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DRAFT 1 “Learning to think in critically, analytical, and evaluative ways means using mental processes such as attention, categorization, selection, and judgment”. Stella Cottrel (2005). The implementation of critical thinking skills can be meaningful for students at the school . Since students at the school have been pointed out as “receptive”, there might be complications because the truth is never absolute and knowledge is changeable, it always evolves over time . Therefore, the implementation of critical thinking skills at the high school might have a remarkable impact on students because they will be more autonomous when analyzing data, they can identify better what is reliable from what is not and become able to express themselves coherently in front of other people. This type of improvement for education aims at educating people for the future, reinforcing people’s capacity to brain-process development, and making people aware of what is really happening in order to m...
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Question:  Does the enhancement of critical thinking help students to succeed in their duties? Thesis:  The implementation of critical thinking skills can be meaningful for students at the school . Introduction Hook/Topic sentence:  “Learning to think in critically, analytical, and evaluative ways means using mental processes such as attention, categorization, selection, and judgment”. Stella Cottrel (2005) Background information:  Since students at the school have been pointed out as “receptive”, there might be complications because the truth is never absolute and knowledge is changeable, it always evolves over time . Thesis:  The implementation of critical thinking skills at the high school might have a remarkable impact on students because they will be more autonomous when analyzing data, they can identify better what is reliable from what is not and become able to express themselves coherently in front of other people. Body (1)...
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Seventh Task

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Fake news seem to be a remarkable problem nowadays. Every internet user, television watcher, newspaper reader, or radio listener among others, might consider developing some critical literacy skills in order to differentiate fact from fiction. There are certain aspects in which a person can learn to differ what is a fact and what is fiction. Regarding fake news popularity, it has been demonstrated that children are more likely to believe everything they read online as a truth. This becomes a problem in the way that homework or projects they may have will be vague and supported by unreal data. Children need to improve reading comprehension in the way the acquire knowledge from “reliable” sources. Therefore, teachers all over the world have the meaningful task of teaching their students to read, to comprehend, to separate reality from fantasy, and much more. Indeed, this may be accomplished by reading a wide range of texts for different purposes, learning about inference, a...
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Lecture "Where is the OUtrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times" (Sixth Task)

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Critical Commentary Critical thinking is kind of banned according to this theory of pedagogy. Since every industry needs are more important than the economy itself, it is very important for educational institutions to provide and please those companies with the “demand” they have. In this sense, larger corporate and market driven forces control the educational system by stating which job is important and which one is irrelevant for society. Therefore, Universities would graduate only scientists, engineers and business people as an answer to this demand. Public schools would be done away, as well as social sciences, arts and all of those ones considered useless when producing money. In other words, there is a kind of mattress for the economy, which is all the engineering, medicine, business sectors, the rest are social sciences and arts, which are the top of the pyramid here, but what would happen if they disappear? Well, studies according to human behavior, the human m...
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Stereotypes

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   Different cultures, distinct behaviors     The world is a huge place where people have spread their beliefs , traditions, religions, ways of producing food and much more concepts regarding the human existence on earth. Therefore, around the world exist many cultures which have their own knowledge of how this planet work . Furthermore, since these civilizations manage to survive, they have developed certain characteristic manners which differentiate them from the others. People are different in every single aspect, beginning with the fact that every person has a different context, brain, place to live, etc. However, as time passes by, certain cultures, gain specific reputations which are most commonly called stereotypes. In this sense, there are some stereotypes which seem to be the most famous in the world. Firstly, Latinos. These “human species” is known for being excellent dancers, “pa...
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Fourth Task Critical And Creative Thinking

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If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer Isabella Tree Comments 1.      What Isabella and her husband have done at Knepp is beautiful. But we simply cannot use it as a general justification for eating meat. The Knepp estate supplies 0.0075% of the beef the UK eats, and there is nowhere else like it. So what if everywhere was like Knepp, producing 54kg of meat/hectare? The UK's 17.2m ha of farmland would produce slightly less beef than the UK eats. And nothing else. Knepp is wonderful. But as a general model it's a formula for starvation. As you know, I strongly support rewilding - of infertile and unproductive land. I do not support rewilding as a substitute for productive crop-growing. The amazing thing about a plant-based diet is that it uses far less land, releasing more for rewilding. According to the estimates by Simon Fairlie (himself a small livestock keeper), a vegan diet could feed all the UK's people on just 3m hectares of land. A...
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SUMMARY OF THE LECTURE BY STEPHEN BROOKFIELD

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SUMMARY OF THE LECTURE BY STEPHEN BROOKFIELD ON CREATIVE AND CREATIVE THINKING The lecture of Stephen Brookfield, author of " Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question their Assumptions"  (Jossey Bass 2011), delivered the keynote address at the 2012 DePaul University Teaching Commons Fall Forum. In his presentation, Dr. Brookfield explains how university instructors can challenge students' assumptions and model the exploration of alternative perspectives. He also presents several practical activities that encourage creative and critical thinking in the classroom. Indeed, a person who thinks critically is able to: Identify assumptions behind thinking and actions Check assumptions for accuracy and validity Take informed action In addition he pointed out that an informed action is one based on evidence/experience that can be justified, an action that has its assumptions known and checked, something that stands a chance of a...
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