Fifth task

DIRECTIONS: 

1. Watch the following videoclips about some internationally well known stereotypes, and write in your blog a three-paragraph 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

2. Select one exercise from each of the following list of topics and solve them in your blog by providing a detailed explanation of your answer. Please, include the prompt (instruction), the passage and your explained answer. 

TOPICS: 

• Underlying assumptions (p. 87)
• Implicit assumptions used as reasons (p. 90) 
• False premises (p. 92)
• Implicit arguments (p. 94) 
• Stereotypes (p. 97)
• Assuming causal links (p. 106) 
• Identifying the nature of the link (p. 108)
• False analogies (p. 113)

Fourth task

DIRECTIONS: Read ONE of the following opinion columns and the respective comments from its readers, and identify an example (from the text OR from people's comments) 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

Due date: April 22nd 

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 date: April 8th

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 date: April 8th

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.