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