing thing about a plant-based diet is that it uses far less land, releasing more for rewilding. According to the estimates by Simon Fairlie (himself a small livestock keeper), a vegan diet could feed all the UK people on just 3m hectares of land. Alternatively, all the productive farmland in the UK could be used to support 200m people.
 By contrast, if Kneep-style production was applied across all the UK's farmland, it would supply the UK's population with around 75 kcal per person per day - roughly 1/30th of what we need to survive." By George Monbiot 

Disagreeing "A good article, but it left me wondering if the type of farming the author is arguing for, could possibly produce enough meat to meet demand even if people did reduce their consumption of meat." By Cochrane65