EIGHTH TASK

DIRECTIONS: Read carefully “Writing argumentative essays” by clicking on http://www.logicstudent.com/intro/tutorial/preface.htm.  Make sure you carry out the suggested tasks for a better comprehension of the way you are expected to write an argumentative essay.

Decide on a particular debatable question you would like to focus on, and write in your blog an initial outline of your final essay.

Write in your blog a first draft of your final argumentative essay by taking the question and the outline you previously posed into account.

Guidelines for the final CCT essay:

• It must be an argumentative essay
• It must make reference to the main concepts reviewed throughout the CCT course
• It should be approached as “process writing”, i.e., with evidence of basic issues such as an initial outline, a first draft, peer editing and final version
• It must have a minimum of 2,000 words
•  It must include at least 8 credible, relevant and current sources to support your arguments and counter-arguments
• It must be typed and follow APA style style in regard to format, in-text citations and references
• Plagiarism will be penalized.

DUE:  October 22nd, 2018.

SEVENTH TASK

DIRECTIONS:  Based on the following article taken from The Guardian, write in your blog a  commentary answering the following question: How do you think we could empower our Colombian students to critically spot fake news? Remember to include some authors' contributions to support your ideas.


https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/oct/17/fake-news-improved-critical-literacy-skills-teaching-young-people

SIXTH TASK

DIRECTIONS: Write in your blog a critical commentary of the lecture "Where is the OUtrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxj87RRtsc ) by enhancing the way education is being shaped by larger corporate and market driven forces, the role of critical pedagogy in the traditional spheres of schooling and in contemporary politics, the educative nature of culture and politics, the role of teachers as public intellectuals, and pedagogy as a project of a substantive edmocracy and as a form of resistance and educated hope.

FIFTH TASK

DIRECTIONS: Watch the following videoclips about some internationally well known stereotypes, and write in your blog a reflection about stereotyping and ways of coping with it by making particular reference to the Colombian ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqY3nN4Et7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNE_JLDuH8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_hsR2jh90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb-u64vtF-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wy1Ab6-lfE

FOURTH TASK

DIRECTIONS: Read ONE of the following opinion columns and the respective comments from its readers, and identify an example, if any, of the following critical thinking skills: a position or point of view, an argument, an explanation, an agreement, a disagreement, a description, a summary, an introduction, background information and a conclusion. To be done in your personal critical and creative thinking blog.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/04/05/teaching-political-science-in-the-age-of-trump/?utm_term=.9eefe387bda0

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/veganism-intensively-farmed-meat-dairy-soya-maize

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/my-patients-are-dying-but-its-their-right-to-keep-fighting/2018/08/24/487c71ba-809a-11e8-b660-4d0f9f0351f1_story.html?utm_term=.c448ff9267ee

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/04/01/why-youre-bad-at-fact-checking-those-april-fools-day-pranks/?utm_term=.e3a48a595e9a

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/zuckerberg-facebook-privacy-congress.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/chimps-legal-personhood.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/04/martin-luther-king-how-a-rebel-leader-was-lost-to-history

THIRD TASK

DIRECTIONS: Watch the lecture of Stephen Brookfield on Creative and Creative Thinking and make a summary of it in your own blog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8umk4w8kB8

DUE: August 13th, 2018

SECOND TASK

DIRECTIONS: In your own blog carry out the reflection tasks proposed by Stella Cottrell (2005) in her paper "What is critical thinking?" 

DUE: August 13th, 2018

FIRST TASK

DIRECTIONS: After having read "What is critical thinking?" written by Stella Cottrell (2005), and based on the initial tasks conducted in class, write in this blog your initial notions of Critical and Creative Thinking.

DUE: August 13th, 2018