How to Empower Colombian Students to Critically Spot Fake News

Throughout the last years, there has been an exponential progress regarding communication, the way it is being portrayed and how it gets to be done. Furtheremore, communication has empowered people to become aware of the different assusmptions, events and occurences that happen world-wide. However, one has got to emphasy on the misinformation that fake news convey on people that are not used to reading or going beyond the message. Besides, this is not something that only happens on adults. It has become a trendy on teenagers and children as the social networks allow them to read and encounter many fake news. Regarding that problematic situation, the educational system has got to provide schools and teachers with the necessary tools for endorsing critical thinking towards any issue.
Although, it is not an easy task to carry out as there has been a big gap on teaching critically even to teachers. In that sense, education  cannot be aimed to teach only children or teenagers, it has got to be taught to teachers, principals and staff of schools and institutions. That is to be critical, and doding that is that people will overcome the misinformation that fake news convey. To spot critical thinking towards that issue, the current system needs an improvement regarding the way reading is being taught. Reading is not only to get a brief insight of the what the message is about, it is to convey a whole understanding of whatever is being discussed. Thus, students need to know and face the fake news to avoid the misunderstandigs they evoke.
On the other hand, to think critically encourages people to look up and verify whether the information is fake or not. In that regard, what shouldn't be encouraged is to share fake news but help people distinguish when the information comes from fake news and when it is reliable.




































https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/business/media/medias-next-challenge-overcoming-the-threat-of-fake-news.html
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/oct/17/fake-news-improved-critical-literacy-skills-teaching-young-people
https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-combat-fake-news-and-disinformation/

Sixth Task: Commentary about "What is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times"

To begin with, it is important to make reference on the  meaning that the author provides upon Crticial Pedagogy. He first pointed out that it is a political and moral-thing that affects the way teachers see the world and the teaching-learning process they carry out. Thus, what is intended with Critical Pedagogy is not to rely on the conservative notion that has been taking place in education throughout time, but to shape the world where we live. Besides, he emphises the way that education is understood within the political and pedagogical process of learning. Why political? Henry states that this process is political because fo the way its project endorses the relationship among knowledge, authority and power.
On the other hand, there is something paramount to discuss. The way edutacion is being shaped by the globalized and capitalized world where everything goes around generating money and employees. Hence, the consevartive notion given to education just focuses on producing and passing on information to create bare knowledge that does not allow people to think differently and critically. Regarding this fact, Critical Pedagogy stand for the purpose of creating and re-shaping the ways the teaching process takes place. CP allows not only teachers but also students to think, create and shape the processes that do not rely under the bbeliefs from conservative assumptions or notions. Furtheremore, CP encourages the different activities that teachers develop to create the notion of thinking critically about the things that are within such structural and pedagogical world.
Breaking the chains is to look at different horizons from different perspectives. CP allows that.   

Third Task: Summary of Stepehn Brookfield's Lecture

This video started with the autobiography of the lecturer. Later on, he said that giving that background was necessary for supporting what he stated about critical and creative thinking regarding education. The professor Stephen Brookfield started by pointing out that leaving students to choose their topics and ways to do their academic things is better than telling them to do so in a unique way. Besides, it is something he said based on his own experience when he was rejected to gento into college because of an exam he (to what I recall) failed. Thus, he asked to been given another opportuinity for getting into college and consequently, he understood the importance of giving opportunities to students so that they could take actions on different fields or problems.

The lecturer also expressed how he teaight assumptions and gave some exmaple regarding the different types of assumptions to get to informed actions.  From that explanation, he said that thinking critically is to focus on understanding and checking assumptions; and that thinking creatively is to look at things from multiple points of view. These, I think, are important definitions to understand what the slightly difference between these two pivotal issues for education and pedogogy.

In a general point of view and being critical, the lecture could have been a little bit more interesting if the people who attended had felt encouraged to participate. 

Fifth Task: Sterotype.

Stereotyping has got to be one of the most common ways to describe something or someone just by knowing where they or those come from. Even though, they are not true. Or well, not every time. For example, in the videos watched, most of the assumptions or stereotypes given, were said to be true. However, some of these sterotypes remain as myths. In spite of the fact that stereotyping seems to be true, it is smoething that cannot be allowed to express notions or insgiths one may have about a speciffic group of people. It is way to better to ask instead of wondering and not giving the right judgment.

In a particular case, there are some stereotypes that people have around the world about Colombian people. There is the belief that Colombian people do drugs, dance really good or they are all "narcos". These assumptions are misjugments and lead to hate and no peaceful treatments. Furthermore, having these kind of notions deprive people of having the chance to really get to know people from not only this country, but also from every country around the world. 

Be peaceful. Stereotypes portray the idea of ignorance and hate within.