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.