Critical and Creative Thinking

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...

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...

   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...