CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING ROOM

CRITERIA TO ASSESS BLOGGING TASKS Completion of thirteen blogging tasks (either in the instructor´s blog or in the student´s one) Exchange of critical feedback among blog´s readers Evidence of critical and creative thinking skills Textuality (intentionality, acceptability, cohesion, coherence, relevance, informativity and intertextuality)

DIRECTIONS: Along with the other members of your CCT group, analyze Bloom´s  categories of thought processes and write (5) five remembering, undestanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating questions about the paper " Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a Broad-based Pedagogy of Liberation for Animals, Nature, and the Oppressed people of the Earth "written by Richard Kahn. Post these questions in your own blogs. Due: A, 2018

DIRECTIONS: In your blog write a short paper about " Intercultural Communication " by focusing on one of the following issues: Gary Althen, the author of the first core reading, defines values as ideas about what is right and wrong, desirable and undesirable, and so on" (par. 1). Discuss major differences you have noticed in values and assumptions while a foreign country or community that is culturally different from where you grew up" Did anything seem "wrong" or undesirable"? Examine a cultural pattern in your country that yoyu think a foreign visitor should be aware of in order to adjust more easily and avoid intercultural conflics and misunderstandings. Consider such things as values, beliefs, communication styles, and concepts of time. Describe the adjustment process you went through when entering a new cyulture or community. Did you go through any of the common stages described on page 38, including cultural shock? What cross-cultural pr...

DIRECTIONS:  Choose one of the opinion columns, read it and write in your blog a response to the following questions: Whose viewpoint is expressed? What does the author want us to think? What viewpoint is not expressed? Whose voice do we not hear? What is an alternative perspective of the text? Can you think of other questions this text responds to? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/04/05/teaching-political-science-in-the-age-of-trump/?utm_term=.9eefe387bda0 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/opin...

DIRECTIONS:  Write in your instructor´s blog a critical commentary of the lecture “ Where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times”  ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxj87RRtsc&t=178s )  by enhancing one of the following issues: the way education is being shaped by larger corporate and market driven forces, the educative nature of culture and politics, the notion of teachers as public intellectuals, and pedagogy as a project of a substantive democracy and as a form of resistance and educated hope. DUE: , 2018