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.