COUNTER ARGUMENT: Despite the fact that the internet spreads misinformation. AUTHOR’S OPINION: The internet is excellent for democracy. REASON 1 The internet permits us to exercise freedom of speech. REASON 2 The internet gives us a variety of opinions ...
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Fake news has existed from the very beginning of humanity since humans have a natural sense of not only saying the truth but also the ability to deceive others. Today it still exists and moreover these days when we have different means of spreading whatever we want in a matter of seconds. The impact of fake news can be very significant because it can threaten many things that surround us in this world. For example, government things, journalism, not to mention many other things in our daily lives. According to The Guardian for example, fake news on Facebook relating to President Trump’s election was a kind of boom since most people believed that that election was influenced by Russian government. This kind of news does not affect only adults but it also affects children. Children get misled to do things they do not understand, but they do it just as a matter of curiosity or just because of the living moment. Checking Eyewitness News , one can realize how fake news is...
Teaching political science in the age of Trump. How, for better and worse, the 45th president affects teaching political science in the classroom. By Professor Daniel W. Drezner Well, checking Professor's article one can see that he is not criticizing president Trump, but giving his opinion on the president's actions for he is describing the president as a non sensible person since Trump is not acting intelligently, or as the professor says "it is a mystery" the way in what the president is acting in front of public disputes. However, the professor besides his opinion, he is just trying to explain how his syllabus has been affected by Trump's policies.
Well, talking about Professor Henry A. Giroux and his video on "Where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times" I can say that he is a person who has studied about education, but specially on critical pedagogy. He is talking about political impact on education because nobody can talk about education without talking on political, cultural, social and economic issues in which education is immersed in. He mentions how public education is in danger due to militarization, neoliberalism, and consumerism are affecting education because the states are just worried about production and consuming, but not preoccupied about people and their education for getting a better society in pro of others instead of themselves only. He is just calling attention on students to mobilize and ask for their rights, like the good education right, since this right being disappeared step by step by politicians who do not agree on having a good educational system for all. He is just asking ...
Stella Cottrell (2005) According to this Critical thinker we can get knowledge about understanding what is critical thinking, the benefits that are associated with critical thinking skills as well as personal qualities, know about barriers we can have in the development of the good critical thinking skills as assessing the understanding of critical thinking. The critical thinking is a process which has to see with several skills and attitudes. We cannot trust everything we read, read or hear from other and take that information as the only truth. It is important to have in account other people's positions, points of view as well as their arguments. We need to evaluate all the evidence, weigh up positions and arguments from the counterpart. Also, we need to read between lines, underneath for discovering false or unfair assumptions. We have to be persuasive arguing for "counterattack" our "opponents". Moreover, we need to reflect on issues and draw conclu...
Stephen Brookfield on Creative & Critical Thinking I think that if a person thinks critically, that person is making a process in his/her mind. All of the prior means that no one has to get everything for granted. We have to discern about the things that are presented in front of us, be it political, educational, or anything in life. Of course professor Brookfield mentions about teaching which is our field and we have to be very critical not to believe everything at a first glance. He just brought many things we have to think about when thinking critically. "Someone who thinks critically can... Identify Assumptions Behind Thinking & Actions Check Assumptions for accuracy & Validity Take Informed Action" All of that mean that we have to assume things that are on the background of thinking and resolve having actions to solve whatever we need to. In order to do that we need to be sure about accuracy and if what we are looking at is vali...
Well, according to the videos, we have many kinds of stereotypes. What I think about them is that they depend on the places in the world, the moment we are living at, the different situations we are talking about, etc. On those videos we can see many different places with many questions or issues they are touching or having in account. For example: When they mentioned about Latino people; they were asking for Machismo, jealousy and possessiveness, laziness, lovers and sexy, dancers. Also they were talking about East Asians; if they liked to take selfies all the time, submissiveness of women, if they were focused on studying to get well paid jobs, if women liked white men, mentioned about their taste on k-pop & j-pop music. Third, Eastern and central Europeans; those people reacted to stereotypes. If they drink a lot, they do not smile, men always pay the bills, women are always stressed up, women are gold-diggers and are looking for a rich husband. Fourth, arabs; the...